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Announcer 1: Yakushev
cutting right in front.

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Score!

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To make it seven to three.

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Announcer 2: The best hockey
team in the world.

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Announcer 3: And the Soviets
are still unbeaten.

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The progress is almost
frightening.

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Announcer 4: The Soviet
hockey team was proof,

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the Soviet system
was the best system.

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Reporter 1: Top story, Soviet
president, Mikhail Gorbachev

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has been removed from power

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and there are tanks
in the streets of Moscow.

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It is not clear
what that means.

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Yeltsin! Yeltsin!

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Reporter 2: Moscow has not
witnessed scenes like this

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since the Communist Revolution.

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Reporter 3: You can't put
freedom and democracy

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back into a box
and keep it contained.

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Reporter 4: The Soviet Union
no longer exists.

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Reporter 5: Boris Yeltsin
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as armed forces chief.

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Reporter 6: Communism is out
and capitalism is in.

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America won the Cold War.

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Reporter 7: That poses
a question to the West.

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Will the world
grasp the opportunity

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offered by the ending
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or let this truly historic
opening slip away?

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Reporter 8: The saying goes,
"Those who don't learn

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from history are destined
to repeat it."

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Reporter 9: What is happening
to Russian hockey?

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The money's drying up,
the fans are going away,

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and so are the players,
to the NHL.

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Announcer 5: Shot, scores.

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Sergei Fedorov, first goal
in the National Hockey League.

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Announcer 6: Mogilny,
a sensational play.

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Announcer 7: They shoot better
and they skate better.

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Thank you very much,
I'm very happy.

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Announcer 8: The talent is
leaving by the thousands.

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Reporter 10: The NHL's biggest
young stars

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are made in the USSR.

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Reporter 11: The future of Red
Army hockey is in question.

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Now in Russia,
it's like any other business,

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scrambling for a buck.

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Will they survive?

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Howard: What's that?

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Do you want your
vodka chilled or not?

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- Vodka?
- I'm bringing you vodka.

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Oh, chilled,
because I'll just sip it.

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Okay.

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If somebody had an idea that was
a little... different

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or off the wall,

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they might reach out
to Howard and say,

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"Hey, here's a guy that's
crazy enough that might do it."

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And so I got approached
and they said,

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"Hey, we got a fun idea
for you,"

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which was to invest
in a team in Russia.

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He has an idea, okay, and says,
"What do you think?"

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And it's my job to tell him
if it's too crazy.

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If I think it's too crazy,
he probably doesn't do it, okay?

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If I think
it's only a little crazy,

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we're probably going to do it.

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Tom: The Russians were looking
to get a partner

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to help them pay the bills.

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We couldn't believe that one
of the greatest hockey teams

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was on the verge of extinction,
if that's possible?

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This was the Soviet Union.

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This was a vast country
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with an Olympic tradition
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of great teams and skills.

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Announcer 9: And Kharlamov
racing away on a breakaway,

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coming in on goal.
Scores.

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Kharlamov came out
of nowhere there.

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Announcer 10: Circling back,
Fetisov, Larionov.

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Makarov. He scores!

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Tom: Hundreds of thousands
of kids playing all over

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the country and being watched
and monitored.

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And the question was,
would one of those players

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be able to come and play
for the Pittsburgh Penguins?

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Announcer 11: Two seconds,
the Penguins are going

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to win the Stanley Cup,
I believe.

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Chelios shoots it wide,

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the Penguins
have won the Stanley Cup!

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Tom: All we had to get
was one player.

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Or be able to trade one player
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that would justify
what we were doing.

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He saw this as a once
in a lifetime opportunity

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to own one of the greatest
hockey teams.

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Howard: When we first met
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the primary purpose of the
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we liked each other.

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Tikhonov cared about
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Play on the ice.

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Announcer 12:
There's Victor Tikhonov,

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one of the most successful
coaches of all time.

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Not liked by his players,

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but that doesn't seem
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Howard: He was a good old
hard line communist.

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If anybody tells you different, they're wrong.

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Tom: He was in the army,
Tikhonov.

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It's a central sports club
of the army.

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That's what CSKA means, what
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And in the old days,
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a request, money would come.
Now, money didn't come.

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And he just, he suddenly woke up
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and didn't know how he was going
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Howard: And Gushin was like
a GM that was...

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Oh, how-- how do I say
this politely?

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He was well-used,
old Gushin was.

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Howard: I mean, he'd been
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and done that,
and I liked that.

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So it wasn't very hard
to make this deal.

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Now an American team has a stake
in Russian hockey,

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rescuing an entire sport
from thin ice.

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Howard: When we did the deal,
I said to Mr. Gushin,

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"Trust me, I'll make you
a good capitalist."

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Hopefully, we will.

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Reporter 12: The Red Army Team
is 50 percent owned

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by the Pittsburgh Penguins,

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and a group of investors
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NHL star, Mario Lemieux,

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and movie and TV star,
Michael J. Fox.

