Red Army

The national ice hockey team of the Soviet Union was one of the best in the world at the time. It consisted almost entirely of players from the ZSKA, the ice hockey club of the Red Army. From a young age, disciplined and distinguished by a style of play that emphasized teamwork and "functioning collectively", she was considered proof of the superiority of the socialist system in the middle of the Cold War. As part of the propaganda, the only task of the team was to defeat the West. Slawa Fetissow, the captain, was one of the first to be brought to the USA by NHL clubs with the promise of prosperity and freedom in the wake of perestroika - a change for which he was declared a political enemy at home. But the new beginning in the West was rocky: the way the Soviet athletes played seemed to be unable to function in the American system of stars and individualists ...