共产主义与足球

BBC Four拍摄的纪录片，谈苏维埃政权如何介入国家运动，东欧的足球场如何成为共产主义政客利用的战场，俄罗斯、匈牙利与前东德共产主义领袖的操控，以及在铁幕背后不愿合作者的一些案例。


　　After the Russian Revolution, the Soviet authorities sought to exercise control over every aspect of social, political and cultural life, including Russia's national sport, football. Throughout the 20th Century, the football grounds of Eastern Europe became battlegrounds as ruthless politicians tried to use football to lend legitimacy to communist rule. In this film, footballers from Russia, Hungary and East Germany recall how the beautiful game was manipulated by ruthless communist leaders, and reveal how the careers of several great footballers from behind the Iron Curtain were destroyed simply because they refused to co-operate with the Eastern Bloc's most brutal totalitarian regimes. The central tale is of the George Best of Russian football, a seventeen-year-old slinky, skilled forward with a teddy boy haircut, Eduard Streltstov, who was the inventor of a back-heeled pass, still known as "The Russian Pelé", whose career was wrecked by the KGB.

旧秩序的残渣总让人脑火，我说的是西方统治秩序安能摧眉折腰事权贵，使我不得开心颜那个年代政治上的压力很重“极”，一个东西太膨胀了西方这种叙事夹杂了太多的水货私货

足球理应无关政治，足球却又逃不开政治。竞技体育带来的快感与满足感，本质上是一种对情感的需求与消费，当权者又怎么会放过这么好的宣传手段呢？小小的足球上记录社会变迁。

这样看来，当年柯奇士普斯卡什的悲剧却是匈牙利人民的一种幸运，若没有这次失败，自由也许不会这么快到来，某宗教真是祸国殃民

"Playing football in a bourgeois way!", what an accusation! Fascism有RM跟Barcelona，Communism有Dynamo和Spartak. Streltsov這類人在Totalitarian regime下基本上就是doomed。。。GDR team也很慘，贏了被人罵為propaganda machine出力。。

没有政治就没有杀戮。莫斯科四家球队之间竟然有着这样的历史渊源。已经超越了一般意义上的德比概念。莫斯科斯巴达。反专制小斗士。

不要上课或写稿的晚上，看这样的纪录片就是最大的享受啊。