Eduard Streltsov
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Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov was a Soviet footballer who played as a forward for Torpedo Moscow and the Soviet national team during the 1950s and 1960s. A powerful and skilful attacking player, he sc
Streltsov, photographed in USSR colours, c. 1955–58
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. According to Gavriil Kachalin, who managed the national football team, Khrushchev was personally involved in the Streltsov rape case.
First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev (pictured in 1967) helped Streltsov to return to professional football.
Eduard Streltsov Stadium in 2007
Yekaterina Furtseva
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Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva was a Soviet politician and member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. She was the second woman to be elected member of the CPSU Presidium and the fourth woman e
Eduard Streltsov
…brought to a head by an alleged relationship between the footballer and Svetlana Furtseva, the 16-year-old daughter of the first female Politburo member Ekaterina Furtseva. With the young Svetlana besotted by the 19-year-old Torpedo forward, her mother first met him at a Kremlin ball held early in 1957 to celebrate the…
Furtseva in 1963