‘War Minus The Shooting’: When Soviet Soccer Took On The Brits After World War II – Analysis

By Tony Wesolowsky*

(RFE/RL) -- Tens of millions of people were dead. Cities and towns lay in rubble months after the bloodiest conflict the world had ever known. With much of Europe still reeling from World War II, it hardly seemed the time for games.

But in November 1945, clubs from Great Britain, the cradle of the...