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Larry: Are you telling me
you own a piece

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of the Russian hockey team?

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You can't really call it
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because it's the Russian
government's,

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but we basically stepped in
and took over,

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uh, a financial interest of the
central Red Army hockey team

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in, uh, in-- in Moscow,
in Russia.

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Larry: And you called them what?

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Uh, well, they're called
the Russian Penguins.

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Good evening.

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It is one of the great gambles

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of our time, the attempt to turn
the former Soviet Union

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into a new free market economy.

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Reporter 13: The risks of doing business in Moscow are obvious.

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The opportunities, less obvious,
but they're enormous.

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The results are out tonight...

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Howard: There weren't people
lined up to go over there.

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There was still people
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about doing anything
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So I figured if there's
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we might be able to do this,
it's now.

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And so Howard said, "We're going
to need a marketing guy

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because this is going to be
a whole new world."

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Steven: They were looking
for a crazy young guy.

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Somebody who was willing
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for a couple of years.

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Steven: Who wasn't afraid
to die in the new Russia,

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not the traditional thinker.

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So that's how I got it.

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I had this special talent

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of creating a firestorm
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So Howard said,

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"Steven, how would you like
to go to Moscow

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and work with the greatest
hockey team in the world?"

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Nothing.
I got nothing.

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He just seemed
like the perfect guy

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to send on a venture like this.

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Tom: It was the Wild West.

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We were going in there
and he was a gunslinger

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in the Wild West.

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Director: But what does that
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That means
it could be dangerous...

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but I also never worried
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You know, at the beginning,

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we didn't understand
the-- the risks. Okay?

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We didn't understand
what the country was like

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and what have you.

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Howard: I mean, if your partner is the Red Army,

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you'd think you would be safe.

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But he had a lot of guts
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and bringing out his
bag of tricks

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to try to fill the building,
and to make us money.

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Well, hang on a sec, I just,
I haven't done this in a second.

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Now hang on.
Here we go.

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Okay, wait. No.

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Steven: Russia was an enigma
to all of us.

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What went on behind
the iron curtain, nobody knew.

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And I wanted to know.

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So I went.

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Al Gore: Take the risk and
begin investing in Russia.

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We're behind you.

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We want you to succeed.

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This new relationship
has such enormous potential.

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Reporter 14: American
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to bring their products
to Russia.

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Western companies are investing more and more each day.

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Steven: You come into
Sheremetyevo Airport...

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and there's this smell of death in the airport.

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It's, I-- I think Marlon Brando
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called the ass of death.

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That's what it smelled
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Roads were jammed.

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Elevators weren't working.

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Every aspect was difficult.

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We worked on army grounds.

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The arena where
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was called The Ice Palace,
which was a complete misnomer.

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It was a dump.

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The lights were out.

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Everything had been either
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The plexiglass wrapping
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you couldn't see through it.

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And where we would
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there were electricians
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They didn't even display their
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There was a small trophy case
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in the inside of the arena...

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but for the most part,

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it really looked like a
bomb had hit the building.

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I expected that the country
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It turned out I was wrong.

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Alexander: When we started
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there was one television in
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serving four or six television
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They had a youth
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That's where this
show was invented.

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We did political journalism,

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general, like, exchange
of different views.

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We were different.

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Everybody understood the system
is in a deadlock

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mentally, emotionally,

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economically as well.

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And suddenly,
this free market economy

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comes and, like, spears
in their eyes,

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and they don't know
how to deal with that.

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Director: What about... What about the law enforcement?

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It was weak. Law enforcement,
it was just weak.

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Nobody cared... about people.

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Everything which was done
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was in very bad shape.

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Everything.

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Housing, health care,
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Food was very bad... not fresh.

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A lack of food.

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Steven: I ran the emotion
between being very excited

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to be there and being
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but at the same time
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that this country
had just been crushed.

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There was no pride left.

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There were medical doctors
driving Zambonis

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because they made more money

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driving a Zamboni
than doing surgery.

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The idea of an office to them
is even foreign.

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There was no technology at all.

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We had to bring everything in.

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Every morning, I would go
into work freshly showered,

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and wearing a new suit.

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Everybody there was hung over

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and wiping sleep
out of their eyes,

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wearing the same clothes
from the day before.

253
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It's literally going
to another world.

254
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There was a club downstairs
called the Red Zone...

255
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where they lowered women
in cages that were naked.

256
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I thought it was staged, I couldn't believe this was real.

257
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Right in the hockey arena.
Yeah, yeah,

258
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Man 1: Yeah.
- Crazy.

259
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Steven: They were
the landlords.

260
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This is business to them.

261
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What we were doing was just
completely ancillary.

262
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Believe me, they needed money.

263
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Without the government's
support, they were nothing.

264
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Tom: They couldn't
buy uniforms,

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they couldn't buy
hockey sticks.

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The older kids would take
their jerseys off,

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and if you've ever seen
a hockey jersey

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after kids have played in it,
they would take them off

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and they'd give it
to the next group of kids.

