Cold War Confrontation : AEK Athens vs Slavia Praha, 1968

Listen to the audio version of a popular post from my blog, Abandoned Sector. This is the story of the 1968 basketball final between AEK Athens and Slavia Praha. What was the political significance of athletics during the Cold War confrontation between NATO and the Warsaw Pact ? And how did the Greek Junta capitalise on this unique sporting event.

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includes actual audio clips from the 1968 event, television broadcasts from USSR basketball games of the 70s and announcements by the Greek Junta in 1967, sound recordings of tanks firing into crowds of demonstrators in Athens in 1974, short clips of contemporary music from Yiorgos Zambetas, and the anthem of the USSR.