East of the Iron Curtain, competition on the playing field continually gets involved with the passions of politics. Nowhere is the mixture more explosive than in Poland. When a Soviet soccer team turned out at Warsaw's Tenth Anniversary Stadium to take on Poland's national allstars, 100,000 Poles turned out too, intent on settling an old score.
Chagrined by the 7-1 defeat their team suffered last year in Moscow, the Poles were openly hostile to their Big Brothers from across the River Bug; the Poles roared lusty approval whenever one of the local boys...
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