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And then those kids
would play,

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and they'd take them off
and give them to the next kids.

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It was that dire.

273
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Tikhonov, particularly,
he had no idea

274
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that there were ways
to get money,

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to create money with the team
and then use that money.

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It was just not done.
They never had done it.

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I mean, literally,
they were selling tickets

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for what would be
a US equivalent of six cents.

279
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So, I'm, uh... Uh...

280
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Yeah. My name is Victor Gusev.

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I'm commentator,
sports commentator

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and anchorman, Channel One
which is a number one channel.

283
00:16:00,872 --> 00:16:02,396
Director: We don't mind
interruptions.

284
00:16:07,967 --> 00:16:09,533
Victor: The Russian Penguins,

285
00:16:09,577 --> 00:16:14,147
they were impossible in the
'60s, '70s, or the '80s,

286
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almost impossible.

287
00:16:16,236 --> 00:16:18,281
A joint venture between
the Soviet Union

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and American like this. No.

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So it was like an indication,
a very good

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indicator of new things
happening in my country.

291
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Steven: Victor Gusev
was the catalyst

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for this joint venture.

293
00:16:36,647 --> 00:16:40,260
He was fluent in Russian,
and he was my right arm.

294
00:16:42,523 --> 00:16:45,526
Victor saved my ass
so many times

295
00:16:45,569 --> 00:16:48,833
because of cultural mistakes
that I was about to make.

296
00:16:48,877 --> 00:16:53,055
He was also very clever and he could drink with Gushin.

297
00:16:53,099 --> 00:16:54,883
Victor: Like any Russian,
he becomes

298
00:16:54,926 --> 00:16:57,233
even more friendly
when he's drunk.

299
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So it helped a lot
when there were some problems.

300
00:17:01,194 --> 00:17:03,283
I mean, everybody's drunk
in Russia.

301
00:17:08,897 --> 00:17:10,986
Gushin was shit-faced
half the time.

302
00:17:24,130 --> 00:17:26,219
The first thing in doing
any kind of branding is,

303
00:17:26,262 --> 00:17:28,003
we had to change the brand.

304
00:17:28,047 --> 00:17:30,701
All you had was CCCP,

305
00:17:30,745 --> 00:17:34,096
and somebody might say,
"Well, what is that?

306
00:17:34,140 --> 00:17:35,445
Did somebody...

307
00:17:35,489 --> 00:17:37,882
Did somebody get the
typewriter stuck?"

308
00:18:12,526 --> 00:18:13,831
Reporter 15: The hammer
and sickle

309
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of the old Soviet uniform

310
00:18:15,746 --> 00:18:19,054
has now been replaced
by a smiling penguin.

311
00:19:20,507 --> 00:19:23,205
Steven: A lot was at stake
on opening night.

312
00:19:23,249 --> 00:19:25,120
The whole sports world
was watching

313
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to see if Russia
and the United States

314
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could collaborate.

315
00:19:31,605 --> 00:19:33,128
It was a disaster.

316
00:19:35,043 --> 00:19:36,784
Nobody was there.

317
00:19:36,827 --> 00:19:38,481
They looked like a mausoleum.

318
00:19:42,268 --> 00:19:44,966
We had no idea
it was going to be this hard.

319
00:19:46,533 --> 00:19:49,971
I looked at Gushin
and then I said,

320
00:19:50,014 --> 00:19:52,974
"We are going to fill this arena
by Christmas."

321
00:19:53,017 --> 00:19:54,410
And he looked at me and he said,

322
00:19:54,454 --> 00:19:57,152
"Even Jesus Christ's
re-- reappearance..."

323
00:19:57,196 --> 00:19:58,588
Uh, let me, let me
tell you again.

324
00:19:58,632 --> 00:20:00,677
What did they call it
when He comes back?

325
00:20:00,721 --> 00:20:02,505
Director: Resurrection.
- Resurrection. Yeah.

326
00:20:02,549 --> 00:20:03,898
Okay, thank you.

327
00:20:03,941 --> 00:20:05,465
My Jewishness is showing here.

328
00:20:06,944 --> 00:20:08,816
Um, okay. So let me start...

329
00:20:08,859 --> 00:20:11,775
It's an easy story.
I'll just start it again. Um...

330
00:20:11,819 --> 00:20:15,126
I looked into Valery Gushin's
eyes, and I said,

331
00:20:15,170 --> 00:20:17,825
"We will fill this arena
by Christmas."

332
00:20:17,868 --> 00:20:22,090
And he said to me, "Not even
Jesus Christ's resurrection

333
00:20:22,133 --> 00:20:23,744
could fill this building."

334
00:20:23,787 --> 00:20:25,746
I'm Leif Peterson
in Moscow, Russia,

335
00:20:25,789 --> 00:20:28,966
where some unusual Americans
are taking some unusual risks,

336
00:20:29,010 --> 00:20:30,620
all in the name of capitalism.

