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Hello.

In the traditional
motion picture story,

the villains are
usually defeated,

the ending is a happy one.

I can make no such promise for the
picture you're about to watch.

The story isn't over.

You, in the audience, are
part of the conflict.

What has happened so far

and what is happening now
is far from encouraging.

How we meet the Communist
challenge depends on you.

We are united in detesting
Communist slavery.

The Soviets are the
best team in the world.

Hockey proved that the Soviet
system was the best system.

When the Big Red Machine gets
rolling, they're mighty hard to stop.

Their target is us.

Our institutions, our
families, our children.

The Soviets beginning to
create their attack...

Brilliant play!

Although they don't
show emotion,

let's face it, they are a
microcosm of their society.

You talk about a dynasty!

This is a bona fide superstar.

Maybe best in the world.

Slava Fetisov, one of the greatest
defense men in the history...

Fetisov, centered in front.
They score!

They were the totalitarian team.

The KGB guys were always there.

And it is sheer folly for us not to make
every conceivable preparation to win.

Okay, I'd just like, kind
of, a few things about...

Because, basically, what I'm
trying to get in the film is

what it was like to live
in the Soviet Union.

And...

Yeah, and describe
your feeling about...

I'm busy now. Hold on.
I've got some business.

Okay.

My point is that
American audiences

don't really understand the
things that people didn't have

or even the good things.

But what are some things that you can say, like,
"We had to wait in line, or we had to..."

That's a cliché, but, "We had
to do this, we had to do that."

Travel, you know.

Just basic things that we
take for granted these days.

Like, this is... "Look, we couldn't travel.
We couldn't..." You know, whatever.

I was born in the
Soviet Union in '58.

It was 13 years after
World War ll was over.

The whole country was ruined.

We lost 20 million people.

It's a lot.

We was living in
Stalin's buildings.

Probably a 400 square
foot apartment.

No running water, no
toilets, three families.

It was a pretty rough lifestyle.

I was a happy kid.

I play a game. I play hockey.

Pucks was empty cans
and stuff like that.

But, we had fun.

Our heroes played for the Red
Army Club, for the national team.

Hockey was the most popular
sport in the Soviet Union

because the Soviet hockey team

represented the peak of what
the Soviet Union had achieved.

And was proof that the Soviet
system was the best system.

It was politics, really.

My mom and dad, they probably
collected for two years.

They bought for me gloves,
helmet, and the skates.

On the black market, it
probably cost 250 rubles.

It was big money for
a Soviet family.

There was a huge
line of the boys.

With the sticks.
With the skates.

With the parents. With
the grandparents.

It's unbelievable. It's
probably 3-4 miles long.

When it was decided that
hockey would be the thing,

money, everything
went into that.

They had a very
well-organized system.

I mean, from childhood to...

They really picked out the
best of the best of the best.

And this was a
nationwide system.

I was 9 years old.

I stayed in line
probably 7 or 8 hours.

I was exhausted.

I got no chance.

They said, "Thank you very much.
Come again next year."

So I practiced 3
or 4 times a day.

Finally, they said I was good
enough to make the team.

I was so proud to
play for Red Army.

Skate with no fear.

We'll give you exercises
no one has ever seen.

You'll be juggling your sticks,

twisting them around your head.

Where's the smile?
You're playing hockey!

Jump! Quick!

Tarasov was the father
of the Soviet system.

Great!

And the head coach
of the Red Army.

You'll become great
hockey players!

And great men!

This man played a big
role in my life.

I was Red Army in my heart.

I came there. I
was 10 years old.

Tarasov, he developed
the program.

He wrote a few books
about hockey.

These books laid next to my
bed since I was a little kid.

He described the game
in a very simple way.

Hockey is an aggressive game.

It's not like tennis, right?

So I wouldn't say
that the North...

The Americans, the Canadians are
more aggressive than the Russians.

I wouldn't say that.

But I do think that there
was a different concept

of how you play the game.

Tarasov, who was an
extremely creative man,

he saw hockey as this
amazingly intricate game

of passing the puck.

The Soviets play more of a
finessed, improvisational game...

And they could cut and
weave beautifully.

Their passing game was an
intricate, artistic tapestry,

which we didn't see over here.

We emphasized everything in
a unit, of a collective.

The puck carrier was the
servant of the other players.

Our training camps
were together.

My chess team and the
national hockey team.

They would often come to me

if they had questions on
psychological training.

He had theories of the way the game
should be played like a chess game.

He studied the training
of the Bolshoi,

and he applied it to hockey.

Look at these dances, eh?

It's like the boogie woogie!

Sport is an art form.

That's what Tarasov thought.

Creativity, a vivid
mind, and constant

thinking are needed
for greatness.

My father was not
just a hockey coach.

He was a great mentor.

He could see the potential
in a young person.

He developed my patriotism.

For us, it's very important.

For me since I was ten, it was
very important what was in front.

The name of my team, my country.

I belong to the great nation.

If you wear the
national team uniform,

that's your duty.
To do your best.

To represent your country.

For the Soviets, sports were,
in a way, a kind of warfare.

The game, for them,
wasn't just a game.

It was also part of what you
would call propaganda, actually.

Making it very clear
that we're the best,

and we're the best because
of the Soviet system,

because of socialism.

That's why we're the best.

