As they say in the Russian proverb: the less you know – the better you sleep. Apparently, the leadership of the Soviet Union acted in accordance with this popular wisdom, so it tried to not disturb the inhabitants of the country with bad news. …
Those were the five large-scale catastrophes that Soviet citizens learned only many years after. All data about them was carefully hidden, so it is still difficult to establish the exact number of victims.
Massive stampede in the Luzhniki Stadium
On October 20, 1982 at the Moscow Central Stadium named after Lenin there was the biggest tragedy in the history of Soviet sports. It happened under the curtain of the UEFA Cup football match between “Spartacus” and the Dutch “Haarlem”.
On that accursed day, the weather was extremely cold. On the eve of the match in Moscow, the first snow fell, and the temperature dropped to -10!
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