337
00:20:30,664 --> 00:20:32,405
I'll have that story coming up.

338
00:20:34,711 --> 00:20:36,844
Victor: Yeah, most
of Steve's ideas,

339
00:20:36,887 --> 00:20:39,238
uh, really seemed wild to me.

340
00:20:39,281 --> 00:20:40,717
Like, let's say...

341
00:20:40,761 --> 00:20:44,852
Let's bring some strip tease
girls on skates.

342
00:20:44,895 --> 00:20:49,073
Howard: They had a nightclub
and they had strippers.

343
00:20:49,117 --> 00:20:51,641
So, Stevie figured, "Well, these
would make great cheerleaders.

344
00:20:51,685 --> 00:20:54,731
Let's do some cheerleading here
and get the crowd excited."

345
00:20:54,775 --> 00:20:57,386
Mm. I told him, "We can't do it.

346
00:20:57,430 --> 00:21:00,911
Gushin and Tikhonov,
they would never allow it."

347
00:21:00,955 --> 00:21:03,479
Well, they're not
on the stands.

348
00:21:03,523 --> 00:21:05,176
They're in the dressing room
during the break.

349
00:21:05,220 --> 00:21:07,875
So they won't even see.

350
00:21:07,918 --> 00:21:09,616
"You mean, we shouldn't
tell them?"

351
00:21:09,659 --> 00:21:12,096
"No, we're not telling them.
No, we just do it."

352
00:21:12,140 --> 00:21:14,447
Steven: So we did,
and we outfitted them

353
00:21:14,490 --> 00:21:18,755
in our uniforms and they would
skate behind the Zamboni,

354
00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:21,280
pulling off layers
of their gear

355
00:21:21,323 --> 00:21:23,891
until they were left in pasties and a G string.

356
00:21:29,549 --> 00:21:31,681
Victor: The ministry of defense
saw it,

357
00:21:31,725 --> 00:21:37,948
and they thought it was like every game, in between periods.

358
00:21:55,401 --> 00:21:59,796
We had nights
where we had free beer nights.

359
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,625
We had 14-, 15-, 16-year-old
kids drunk,

360
00:22:02,669 --> 00:22:04,366
cheering on the team.

361
00:22:06,847 --> 00:22:09,153
Pittsburgh Brewing Company
was our sponsor,

362
00:22:09,197 --> 00:22:10,720
and I was trying to figure out, "What can we do

363
00:22:10,764 --> 00:22:13,593
to get attention
for their beer?"

364
00:22:13,636 --> 00:22:15,377
The circus was in town,

365
00:22:15,421 --> 00:22:18,206
so there were bears
in our basement.

366
00:22:18,249 --> 00:22:20,034
I talked to the trainers,
and I said,

367
00:22:20,077 --> 00:22:23,167
"Is it possible
to set up a restaurant cafe

368
00:22:23,211 --> 00:22:26,257
on the ice and have the bears
come out as the waiters

369
00:22:26,301 --> 00:22:28,825
and serve the beer?"

370
00:22:28,869 --> 00:22:30,697
"Sure, we can do that."

371
00:22:32,916 --> 00:22:35,005
The bears came out, there was
another bear sitting

372
00:22:35,049 --> 00:22:37,007
at the table,
that he served,

373
00:22:37,051 --> 00:22:40,097
and the bear took the beer
and guzzled the whole beer.

374
00:22:40,141 --> 00:22:41,621
That was the good part of it.

375
00:22:41,664 --> 00:22:44,275
The bad part is that
one of the legends of CSKA

376
00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:47,540
was drunk downstairs
and was playing with the bear.

377
00:22:47,583 --> 00:22:49,237
He kept saying,
plokhoy medved.

378
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,848
"Bad bear, bad bear,"
until the bear took off

379
00:22:51,892 --> 00:22:53,197
half of his finger.

380
00:22:56,984 --> 00:23:00,596
The fans thought I was some
crazy American freak.

381
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:01,815
They were right.

382
00:23:01,858 --> 00:23:03,643
I was the crazy American freak.

383
00:23:11,172 --> 00:23:13,087
Steven: We're going to have
a Gorbachev-Yeltsin

384
00:23:13,130 --> 00:23:15,394
lookalike contest on the ice.

385
00:23:15,437 --> 00:23:18,440
We're going to have bikini
contests in January.

386
00:23:18,484 --> 00:23:21,138
Reporter 16: The younger
Russians love all of this.

387
00:23:21,182 --> 00:23:22,749
The older Russians
are not so sure.

388
00:23:22,792 --> 00:23:24,446
Bryant here's something
from Howard Baldwin to you.

389
00:23:24,490 --> 00:23:26,100
- Just so you'll remember.
- Thank you so very much.

390
00:23:26,143 --> 00:23:28,189
Good investment, bad investment?
Real quick.