At the moment, you
are ahead of us.

We still have a lot of work
to do to catch up with you.

We'll do that.

We'll catch up.

We'll surpass you.

You may perhaps laugh now,
but when we overtake you,

we'll wave our hand as we say, "Capitalists!
Goodbye! Catch up if you can!"

Have you ever watched hockey?

I like playing with dolls.

Do you know what
these letters mean:

K-G-B?

No.

Yeah, you were born much later.

You didn't have to deal
with this organization.

The Central Red Army
prepare to travel

to North America to
play a series of games

against the best
teams of the West.

One outstanding player we didn't
see in last year's junior series

was the brilliant defense
man Viacheslav Fetisov.

When we crossed the
Atlantic to play against

the best Ontario clubs at
16 years old, I was happy.

There was one flight per week.

Empty because nobody was flying.

Of course, regular
people cannot leave

the country because
that's the system.

I used to go with them
to provide security,

and to prevent any
"escapes" to the West.

The "special people"
who traveled with us,

they give your passport before
you get to passport control,

and they collect the passport
when you cross the border.

The Canadians put us
in a five-star hotel.

Chandeliers. Marble.

One room per player,

and a hundred TV channels.

Hey, right now, Loblaws is
having a huge frozen food sale.

Fruits, vegetables
in the wintertime.

I've never seen
it before for us.

In the Soviet Union, we got
fish only one day a week.

It was "Fish Thursday."

When people went abroad,
especially for the first time,

they were so surprised
by the differences.

We got $48.

They gave us pocket money.

I bought 2 jeans,
3 pair of shorts.

Lots of stuff which just
didn't exist in Moscow.

However, they never saw

the negative side of
the other countries.

Control was intense.

Without such intense control, there
was no point in the work at all.

I was never even thinking
about to defect.

Never. What's that mean?

It meant you were happy.

I'm happy-

Tonight, Team Canada
hosts the Soviet Union.

It's a team we've never seen.

The building was 12,000 people.
Packed.

I was so nervous, y'know?

We got shitty gear.

- Canada versus the Soviet Union.
- Team Canada has a definite edge.

The two things that Team
Canada do the best,

they shoot better and
they skate better.

Canadians, fans and
sportswriters seem to agree

their team will clobber
the Russian pretenders.

We beat them in all 5 games.

Fetisov over the line. Fetisov
trying to get it out in front.

Throws it out in front.
They shoot, they score!

Fetisov back out of the slot.
Fetisov feeds.

Fetisov with a brilliant play.
He scores!

He scores!

- Fetisov. -Fetisov.

And the game is over.

The Soviet Union has
beaten Team Canada.

Viacheslav Fetisov. His
teammates call him Slava.

He's undoubtedly one of
the great young stars

of the Central Red Army team.

It's been said of him that
he can skate backwards

as fast as most defense
men can skate forwards.

Kids growing up now want
to play like Fetisov.

Which players do
you like the best?

- Fetisov. -Fetisov.

Okay, Gabe. Let's go.
Let's go. Work!

You guys are used to doing
nothing over there in America.

Yeah. Okay.

I want to ask you about
Viktor Tikhonov.

How did he become the
national team coach,

and what was your
relationship to him?

Tarasov got in trouble because

Tarasov's team scored a goal,
but it wasn't counted.

And he became so angry,

he actually took his
players off the ice.

Tarasov disagreed and
stopped the game.

We didn't play for 40 minutes.

And there sat Brezhnev.

And Brezhnev was saying,
"What the hell is this?"

They removed him from
the national team.

They punished him for this.

The KGB Chief was a fan
of the Red Army Club.

Tikhonov was his protégé.

You mean, Tikhonov was so powerful in the
Communist Party that they made him...

What do you mean powerful?

I mean, can't
someone just say...

What do you mean powerful?
He's a part of the system.

The Chief of the KGB put
him in the position.

Viktor Tikhonov was disliked or
detested by most of the players.

If we didn't obey, he
would punish us severely.

He would take your salary
or bar you from playing.

Some rather vigorous discussion.

Our friend, Mr. Tikhonov, is ticked
off, if you'll forgive the expression.

Tikhonov's been heavily criticized
by some of the players.

One of them said if he ever
needs a heart transplant,

he wants Viktor's because
Viktor's never used his.

You can see him yelling
at them on the bench,

and, actually, he would hit them in
practice, and smash them in the head.

Hammer them like this.

I'm very volatile.

That's how I am.

And the guys know that.

They know when to approach me.

He's looking a little bit
deranged right there.

Tikhonov was in a very advanced
position from the beginning.

He got the best
team in the world.

He got all kinds of support
from the government.

In the Soviet Union, you
can get any player.

You draft him into the army and
he becomes a Red Army player.

Can Tikhonov be
successful without us?

I don't know.

We being successful without him?

I think so.

Here, suddenly, there was a team that
actually could beat Team Canada.

And the hockey players were
all considered as heroes.

And hockey itself became
tremendously popular in the country.

Can you tell me about
your first Olympics?

Want a story? You got the time?

I come to you this evening to
discuss the extremely important

and rapidly changing
circumstances in Southwest Asia.

Massive Soviet military
forces have invaded

the small, nonaligned sovereign
nation of Afghanistan.

A Soviet-occupied Afghanistan
is a stepping stone

to possible control over much
of the world's oil supplies.

