The Death Match
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The Death Match (Ukrainian: Матч смерті, Russian: Матч смерти) is a name given in postwar Soviet historiography to the football match played in Kyiv in Reichskommissariat Ukraine (abbreviated RKU) under occupation by Nazi Germany. The Kyiv city team Start (Cyrillic: Старт), which represented the city's Bread Factory No.1, played several football games in World War II. The team was composed mostly of former professional footballers of Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kyiv, all of whom were forced to work at the factory under the Nazi occupation authority and were made to produce bread for German soldiers.
The official poster about the 9 August 1942 match printed by the German administration | |||||||
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Date | 9 August 1942 | ||||||
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Venue | Zenit stadium[lower-alpha 1], Kyiv, Reichskommissariat Ukraine | ||||||
← Start – Flakelf (6 Aug 1942) Start – Rukh (16 Aug 1942) → |
On August 6, 1942, FC Start played the German team Flakelf.[lower-alpha 2] There were an estimated 2,000 spectators in attendance, each paying five karbovanets.