391
00:23:28,232 --> 00:23:30,017
Um, he's not going to make
much money out of it

392
00:23:30,060 --> 00:23:31,410
but having a lot of fun with it.

393
00:23:31,453 --> 00:23:33,324
Hey, that's half of life.

394
00:23:33,368 --> 00:23:34,761
8:14, we're back in just...

395
00:23:34,804 --> 00:23:36,502
Steven: They thought
we were crazy,

396
00:23:36,545 --> 00:23:39,418
but people wanted to see
the freak show,

397
00:23:39,461 --> 00:23:41,594
so they came,

398
00:23:41,637 --> 00:23:43,726
and word
started to spread.

399
00:23:43,770 --> 00:23:45,815
"What goes on
at the ice palace?"

400
00:23:45,859 --> 00:23:48,252
People come out,
have a few beers,

401
00:23:48,296 --> 00:23:51,952
laugh, dance,
and enjoy themselves.

402
00:23:51,995 --> 00:23:54,737
We are the only arena
that has clean bathrooms

403
00:23:54,781 --> 00:23:56,435
and free toilet paper.

404
00:23:56,478 --> 00:23:58,828
They're issued two meters
of toilet paper

405
00:23:58,872 --> 00:24:00,700
as they enter the bathrooms.

406
00:24:00,743 --> 00:24:02,484
This is so that
they don't steal the rolls.

407
00:24:02,528 --> 00:24:04,138
Tom: He got there,
he rolled up his sleeves,

408
00:24:04,181 --> 00:24:07,402
he worked day and night,
and we started to see results.

409
00:24:13,495 --> 00:24:15,628
Steven: We just did whatever
the hell we wanted there,

410
00:24:15,671 --> 00:24:17,325
and it was a freak show.

411
00:24:28,249 --> 00:24:32,471
Reporter 17: It's becoming
hottest ticket in Moscow.

412
00:24:32,514 --> 00:24:34,473
The Russian Army team
is on the ice

413
00:24:34,516 --> 00:24:36,866
and Americans staging the show.

414
00:24:36,910 --> 00:24:39,521
Man 2: We've got Russian
mini-sticks, Russian lighters,

415
00:24:39,565 --> 00:24:42,306
Russian lapel pins,
Russian pennants.

416
00:24:42,350 --> 00:24:45,484
We've got Russian hats,
T-shirts, sweatshirt,

417
00:24:45,527 --> 00:24:47,486
pucks, almost anything
you could want.

418
00:24:47,529 --> 00:24:49,879
Reporter 18: Baldwin and his
Russian counterpart,

419
00:24:49,923 --> 00:24:52,621
Valery Gushin are selling
advertising space

420
00:24:52,665 --> 00:24:55,537
on everything
but the player's underwear.

421
00:24:55,581 --> 00:24:57,539
Victor: Before
the Russian Penguins,

422
00:24:57,583 --> 00:24:59,889
we didn't have advertisements
on boards,

423
00:24:59,933 --> 00:25:01,717
they were the first to put it.

424
00:25:01,761 --> 00:25:04,503
And when people came,
they didn't know what to say

425
00:25:04,546 --> 00:25:07,549
because the empty boards were
covered with advertisement.

426
00:25:07,593 --> 00:25:10,030
Reporter 19: Companies pay
$12,000 each

427
00:25:10,073 --> 00:25:12,554
to advertise on the boards.

428
00:25:12,598 --> 00:25:15,949
$48,000 to be on
the team Jersey.

429
00:25:15,992 --> 00:25:18,691
- Nice uniform.
- Wild, isn't it?

430
00:25:18,734 --> 00:25:20,693
Reporter 20: You can even put
your logo on the ushers,

431
00:25:20,736 --> 00:25:22,085
the concession
stand attendants,

432
00:25:22,129 --> 00:25:23,739
or even the security guard.

433
00:25:23,783 --> 00:25:25,567
Reporter 21: It'll cost you
$5,000.

434
00:25:25,611 --> 00:25:28,352
For another $5,000 you can be
the exclusive sponsor

435
00:25:28,396 --> 00:25:32,139
of the Gorbachev-Yeltsin
lookalike contest.

436
00:25:32,182 --> 00:25:35,621
Steven: We would give away way
chocolates, Gillette razors,

437
00:25:35,664 --> 00:25:37,666
Panasonic stereos.

438
00:25:37,710 --> 00:25:40,887
You're getting real value
to come to a game.

439
00:25:43,454 --> 00:25:45,587
We were this Petri dish.

440
00:25:45,631 --> 00:25:47,937
We were a science project.

441
00:25:47,981 --> 00:25:50,549
We had no idea it was going
to take off so quickly...

442
00:25:51,898 --> 00:25:54,465
nor did the Russians.

443
00:25:57,077 --> 00:25:59,383
We became a phenomenon.

444
00:25:59,427 --> 00:26:00,602
"What's going on?

445
00:26:00,646 --> 00:26:02,996
What's this hip bird in Russia?