It is a deliberate effort of a
powerful, atheistic government

to subjugate an independent
Islamic people.

Heavy fighting continues
in Afghanistan.

With invading Soviet troops
in parts of the country,

world indignation at the apparent
Soviet takeover is coming to a head.

Cold War passions were
running very, very hot.

And then, the United States
happened to be hosting

the Olympic Games
at Lake Placid.

They had this Cold War
political flavor to it.

The David versus Goliath
match up featuring

a US team comprised of
inexperienced college players

going up against a
veteran Soviet team

widely regarded as the best
hockey team in the world.

The United States had
lost an exhibition game

to the Soviets, 10-3, a couple
weeks before the Olympics.

That showed the difference in skill
level between the two teams.

The excitement, the
tension building.

The Olympic Center
filling to capacity.

In a political or nationalistic sense,
I'm sure this game is being viewed

with varying perspectives,
but it is a hockey game.

The United States and the
Soviet Union on a sheet of ice

in Lake Placid, New York.

Here we go, as the
game is underway.

The Soviet Union in red and
the United States in white.

It's been 20 years since an
American team has beat the Soviets.

Pavelich up ahead to Schneider.
Slap shot! Goes in!

A winner!

The United States
has tied the game!

A couple of months ago, would you
have believed this would be possible?

Very careless rebound.

An uncharacteristically
careless rebound by Tretiak.

Here's Tretiak on the bench.

A very uncharacteristic
place for him.

He leaves it for Zhluktov.

Zhluktov, number 22, who
passes it to Makarov.

Craig makes the save.

He shoots, and he scores!

4-3, the United States on top.

Checked by Ramsey.

McClanahan is there. The
puck is still loose.

Eleven seconds. You
got 10 seconds.

The countdown going
on right now.

Morrow up to Silk.

Five seconds left in the game!

Do you believe in miracles? Yes!

Unbelievable!

USA! USA! USA!

USA! USA!

We're number one. We rule.
US rules!

Destiny.

And tell the whole team that we
are extremely proud of them.

They've come through
like true champions.

It was a great win, you
know, for everybody,

and I think it just proves
that our way of life

is the proper way
to continue on.

It was tough.

You better believe the Soviet
authorities are not happy.

The government will certainly be
taking matters into their own hands.

...if they don't see
an opportunity...

What's the price
they pay over there?

Finally, tonight, from overseas,
a story about hockey.

A team in the Soviet Union
is still dwelling on

a championship lost.

There have been
some changes made.

After the Olympic games,

Tikhonov fired the veterans.

It's wrong.

All these guys, all
these supporting staff,

this is the successful team.

Not him.

After that game, the
workload became tremendous.

There were players
who pissed blood.

We practiced four times a
day in the summertime.

Four times.

We're working at a
heart rate of 220.

Can you imagine? 220.

Players had to live in
these hockey camps,

isolated 11 months of the year.

And they would get out maybe
one weekend every month.

You win by being
merciless in training.

The coach must perpetuate
this tradition.

A coach must find a
player's pressure

points to achieve
maximum results.

It's the carrot and the stick,
like an animal trainer.

To get masterpieces
from the beasts,

you have to force
them a little bit.

Did I respect him?

As my coach? Yes.

As a person? No.

The Soviets are back after
that American defeat,

back in 1980 at Lake Placid.

Well, there aren't many
left from that 1980 team.

Fetisov, a couple of
their superstars remain,

but the rest of the team has
been completely rebuilt.

You have to be born a goalie.

I am a destroyer.

I destroy the plans
of the adversary.

Vladislav Tretiak in the net.

The best goalie in the world.

Tretiak is almost unbeatable.

The greatest goaltender
the game has ever seen.

Tikhonov was given
ready-to-use material.

Tarasov had created stars.

It was to his credit that
he created a five-man unit.

They were the best.

...are the strike force
of the Soviet team.

When the five got together,
no one knew how to play them.

At left wing, number
24, Sergei Makarov.

He was the most dangerous
player in the world.

The mastery and the
wizardry of Makarov,

who hung onto that puck
and then just gave it.

He can make the goal
from nowhere, anytime.

He scored more goals than
anybody in our hockey history.

And they score!

At right wing, number
nine, Vladimir Krutov.

He was a Russian tank.

Krutov here, only 5'9",

but he weighs almost 200 pounds.

He was the soul of
the five-man unit.

At center, number
11, Igor Larionov.

Igor was the professor.

I've got a question. Why
was he "the professor"?

Because he was skinny like that.

Not a professor, maybe nerd.

Skinny but tough.

It kind of misleads
lots of guys.

Number seven, Alexei Kasatonov.

He was my best friend.

Seven and two, Fetisov
and Kasatonov.

They've played
together for so long

that they know each other's
moves instinctively.

And when one goes in, the
other kind of trails back,

and it just works for them.

Fetisov to Kasatonov.

Shoots, he scores!

He was teammate.
He was roommate.

Alex became my younger brother.

My mom cooked for him,

and my grandpa was
like his grandpa.

It's tough to find any closer
relationship between two men.

Alex is probably the best all-around
defense men ever to play the game.

I believe he (Slava) was the best defense
man in the history of world hockey.

Number two, Viacheslav Fetisov.

