![]() ![]() The former Zenit Stadium, where the match had taken place in 1942, was renamed as the FC Start Stadium. ĭespite a KGB dossier expressing concern about the possible "glorification" of the surviving players with known collaborators amongst them, two monuments to their honour were erected in Kyiv in 1971. Five surviving players received the Medal for Battle Merit: Volodymyr Balakin, Makar Honcharenko, Mikhailo Melnik, Vassyl Sukharev, Mikhailo Sviridovsky. In 1965, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded posthumously the Medal "For Courage" to these four Dynamo players murdered by the Germans. The exact number of victims was given: four Dynamo players were murdered by the Germans – the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich, an ethnic Russian, defender Olexi Klimenko and striker Ivan Kuzmenko, who together had played on the vice champion team of 1936, as well as midfielder Mikola Korotkykh, who had left Dynamo in 1939. As a result, the "Death Match" became regarded as a part of Kyiv's war history. Under the rule of Leonid Brezhnev the propaganda of the Communist Party emphasised the heroism of the Soviet population during World War II. The reports about the "Death Match" changed in the mid-sixties. ![]() In the years immediately following the end of World War II, they were initially suspected as having collaborated with the Nazis, and were interrogated and then kept under surveillance by the secret police (NKVD) for several years. The Start players who survived the Nazi occupation did not appear in public. None of these publications mentioned survivors of the match. ![]() The "Death Match" also became a very popular subject of the Soviet press. According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, about 32 million spectators in total saw it in the Soviet cinemas. These two novels provided the inspiration for Yevgeny Karelov's black and white film Third Time (Тreti time). Also in 1958, Piotr Severov and Naum Khalemsky published their novel The Last Duel (Posledni poyedinok). In 1958, he published his novel Alerting Clouds ( Trevozhnye oblaka) about the match. The expression "Death Match" first appeared after the war, in the newspaper Stalinskoye plemya ("Stalin's tribe") on Aug(#164, page 3) where a film script of Aleksandr Borshchagovsky was published. But his report in the newspaper Izvestiya did not mention the football match. In autumn of 1943 after the withdrawal of the German troops from the city of Kyiv and the re-establishment of Soviet administration, writer Lev Kassil was the first to report about the death of Dynamo players murdered by the Germans. The Germans controlled the Ukrainian police, who took part in the hunt for Bolsheviks and Jews. Thousands of inhabitants were deported to Germany for forced labour. Ukrainian youth over 15 years and adults under 60 years old were submitted to labour obligations. The city was under a strict occupation regime a curfew on civilians was enforced, and universities and schools were shut down. In taking Kyiv, the Germans captured over 600,000 Soviet soldiers. Several of the Dynamo Kyiv players who had survived the onslaught found themselves in prisoner-of-war camps. The initial success of the Wehrmacht allowed it to capture the city from the Red Army. Several Dynamo Kyiv players joined the military and went off to fight. The season was never completed, as Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. During the Great Purge in 1938, Piontkovsky, and one of the Dynamo's team creators, Barminsky were targeted, and eventually shot in 1941. Two of Dynamo's players, Pionkovsky and Sviridovsky, were arrested by NKVD agents during an attempt to exchange several cuts of cloth for products and therefore had to work "for the good of the country" for two years in a penal colony. During the Holodomor in 1932–33, half of the team escaped to Ivanovo near Moscow. The team's captain Konstantin Shchegotsky even tried to escape to Dnipropetrovsk, where he played for FC Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk, but was forced to come back. Prior to World War II, Fomin also played for Lokomotyv.īecause players were not getting paid regularly, the football team of Dynamo for some time had a shortage of playing staff (only eight players). Kostiantyn Fomin is known to have participated in repressions against Kharkiv sportsmen of Polish descent during 1935–1936. the Nazis (2008)Ī Kyiv native Georgiy Kuzmin points out in his book Facts and fiction of our football ( Были и небыли нашего футбола) that the first squads of Dynamo Kyiv included a number of regular Cheka members, among whom was Kostiantyn Fomin.
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