446
00:26:03,039 --> 00:26:05,694
Why are these jerseys
selling all over the place?"

447
00:26:05,738 --> 00:26:07,087
Tom: It was very optimistic.

448
00:26:07,130 --> 00:26:08,741
The whole country
was optimistic.

449
00:26:08,784 --> 00:26:11,004
I'm telling you, the
U.S.-Russian partnership

450
00:26:11,047 --> 00:26:12,745
was going to be the model
for the future.

451
00:26:17,793 --> 00:26:21,231
Steven: And that's how
Disney got involved.

452
00:26:21,275 --> 00:26:24,060
Announcer 13: Now please welcome
the Professional Hockey League

453
00:26:24,104 --> 00:26:28,587
All-Stars, Sergei Fedorov!

454
00:26:28,630 --> 00:26:32,286
Steven: During the All-Star
game in Madison Square Garden.

455
00:26:32,329 --> 00:26:34,854
Howard came up to me
and said...

456
00:26:36,682 --> 00:26:38,640
"How would you like to have
dinner with Michael Eisner

457
00:26:38,684 --> 00:26:39,728
tonight at the 21 Club?"

458
00:26:44,037 --> 00:26:45,560
Naturally...

459
00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:48,432
And we knew Michael Eisner
from the film business,

460
00:26:48,476 --> 00:26:51,784
and he just came into the
league with the Mighty Ducks.

461
00:26:51,827 --> 00:26:54,351
Mickey: Come on, Michael.
Follow me.

462
00:26:54,395 --> 00:26:55,788
Steven: Michael kept
saying to me,

463
00:26:55,831 --> 00:26:57,659
"Steven, what's going on
over there?"

464
00:26:57,703 --> 00:27:00,488
And I told them one crazy story
after the other,

465
00:27:00,531 --> 00:27:03,665
and he started to fall in love
with this whole concept.

466
00:27:03,709 --> 00:27:07,277
Mickey: Oh, Michael.
Oh, boy!

467
00:27:07,321 --> 00:27:09,497
He pulled a notepad
out of his jacket

468
00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:13,719
and he said, "I got the plot
for "Mighty Ducks 5.""

469
00:27:13,762 --> 00:27:16,199
"American team
goes over to Moscow,

470
00:27:16,243 --> 00:27:18,724
American player falls in love
with Russian girl,

471
00:27:18,767 --> 00:27:22,684
visas expire, governments
step in, love story.

472
00:27:22,728 --> 00:27:25,208
Mighty Ducks 5."
Puts his paper back in.

473
00:27:25,252 --> 00:27:27,646
And then he said to me, "How
much merchandise you selling?"

474
00:27:27,689 --> 00:27:29,560
I said, "We're actually
doing really well.

475
00:27:29,604 --> 00:27:31,737
We're out-selling
a few NHL teams."

476
00:27:31,780 --> 00:27:33,608
And he looks at the logo,
he says,

477
00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:38,134
"That's cute, but I think
it needs to be more bellicose.

478
00:27:38,178 --> 00:27:40,310
Let Disney Imagineering
have a shot at it,

479
00:27:40,354 --> 00:27:41,964
and we'll get back to you."

480
00:27:42,008 --> 00:27:45,141
In a week, I got a stack
of logos.

481
00:27:45,185 --> 00:27:48,579
Eisner realized this is a great
way to expand their brand

482
00:27:48,623 --> 00:27:50,277
into Russia as well.

483
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,845
He said, "We're looking
at a $100 million

484
00:27:52,888 --> 00:27:54,411
licensing property here."

485
00:27:54,455 --> 00:27:57,676
Mickey: Oh, boy!
I'm gonna be rich!

486
00:27:57,719 --> 00:27:59,503
You can imagine
how excited we were

487
00:27:59,547 --> 00:28:03,116
with this little tiny team, and
now Disney had a big interest.

488
00:28:03,159 --> 00:28:05,727
So, I remember on the way out,
Howard said to me,

489
00:28:05,771 --> 00:28:09,818
"Stevie, do you think it's going
to be $100 million?"

490
00:28:09,862 --> 00:28:12,560
And I said,
"If he's off by $90 million,

491
00:28:12,603 --> 00:28:14,475
it's still a hell of a year."

492
00:28:16,042 --> 00:28:18,392
Announcer 14:
Esteemed hockey fans,

493
00:28:18,435 --> 00:28:21,221
the National Hockey League
and the Mighty Ducks

494
00:28:21,264 --> 00:28:25,051
celebrate a new era
in sports entertainment!

495
00:28:27,618 --> 00:28:30,752
Steven: Eisner talked about
doing a Saturday morning show.

496
00:28:30,796 --> 00:28:32,319
We were going to tour
every year.

497
00:28:32,362 --> 00:28:34,277
They were going to put us in the Disney stores.

