Red Army
Hello.
In the traditional motion picture story,
the villains are usually defeated,
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
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
defensemen 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...
"We had to wait in line, or we had to..."
That's a clich, 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 defenseman
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.
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