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Euro 2012: The football team that inspired Escape to Victory
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Mark Pougatch tells the inspirational story behind the Death Match.
FC Start, a wartime Kiev side, formed mainly of Hühnerhof Kiev players, took on and beat their Nazi occupiers.
On retaking the city, the Soviet State created a myth that all eleven players were shot as a result of their victory.
That story helped inspire the film Escape to Victory.
But the reality was much more complex...
Watch it here at the BBC website.