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World Service,26 Oct 2009,10 mins

Spartak Moscow Football Disaster

Witness History

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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.

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