Slava was our leader, of course.

In the way he skated,
his character.

And he gets leveled by Fetisov.

Fetisov showing
that good strength.

6'1", 205 pounds.
He's no small player.

Tikhonov came from the
Politburo and said:

"Slava, I got good news.

"You're going to be captain
of the Soviet National Team."

I said, "Thank
you, but I'm not."

He said, "You stupid?"

I said, "I'm not."

But when I talked to the guys,

they said, "We want you
to be our captain."

I said, "Okay."

Why they choose
me, I don't know.

But I become the youngest ever
captain of the national team.

In Soviet hockey, the
lines stay together.

Five-man unit.

They like to keep the line and
the two defense men together

for as long as
they possibly can.

We were great friends
in real life.

I tell you, they were good people,
kind and always ready to help.

We never let each other down.

What were they like
as individuals?

We were all practically
the same, you know?

We'd celebrate the birthdays,
the family things.

We went to restaurants together.
We would spend vacation time.

We were all the same.

But did they read, have hobbies?

What were their personalities?

We were the same.

Why are you asking
me the same thing?

They just clicked
from the get-go.

They had a lot of confidence in each
other, and they had a lot of pride.

And those players will go down in history as one
of the greatest five-man units of all time.

They had a sixth
sense about them.

They had eyes in the
back of their head.

Sometimes you feel
without a look.

Your partner must be there.

The Soviets really
perfected the weave.

They move like one body.

Holy cow, what a
play by the Soviets!

Fetisov was number
two in scoring,

even though he was a defender.

He would go forward and
Makarov would draw back.

They score!

Everything was like this.

The opponents did not
know who to cover.

Circling back, Fetisov,
Larionov, Makarov.

He scores!

The goals that they scored
would be highlight reel goals.

They all touched the puck.

The skill level of that
team was astounding.

They elevated hockey
to an art form.

No one could hold them back.

What they did on the ice...

Yes, they were the best.

The Soviet Union has
defeated Team Canada

8-1 in the Canada Cup.

And this crowd here at the
Forum has gone very quiet

as Scotty Bowman looks on.

We had Wayne Gretzky, Guy
Lafleur, Gilbert Perreault.

But they whipped us so bad.

We didn't expect it.

They have beaten the
Islanders, the Boston Bruins,

and now the Jersey Devils.

A Soviet team has defeated

the defending Stanley Cup champion.
The first time ever.

They've outscored the
opposition 42-5.

The Soviets are the
best team in the world.

Gold medal, give it to the Russians.
Let them go home.

- You just don't see how it can
get any better. -He scores!

Well, you know, the
Russians are so darn good.

One man and a goalie to beat.

Drops it back. Krutov scores.

That's how it's done.

You'll not see any nicer
than that, folks.

You just can't compete.

It's just too difficult.

When the Big Red Machine gets
rolling, they're mighty hard to stop.

This is the big one.

So, we are now into
the gold medal match.

It's Czechoslovakia
against the Soviet Union.

For the Soviets, it's
very, very important

because they didn't take that
medal in Lake Placid in 1980.

And if the Czechs take
it from them this time,

there will really be a
shake-up in Soviet hockey.

This is Larionov, number 11.

Drops it back. Getting set.

Here's Kasatonov.

Back to Larionov.

Larionov is checked.

Krutov has it in behind the net.

Makarov is standing right
in front of the goal.

Here's Krutov.

He gets it back, now to Fetisov.

Fetisov setting up.
Slides it in front.

Krutov scores!

Krutov! And it's 2-0
for the Soviets!

It was the greatest
moment in my life.

My childhood dream come true.

I got this gold medal.

I was the happiest
man in the world.

My brother, his
name was Anatoly.

I think he would be one of the best
forwards ever to play the game.

He was like a son to me.

We got almost 10 years apart.

He was killed in a car
accident in 1985.

I was driving the car.

To be in a situation like that,

I didn't want to live.

I share everything
they go through.

All the training, all
happiness and sadness.

Losses and victories,
all the positive,

and the negative, too.

Andrei Khomutov found out his
father was going to die soon.

He came to him and said,

"Viktor, can you let me
go to see my father?"

He said, "No.

"You have to get ready
for the next game."

Andrei never saw
his father again.

This was tough to
imagine for me,

that Tikhonov can do
something like that.

The players often ask,
"What is this all for?

"Why get maximum scores?

"Maybe we should rest a little."

It's absurd.

They was eleven months at camp.

Training camp.

And thirty-six nights,
they was home.

They never get out of that camp.

We always fight against Tikhonov
to let us live at home.

But he said, "This is
the style of my team.

"And this is the style of Soviet
sport in the Soviet Union."

I'm by myself in the apartment.

And when he talks on
the phone with me,

it's like lines
staying behind him,

and everybody listening.

Because it's one phone and
it's like twenty-five guys.

We get together, the Russian 5,

and said, "Can we lose the
World Championships next?

"Maybe they'll kick his
ass out of the team.

"And we can live a better life."

I'm telling you, so many
times we asked ourselves,

"Why are you suffering so much?

"Why play for a guy who doesn't
respect us as a human being?"

In the Soviet period,

the individual had to
obey very strictly

and had no say.

And if he tried to have a say,
that could end his career.

So many competitions and
you are never home.

