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CloseThe Stasi's Football Team
15:24October 2, 2015
Berliner FC Dynamo was the football team of the East German secret police, the dreaded Stasi. Alan McDougall (University of Guelph) discusses how BFC Dynamo was able to dominate East German football in part through questionable referee calls and the controversy this created among football fans.
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