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Spartak Moscow Football Disaster

A crush at Spartak football stadium, Moscow, is covered up by the Soviet state.
Witness hears from two men who were there that day in 1982.

In communist era Russia, several hundred people died in a crush at Spartak football stadium in Moscow.

The true number of deaths at the football match was never revealed because of a cover-up of the disaster by the Soviet state, the USSR.

We hear from two men who were in the stadium on the day of the tragedy in 1982.

10 minutes

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Mon 26 Oct 2009 08:50GMT

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  • Mon 26 Oct 2009 00:50GMT
  • Mon 26 Oct 2009 08:50GMT

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