At first, I'd get home and
Dima wouldn't recognize me.

I'd ask him, "Where's your dad?"

And he would show
me photographs.

Your youth is wasted.

New Year's Eve,
holidays, birthdays...

You're always alone
with the team,

without your wife and kids.
It's a tough life.

At 32, I felt old and worn out.

I wanted freedom to train on
my own, or to stop playing.

So I was forced to quit.

There was a lot of
disillusionment

that was going on in
the Soviet Union.

For over 70 years,

the Soviet Union was
a closed society

and the Iron Curtain
was a reality.

The belief that
existed for so long

that had really held
the country together,

the profound, idealistic belief
that was part of it, dissipated.

Dear comrades, delegates,

a new democratic era is upon us.

Do you think people realized that
this was the end of the Cold War?

What's the Cold War?

The Cold War.

No, I know. What's the Cold War?

What's it about?

About the money?

About business?

Sure, probably. You think so?

For resources?

I think so.

Nothing else?

I think it's just about fear.

Fear of what?

National security,
probably, right?

That's bullshit.

The sports world has heard
the Russians are coming.

That is, that some of those
world-class athletes

that are in the Soviet Union
will be allowed to come west,

turn pro and play
for big rubles.

Soviet athletes are
in big demand.

New Jersey Devils have offered
defense man Viacheslav Fetisov

a half million dollars for just
one year along the blue line.

We think that they will raise
the level of excellence

in the entire National
Hockey League.

The only reason these well-dressed
and well-off hockey bosses

even consider selling players

is that they have been
told by the Politburo

their big subsidies must be cut.

The sale of defense man Fetisov
to New Jersey is one way out.

It is not something those
officials want to do,

but in this clash of
capitalism and socialism,

money is proving to
be the big lure.

And if you're a Soviet player, and
you see what's ahead for yourself,

except more of this dreariness.

And then they realized, "My God.

"Look what these teams and the players
have in the NHL and the money they get,

"and the automobiles and the
houses and the vacations."

Then you're gonna want like
hell to get out of there.

Tikhonov came from the Politburo
to the training camp and said,

"Slava, if you do good in Calgary, in
the Olympics, you win the gold medal,

"you're gonna be the first Soviet player
who go play in National Hockey League."

I said, "Okay."

The face of the Soviet
Union, Slava Fetisov.

There's the captain
of the Soviet Union,

Viacheslav Fetisov,

representing his team
on the podium here.

I was so happy-

When I landed in Moscow, they
called me to the Ministry.

They give me in the
Kremlin, the Lenin Award.

The biggest award
in the country.

And then I was called for
private talk between three men:

The Minister of Sport,
Tikhonov and myself.

When the Minister said, "Slava,
finally you deserve it.

"We'll let you go. Good luck
and I wish you all the best."

And he said, "Am I
right, Viktor?"

You know what Viktor said?

"Yeah, you're right. But I
need him for another year.

"Because we can't replace him."

He said, "January 2nd, we got the
Super Series against New Jersey.

"And we promise you after the
game against New Jersey,

"you're going to finish
the season in the NHL."

Fetisov goes back to get it.

Top scoring defense man.

Four times Player of the Year.

Fetisov right there, he scores!

It's a four-to-nothing
Red Army lead.

Is Slava Fetisov
coming to the NHL?

It's possible for
him to stay here.

NOW?

Not now, eventually.

See what happened? Publicly
he said, "He can go."

But inside, not behind my back,
in front of me he said, "No."

What's the current
status of this thing?

We keep hearing yes, and then we
hear no, and then we hear maybe.

Well, really, the
status right now,

it relies in the hands of
the Soviet government.

Slava Fetisov wants to be here,

and he wants to play in the
National Hockey League.

But really, we have no control
over what is happening right now.

Neither has Fetisov.

Lou Lamoriello showed
me around New York.

He said, "Slava, I learned today
they'll never let you go."

He said, "This is the life.

"You should stay here."

So when Lou asked you to
defect, did you consider it?

No.

I cannot run away
from my country.

I cannot

do something illegal.

When I get back, I called
a press conference.

And I said, "I'm never going to
play for the Tikhonov team anymore.

"Because they cheated me."

The day his article went out,

our phone stopped ringing.

People who we know
stopped talking to us.

The sports facilities
in the country,

nobody let me in.

You come there, the people
know you, they admire you.

They put their head
down and said,

"No, Slava. You cannot
come and skate here.

"No, if we let you skate,
they are going to kill me."

Agents were placed in
their social circle

so we could know the
situation from within.

These people were just
pawns on a chess board.

When you sit at
home and you know

some car is sitting down
near your entrance,

and they're going to follow you,

and they're going to try to listen. If you
meet someone, what do you talk about?

What's the worst they could do?

Anything- Anything-

If they try to put Slava in
prison, what do you think?

Did they do anything?

In Kiev. In Kiev.

What happened?

What happened...

They tried to put Slava in a car and
take him to the police station.

They put the cuffs on him, and
cuffed him to the battery.

And they just beat him up until
four o'clock in the morning.

When they called Tikhonov, and
Tikhonov came and picked him up.

That's when we heard when
Tikhonov was screaming,

"Do anything, just
put him in prison.

"Just don't let him
out of the country."

if Slava will not be included on the
team, what will be your next move?