498
00:28:36,149 --> 00:28:37,933
They were offering Gushin
and Tikhonov

499
00:28:37,977 --> 00:28:40,457
a $100,000 a year salary,

500
00:28:40,501 --> 00:28:42,677
trips to
the All-Star game every year,

501
00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:44,461
trips to Anaheim every year.

502
00:28:44,505 --> 00:28:46,376
Living the good life.

503
00:28:46,420 --> 00:28:48,074
Man 2: It's a Disney World,
isn't it, Michael?

504
00:28:48,117 --> 00:28:51,338
I can't help myself.
I'm just a salesman at heart.

505
00:28:51,381 --> 00:28:53,166
Howard: And Stevie sending him
an email saying,

506
00:28:53,209 --> 00:28:58,127
"Dear Comrade Eisner,
Comrade Warshaw here."

507
00:28:58,171 --> 00:29:00,042
And Michael is
probably wondering,

508
00:29:00,086 --> 00:29:01,783
"Who the hell is he?"

509
00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:05,569
And I did say, "Now look, Steve,
we got to cut this crap out.

510
00:29:05,613 --> 00:29:07,615
Not everybody gets you."

511
00:29:07,658 --> 00:29:10,139
They said you're a weird
little bastard.

512
00:29:10,183 --> 00:29:13,664
He just had a personality
that you couldn't squash,

513
00:29:13,708 --> 00:29:16,929
but it got Disney
thinking of investing.

514
00:29:16,972 --> 00:29:19,975
Steve was joking, he was joking
with everybody.

515
00:29:20,019 --> 00:29:22,456
He'd have problems
joking with people

516
00:29:22,499 --> 00:29:25,720
from Ministry of Defense
and patting them on the back,

517
00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:29,463
and Gushin and Tikhonov
took his eccentricity

518
00:29:29,506 --> 00:29:33,728
for a desire to become bigger.

519
00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:43,869
Patting a big general
on the back

520
00:29:43,912 --> 00:29:47,742
meant to Gushin that Steve
wants to take his place.

521
00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:49,048
But no, it was
the nature of Steve.

522
00:29:49,091 --> 00:29:50,832
That's it.

523
00:29:50,876 --> 00:29:53,617
My nickname with the team
that was actually given to me

524
00:29:53,661 --> 00:29:57,708
by Viktor Vasilievich Tikhonov
was Zhopa S Rootchkoi.

525
00:30:07,457 --> 00:30:10,460
Which translates to
"Asshole with a handle..."

526
00:30:12,723 --> 00:30:15,639
Which is nonsensical
even in Russian.

527
00:30:15,683 --> 00:30:18,991
And it was this weird
kind of a relationship.

528
00:30:19,034 --> 00:30:20,644
One night
I was drinking with him

529
00:30:20,688 --> 00:30:22,342
and we had too many vodkas

530
00:30:22,385 --> 00:30:24,344
and he started bearing
his soul to me

531
00:30:24,387 --> 00:30:27,216
and he said, "We love you,
Zhopa S Rootchkoi,

532
00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:30,132
but we can never trust you
because you're an American."

533
00:30:30,176 --> 00:30:32,134
And with that, I noticed
he's got blood

534
00:30:32,178 --> 00:30:33,832
dripping into his canned meat

535
00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:36,530
offering me canned meat
with his bloody hands.

536
00:30:36,573 --> 00:30:38,706
We were two totally
different people.

537
00:30:49,543 --> 00:30:51,327
For some insane reason,

538
00:30:51,371 --> 00:30:53,112
they were so paranoid

539
00:30:53,155 --> 00:30:55,201
that the Americans were trying
to screw them.

540
00:30:57,072 --> 00:30:58,769
Then, all of a sudden,

541
00:30:58,813 --> 00:31:02,382
a beautiful sauna popped up
right in the arena

542
00:31:02,425 --> 00:31:04,950
with marble that was imported
from Italy,

543
00:31:04,993 --> 00:31:07,256
and it was about $100,000.

544
00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:10,477
How did all this money come in?

545
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:16,570
They were stealing from us,
$100 here, $200 here.

546
00:31:16,613 --> 00:31:18,267
And this became a trend.

547
00:31:33,326 --> 00:31:36,329
We had partners that we didn't
trust completely, yes.

548
00:31:36,372 --> 00:31:38,157
You know, the complications
start to set in,

549
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,289
the fact that they don't do
business the way we do.

550
00:31:40,333 --> 00:31:43,771
But eventually, we thought
we could stop that.

551
00:31:43,814 --> 00:31:46,730
Howard: And so I figured, okay, I'm going to punish him.

552
00:31:46,774 --> 00:31:48,819
We need to have
a command meeting.

553
00:31:50,647 --> 00:31:51,997
So, I don't know
how long it took him

554
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,086
to come from Moscow to LA.

555
00:31:54,129 --> 00:31:56,349
It had to be 24 hours,

556
00:31:56,392 --> 00:31:57,959
and I figured will his
punishment will it be

557
00:31:58,003 --> 00:31:59,221
he's exhausted.

