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The Kyiv city team Start (Cyrillic: Старт), which represented the city's Bread Factory No.1, played several football games in World War II. The team was composed mostly of former professional footballers of Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kyiv , all of whom were forced to work at the factory under the Nazi occupation authority and were made to ...
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
Only on 2 May 1944, after the return of Soviet regime, a friendly match between Dynamo Kyiv and Spartak Moscow took place at the Dynamo Stadium. From the pre-war (World War II) team there remained Anton Idzkovsky, Mykola Makhynia, Petro Laiko, Pavlo Vinkovatov, Mykola Balakin, Kostyantyn Kalach, including those who participated in the 1942 ...
Before the Second World War, Stephenson had been a member of the Royal Air Force aerobatic team. As officer commanding 19 Squadron, based at RAF Duxford, he was shot down on Sunday, 26 May 1940. He had been flying Spitfire Ia, N3200, coded 'QV', while covering the British evacuation of the Dunkirk beaches, as part of Operation Dynamo. He belly ...
Berlin police said 116 officers suffered injuries from tear-gas use, 28 from assaults and 11 after being hit by pyrotechnics fired by supporters after the fourth-division match at Dynamo’s ground.
The essay represented some of Orwell's own hostile attitude towards the Stalin regime in the Soviet Union, as drawn out by his response to the 1945 tour of Great Britain by the Soviet football team FC Dynamo Moscow. [1] The tour itself was considered groundbreaking and came after the combined Allied victory in World War II.
The first concert to be paired to a game on the tour was Dynamo's game against Legia Warsaw, with two further concerts following. Dynamo's game with Galatasaray was played in the afternoon and did not feature any performances of the Ukrainian singers, and was the only Dynamo friendly in the first phase of the tour to not feature a concert.
The work was used during a World Game in Philadelphia, in the summer of 1980. [citation needed] By 1993, the World Game Institute developed and sold an educational software package called Global Recall, which contained global data, maps, an encyclopedia of world problems, and tools for developing solutions to world problems.