Most likely, we'll all refuse to
participate in the world championship.

You are three. Who
else will join you?

There are others who
will support us.

Krutov stood up for me,

with my teammates
Makarov and Larionov.

Krutov has always been quiet.

When you see the
situation get crucial,

he steps up.

And from him, when
he said something,

it sounds different when you're not
talking all the time. It's very powerful.

Do you mind, kind of,
just telling the story?

It's very important because
it's a very personal...

It was that.

Slava was leaving.

I stayed to play.

It was a big
surprise for me that

Alex Kasatonov didn't
go with the boys on TV.

You know, my best friend

said, "No, I'm not going."

So it was a big surprise.

It's a very long story.

Yeah, but you know...

It's the story of our
country, I think.

He said publicly I wasn't
right to leave the team.

He took the position of Coach
Tikhonov in this situation.

That's the funniest part.

You were best friends. I mean, I
want to know, kind of... You know...

It's not the time.

Sorry.

To be continued.

Next question.

A special department was
created in the KGB.

Do you want to say anything?

Take your glasses off.

You can't even see
me in dark glasses.

Come on, they are transparent.

I can see you well.

Look at the sun.

I just did. I looked.

I have sunglasses, too.

They are white.

Like this color white.

Continue.

Continue.

When did things
start to go wrong?

Maybe it was

the incident with Mogilny.

Number 14 is Alexander Mogilny.

Many NHL scouts say

he is the best 19-year-old
hockey player in the world.

I asked Mogilny if he would consider
playing in the National Hockey League.

I'd like, but I suppose
that it's more interesting

to play in the Soviet Union.

All right, what if we offer
you a million dollars cash?

Then would you come
and play in the NHL?

The Soviet team was over
there playing a tournament,

and they wake up one morning,
and Mogilny was gone.

His defection began
with a phone call

to the managers of the
NHL's Buffalo Sabres.

Were you in Sweden
to bring him out?

No. What do you mean, was I
in Sweden to bring him out?

I was in Sweden to meet
him, at his request.

Mogilny was
considered a traitor,

especially because he
was in the Soviet Army.

He escaped, as they say.

But it was kind of...

How do you say... Illegal.

Here, people enjoy life.

Everyone has their own
home, their own cars.

But that's not the point.

Here, people live
for themselves.

And there, I lived
like a homeless dog.

Why did the government care so much
if the hockey players defected?

Well...

It's difficult to speak
about hockey separately.

It wouldn't be like,

"Oh my God! Hockey
players are leaving!"

The regime wouldn't
put it like that.

One defection could
lead to a wave.

This was a big threat
to Soviet power.

Politically, every time
something like that happened,

it was used in the media,

so it was a victory for the West

and a loss for the Soviet Union.

Authorities in Soviet sports
and hockey authorities,

they realized that it's much better
for themselves, for the system,

to allow the players
to go to the NHL

without the opportunity
to escape,

just because it's damaged
the image of the country.

Then they start to negotiate.

They said, "Okay, it looks like the
high authority agreed to let you go.

"But you have to understand.
You'll make $1000 a month.

"Doesn't matter how
much is your contract.

"You're gonna bring money
back to the embassy."

I said, "No way. I'm not going.

"I mean, are you crazy?"

They said, "You crazy."

I said, "Okay."

They called me in a couple
days and said, "Slava,

"you got special permission
from the Politburo.

"Because you were so good for
hockey, for the national team,

"and you were captain, we'll
give you 10% of your salary.

"This is a special offer
made especially for you.

"Nobody has to know
about the 10%."

I Said, "NO-n

Then it was 20%.

Then it was 25%.

They called my mom. They called my wife.
They tried to scare them.

Momma said, "Son, the people called me.
They explained you got no chance.

"They'll not let you go. They'll
make something bad for you.

"You should not fight anymore."

And Igor Larionov
signed a deal and left.

The Russians are here.

Igor Larionov, center,

Vancouver, a playmaker.

The NHL is paying the
Soviet Union to allow Igor

and other Soviet
veterans to play here.

Soviet players in the NHL

have to turn a large
chunk of their contract

over to their
cash-starved country.

But to the Larionovs,
it's worth it.

In Moscow, things were
completely different.

If they lost, he would not
be allowed to come home.

He was happy with a 50/50
split with the system.

Who, Igor?

Igor, and Sergei and Vladimir.

They was happy to split 50/50.

I Said, "NO-n

And I was alone.

They said, "What do you want?"

I said, "I want my contract."

The problem is that
this defense man's life

is controlled by the
Soviet Defense Ministry.

Fetisov is an officer in the
army and plays for its top team.

The team is cleared.
Tikhonov has cleared it.

And all they're waiting for
is the Minister of Defense.

Yazov. Dmitry Yazov.

The Minister of Defense.

The second most powerful
man in the country.

They called me to the
Ministry of Defense.

Tried to straighten me out.

They put my uniform on me.

It was a huge, huge office.

He said, "America?
This is my enemy.

"No way you're
going to America."

He said, "You don't wanna play?

"You're not gonna play
anymore, anywhere, anyhow."

Something clicked inside of me.
I have to do something.

I have to provoke some
result out of this visit.

Because I knew I'd
never get back here.

Never.

Even

I said, "Mr. Minister,

"if you don't do what you promised to me,
you're not a Minister. You're not an officer.

