"Death Match" in Kyiv

"First National", 2005. The news story tells about the "Death Match" of 1942 between the players of Kyiv's Dynamo and the German team "Flakelf", separating the course of events from Soviet propaganda.

On the video: footage from the film "Third Half"; "Start" stadium; monument to the football players of the "Match of Death"; fragment of a conversation with Vladlen Putistin, son of the match participant Mykhailo Putistin (speaks Russian); Nazi symbols are present in the frame; monument to the football players of Kyiv "Dynamo" — participants of the legendary "Match of Death"; football posters; stand-up by journalist Maksym Drabko.

Commentators: researcher of the history of Dynamo Kyiv Oleksandr Kabanets; head of the Center for the Protection of the Truth of the History of the Great Patriotic War Boryslav Yatsko (speaks in russian).

The plot was written by: Maksym Drabok, Volodymyr Lozenko.

Reference: The so-called Death Match between the local team "Start" and the German "Flakelf" took place in Kyiv in 1942. According to Soviet historians, the Germans shot the Kyiv players for refusing to lose. However, according to research by other scholars, the football players were indeed executed by the occupiers, but not for sporting reasons.