Baron Pierre de Coubertin was convinced that sports “build friendly relationships among peoples,” and imagined the modern Olympic Games as a means of helping to foster peaceful international relations. In the Games’ long history, the athletic competition has also, quite to the contrary, served as a relay for intense geopolitical tensions.
What began as student protests became a rebellion in early November when Prime Minister Imre Nagy announced Hungary’s desire to pull out of the Warsaw Pact, the military alliance formed a year earlier by eight communist countries in Eastern Europe. The USSR responded immediately by deploying a large detachment of the Red Army to Hungary on November 4 to suppress the rebellion.
The draw finally brought the two teams face-to-face in the semi-finals, but the geopolitical tensions overwhelmed the athletic rivalry in the minds of everyone present. “Right from the start of the match, observers could feel that the players were tense, short-tempered, vengeful, and obviously more interested in distributing snubs and insults than shots and passes,” as journalist Benoît Heimermann describes the match in, published by L'Equipe and the Olympic Museum of Lausanne.
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