"Release me from the army.

"Thank you very much."

I turn and go.

He was screaming, yelling.

"You ----sucker. You try
to play for our enemies?

"You know what I can do with you? I'll send
you to Siberia. You'll never get out."

But I never turned back.

I left.

You know what?

In ten days, they
give me a passport.

And I was free of the Army.

The first multiple working
entrance visa to United States.

Wait a second. Go back.

I don't get why Yazov let you
leave if he was mad at you.

I'm not a historian.

My feeling was the
country tried to change

something because it's
Perestroika time.

But he doesn't want changes.

Everybody was afraid.
It's understandable.

It's like in a dark room,

try to find a dark cat.

You know, it's not funny.

Okay.

You'll go play our
nation's hockey.

Skillful and effective hockey.

You'll be great.

Coach's Corner with Don Cherry.

You look happy.
What's the matter?

You know, I was gonna come on here
and be a good guy, you know, right?

The first show, don't talk about the
Russians, and you know, and all that stuff.

And be all, you know, I go, "We'll
let them come over here." No way!

I don't want them here!

The players don't
want them here.

And you're gonna be sorry
they're over here.

Nobody like me in
the United States.

Nobody knew what I went through.

They would think in clichés.

I'm a bad guy, a communist.

They talk about the Soviets
coming over and play here.

Would some of the players be
a little upset about that?

It would be a touchy
situation, you know,

because you don't like to see
players on your team lose jobs,

and if they come, there's gonna
be two less spots in the lineup.

A shot taken by
Clark on Fetisov,

who's not retaliating.

Fetisov looks like, "You
can't be doing this."

Kind of disbelief when Clark
started swinging at him.

Let's take a look at it again.

When I walk in the wives'
lounge, it was like

I was staying in one corner,

and the rest were staying
in the other corner.

And was looking at me, and
talking in their own language.

I understand nothing
they're talking about.

Looking at me again.

Laughing and looking
and talking.

And I think, "What are
they talking about?"

I have no idea.

The coach hate Russians. See it
when he look at you, he hate you.

How you gonna play for
the guy who hate you

because you're a Soviet?

Hockey over here was a more
brutal form of the game

with elbows...

Sticks high, and
individualistic play.

There was no style.

They're so simple.

They're not creative.

It was the worst
team in the league.

Somebody gets open and
they skate away from you.

And you end up on your ass.

They look at you like you
never played before.

Life challenged me all the time.

All of a sudden, he was drafted
by the New Jersey Devils.

...there, Kasatonov.

Kasatonov, he's a little
overshadowed, I think, by Fetisov.

He's a great hockey player.

Did you tell the coaches, like,
"Listen, I can't play with this guy.

"I mean, I just can't."

Nobody gave a shit about
our relationship.

They sign him. We have to play.

It wasn't friendship anymore.
It wasn't team spirit.

It was kind of competition.

It was tough, trust me.

Fetisov and Kasatonov,

best friends off the ice,
defensive partners on the ice.

I came to the United States
to play the hockey game.

Not to be involved
in this bullshit.

Welcome to the big
leagues, Vladimir.

Krutov hit hard! Down he goes.

The Soviets in the big league
have been having trouble.

They're too old or too slow.

They're too confused out there,
and they tend to get too fancy.

They tend to pass when
they should shoot,

and it gets the
natives restless.

They're not here for
the Bolshoi Ballet.

It's a completely new
experience for me

to play on a losing team.

I ask the fans to be patient.

It didn't work out for
me, staying in the NHL.

But that's okay, I think.

All in all, my life worked out.
I think everything's okay.

When you come from a system

where everything is regimented
every day of your life,

and it was for these
hockey players,

and then you're...

You go to a completely
different environment

where you're supposed
to be able to organize

and run your own life,
you become sort of lost.

I was 36.

And they trade me from
New Jersey to Detroit.

Do you miss Larionov,
Krutov, Makarov?

Of course.

We spent so many years
playing and living together.

You miss the ones
you're close to.

I think, "Oh my God. I
did something wrong.

"You've been successful.
You've always been on top.

"Now you're a loser?"

Do you feel that the
game is more fun here?

I get out of the dressing room
and see my wife by herself.

Crying.

I said, "Why are you crying?"

She said, "Oh, we got
probably our last chance."

I Said, "NO-n

We've got two choices:

To pack the stuff, go back

or to fight through.

Soviet Army tanks in their hundreds
moved onto the streets of Moscow,

but the takeover has not gone
ahead without resistance.

...was something that
certainly wasn't anticipated

in this form, this quickly.

The extent of the changes
and the immediacy of them

certainly were not anticipated.

I hereby resign my post
as President of the USSR.

An end has been put to the
Cold War and the arms race,

and the mad militarization
of this country.

The threat of nuclear
war is over.

I wish everyone all the best.

I knew how good they were. I
mean, I had watched them play.

Bobby, the Soviets, they
never stop skating.

There is constant motion.

Their style of hockey bothered
our goalies and our defense men,

because, you know, you get in
tune to playing a certain way,

and then all of a sudden, the
opposition does something different.

The Canadians are getting
caught up in the Soviet vortex.

We initially had three that
came out about the same time,

Konstantinov,
Fedorov and Kozlov.

We were able to make a trade
and get Igor Larionov.

