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The ‘football’ (in reality a steel bearing) is moved about the pitch by twanging the  ‘players’, causing them to kick it. The ball rests in shallow depressions below the ‘players’ so it doesn’t roll away.  It is possible to pass the ball to your players by applying varying amounts of pressure when flicking them. The goalkeeper can be moved in an arc, from side-to-side, on a lever, to make saves.\n\nFootball was a very popular game in pre-Revolutionary Russia, and continued to be after the creation of the USSR. The USSR national football team drew on a vast resource of players from the many nationalities contained within the state. Initially, the team were successful, winning the inaugural European Championships in 1960. In 1988 (around the time when this game was probably made) they were runners-up to the Netherlands at the European Championships held in West Germany. 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There are 2 teams of 10 players each on the field. The teams’ gates are protected by a moveable goalkeeper. Just like in the real football game, the players are allowed to pass the ball in any direction; to do this, it is necessary to tilt to the side and then abruptly release the figure of the player in possession of the ball.  It is possible to pass the ball to any player, thus creating powerful moments in the game. \r\nThe game is released in two versions:\r\n1. “Football,” article 2AKT\r\n2.“Football-2M,” article 333KAZ\r\n\r\nCONTENTS\r\n“Football”\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\nPlaying field 1\r\nBall 1\r\nPackaging (box) 1\r\n\r\n“Football-2M”\r\nPlaying field 1\r\nGates 2\r\nBall 2\r\nChip 2\r\nPolyethylene bag 1\r\nPackaging (box) 1\r\n\r\nGAME RULES\r\n1. The game is for two people\r\n2. The game consists of two rounds, each 10 minutes long.\r\n3. A toss determines which of the teams kicks off the game\r\n4. The ball gets kicked off by the central forward. The countdown of the round time begins from this point.\r\n5. After a goal is scored, it is necessary to lift the gates slightly to the level of the playing field so that the ball rolls back out onto the field. After the goal, the game is continued by the team that conceived the goal. In “Football-2M” every team has its own counting table, on which the team’s game results are displayed.\r\n6. In case the ball goes beyond the gate line after a touch by the attacking team, the ball gets thrown on the field by the opposite team’s player, who is nearest to the gate.\r\n7. If the ball goes beyond the line of the gates after a touch by the defending team, this team gets assigned a corner shot carried out by the outermost player of the other team.\r\n8. There are no penalties in the game, and players are never off-side.\r\n9. Game results: the game is won by the team that has scored most goals in the opponent’s gates during both rounds, or if the number of goals is the same the game is considered a draw.\r\n10. A judge can be selected among the supporters, who will follow the match and arbitrate any disagreements.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Game instructions, printed in Russian, German and English"},{"content":"'Vneshtorgizdat. Ed. 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She then gave it to the Museum of Childhood in 2015 [2016/7].\n","historicalContext":"Germany was divided in two following the Second World War: the Eastern portion, occupied by the  Red Army of the Soviet Union, became the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), a Marxist- Leninist one party state. The DDR was the richest economy of the Eastern Bloc, though all  member states were tied to the economy of the Soviet Union via the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (commonly known by the acronym COMECON). This arrangement set out in which  areas the Soviet Union would choose to invest, and what products would be traded with whom.  By the 1970s, the reality had become that the COMECON gave the Soviet Union the means to  cheaply import raw materials from the Eastern Bloc, and then to sell poor quality consumer  products back to it.\r\n\r\nFootball was a very popular game in pre-Revolutionary Russia, and continued to be after the creation of the USSR. 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