And once we got the fourth
member of the Russians,

we said, "Let's go
and get one more."

We needed a defense man,
and we got Slava Fetisov.

He was about 37 or 38.

You could say we took
a chance with him.

When they got together

and they designed their
own type of plays,

we were surprised ourselves.

And the Soviet
symphony is tuning up.

They crisscrossed a lot.

And they made a lot of
passes in their own zone.

If they don't see an
opportunity to score,

they turn back with the puck
and develop another attack.

They played a totally
different style.

Together again on the same team.

It was like a fish put
back in the water.

You never know what
they'll do next.

You become younger right
away, and enjoy the game.

Around the arena, Russian often
seems like a second language.

A lot of people
complain about it.

To me, see, I don't... They're
playing for us, and they're good.

No, sir! And he gets
leveled by Fetisov.

I didn't really get to learn the
system as much as I would have liked,

but I just let them do
what they wanted to do.

Scotty comes to the
dressing room and said,

"Guys, I don't know who
teach you to play this way,

"but I wanna ask you one thing.

"Don't change anything."

...on game one of the
Stanley Cup Finals...

I start looking for
Igor right away.

And I said, "lgor,
we'll go together."

It's true American
dream, you know?

Afterwards, I went to Gary Bettman. I
said, "Gary, I need the cup in Moscow."

He said, "You crazy? We'll never
let the cup go to Moscow.

"It's mafia. It's
a bad country."

I said, "Listen, I want
the cup to be in Moscow."

He said, "Slava,
it's impossible."

I said, "What do you
mean impossible?"

It's great to be home.

For me, the Red Army
Club is home, of course.

I started here when
I was 8 years old,

and I left when I was 31.

It's very strange.

When you're born in
the Soviet Union,

and you left one country
and come back to another.

It does not feel
comfortable, you know?

When I get back to Moscow,

it's totally different.

Different mentality.

Different culture.

Different...
Everything's different.

That capitalism has taken root
here is no longer in doubt,

and some people are making
a great deal of money.

But some of the problems
may be getting worse.

In Moscow and Leningrad,

many are turning their hand
at making a fast buck.

Operating outside the
legal boundaries

is often more effective
than operating within them.

Russians don't like the
corruption in this country.

They feel that they're not
protected by the courts.

They feel that the police,
just regular police,

can pretty much do what
they want with you.

Country's got no heroes.
Got no system.

No structure. Nothing.

Everybody runs around
trying to get something.

It's not the way I want to live.

Everything is about the material
side of things: money, finance.

Our country's crisis is
now reflected in hockey.

With the first selection,
the Atlanta Thrashers

are pleased to select, from
the Russian Division I,

Spartak Moscow...

llya Kovalchuk.

Nail Yakupov.

Alexander Ovechkin.

Teams have very little money
to keep players from leaving.

Yo, it's Alexander Ovechkin.
I am going to red carpet.

We kinda forget about
the patriotism.

We are ashamed of
what we were before.

We are gonna test Alexander
Ovechkin's shooting accuracy

by filling up these Russian
dolls with Russian dressing,

and he's gonna drill them
with these hockey pucks.

We lost something.

We lost our pride.

We lost...

Our soul.

But would you rather it be
the Soviet Union again?

You know, like, would
you have rather

that not happened, even
though you kind of left?

Gabe...

It's not a proper question.

I'm a politician now.

I get my feeling twenty
years ago, right?

I was sad.

I played for the country
for many years.

I was proud to play and be
captain of the national team.

When Putin invited
me it was 2002.

It's 11 years it's
no Soviet Union.

President Putin said,
"Slava, it's enough.

"Get back home."

Vladimir Putin gave me the
position of Minister of Sport.

Sport should be a way of life.

I'm a little guy in a big system,
but I try to do my best.

The people who are
running this country,

born in the Soviet Union,
went to Soviet schools,

were members of the Komsomol.

They were created, shaped,
by the Soviet system.

That's who they are.

Much of the problems are
still anchored in that past.

And they're not gonna go away...
Like this.

It's a huge amount of work.

It's twenty hours working day.
Every day.

Y'know, we got lots of problems.

I need to build infrastructure.

I need to find the money.

I need to think about
my people now.

The kids, the veterans...

Try to build something good
out of what's happened.

We built a junior league.

We built 300 new skating arenas.

We brought the Olympic
Games to Sochi.

We are happy to be
back in our country.

I think our country
and people need us.

We went through a lot,

and I'm happy today we
are again like brothers.

Very close friends.

We're friends.

It's very important to get the people you
went through a lot with next to you.

It's better than
finding somebody else.

We're still friends.

And when we played,
we were even closer.

I dream about how we
used to play together.

First, a round of applause
for this great Soviet coach.

The word "great" hardly begins
to describe this great coach!

Unfortunately, Viktor says
he's unable to talk today.

The most important thing for me

is to stress to the kids how
it's important to be teammates.

How important to do
stuff collectively.

To be proud of what
team you play on.

I played 23 professional years.

One thousand eight
hundred plus games.

I never had fun more than playing
with those five guys, together.

When you die, this is
gonna be your legacy.

I know and I appreciate it.
You're a good guy.

I'm lucky to have you.

I think we're both lucky
to have each other.

That's even better.

California boy, and a good guy.

Chicago.