558
00:31:59,265 --> 00:32:00,657
So, it's Saturday morning...

559
00:32:00,701 --> 00:32:02,442
We lived up on
the Hollywood Hills here.

560
00:32:04,226 --> 00:32:06,794
And the doorbell rings,
and it's Gushin with his bag

561
00:32:06,837 --> 00:32:08,665
and says, "I'm here."

562
00:32:08,709 --> 00:32:10,929
Director: What was he like
when he was at your house?

563
00:32:10,972 --> 00:32:13,540
Oh. He sat by the pool
the whole day.

564
00:32:13,583 --> 00:32:16,325
We lived right next to Madonna. He loved that.

565
00:32:16,369 --> 00:32:19,024
And I said, "Look, you got to,
we got to watch the dollars.

566
00:32:19,067 --> 00:32:20,808
You've got to respect us
as partners."

567
00:32:20,851 --> 00:32:22,592
"Yes, yes, yes, I'm sorry,
Howard,

568
00:32:22,636 --> 00:32:25,378
from now on, that'll be
different," you know.

569
00:32:27,641 --> 00:32:29,991
And he was exhausted.
"Oh, sit down."

570
00:32:30,035 --> 00:32:31,819
Here we turn on the TV,
and the White House

571
00:32:31,862 --> 00:32:33,995
back there in Moscow's
being bombed.

572
00:32:48,662 --> 00:32:50,707
Reporter 22: On the streets of
Moscow, Russians are watching

573
00:32:50,751 --> 00:32:52,971
events unfold with disbelief.

574
00:32:54,624 --> 00:32:56,365
Thick clouds of smoke
were billowing out

575
00:32:56,409 --> 00:32:58,411
the Parliament building
after the pounding

576
00:32:58,454 --> 00:33:00,021
from Yeltsin's tanks,

577
00:33:00,065 --> 00:33:02,023
as those inside contemplated
surrender...

578
00:33:04,591 --> 00:33:08,290
All watched by thousands of bystanders risking their lives.

579
00:33:08,334 --> 00:33:09,770
Reporter 23: Yeltsin dissolved
Congress Tuesday

580
00:33:09,813 --> 00:33:11,641
after months of
political infighting

581
00:33:11,685 --> 00:33:14,557
over who should rule, the
President or the Parliament?

582
00:33:14,601 --> 00:33:16,733
Reporter 24: With tanks
surrounding the White House,

583
00:33:16,777 --> 00:33:20,389
Yeltsin's troops stormed
the building again on camera.

584
00:33:20,433 --> 00:33:22,000
Reporter 25: Okay, look,
I can see men going into

585
00:33:22,043 --> 00:33:23,827
the Russian White House now.

586
00:33:23,871 --> 00:33:25,612
It appears to be
a show of force

587
00:33:25,655 --> 00:33:27,222
by President Boris Yeltsin

588
00:33:27,266 --> 00:33:29,616
against his conservative
opponents in Congress.

589
00:33:31,879 --> 00:33:34,925
Our state, he had
no administration.

590
00:33:41,106 --> 00:33:44,631
Everybody started
to defend themselves.

591
00:33:44,674 --> 00:33:47,460
Everywhere people were
doing what they wanted.

592
00:33:47,503 --> 00:33:51,203
Some of them took guns,
some of them just stayed away.

593
00:33:51,246 --> 00:33:52,465
Jungle.

594
00:34:23,583 --> 00:34:25,889
Reporter 26: If there is good
news in Russia tonight,

595
00:34:25,933 --> 00:34:28,153
it is that
it can't get much worse.

596
00:34:31,373 --> 00:34:33,245
Reporter 27: The country has
gone from extreme control

597
00:34:33,288 --> 00:34:35,073
to virtually no control.

598
00:34:36,422 --> 00:34:37,945
Chaos and freedom have taken

599
00:34:37,988 --> 00:34:40,121
its toll
on the Russian people.

600
00:34:40,165 --> 00:34:42,210
Stability is what people want.

601
00:34:53,308 --> 00:34:56,572
Alexander: And that night I-- I was on television saying,

602
00:34:56,616 --> 00:34:58,270
"Stay in your houses.

603
00:34:58,313 --> 00:35:01,055
Don't go to the streets
because there are fights,

604
00:35:01,099 --> 00:35:02,883
and there is fire.

605
00:35:02,926 --> 00:35:04,928
Or you're going to be killed."

606
00:35:04,972 --> 00:35:07,105
They didn't like it,
and they abandoned me

607
00:35:07,148 --> 00:35:09,063
for-- for half a year, I think.

608
00:35:13,546 --> 00:35:18,420
And since then, they didn't let
me make a show, uh, on politics.

609
00:35:49,059 --> 00:35:50,844
Yeah, I was there for that.

610
00:35:53,629 --> 00:35:56,371
We drove down
to see what was going on,

611
00:35:56,415 --> 00:36:01,681
and it was right out of
a third world takeover.

612
00:36:01,724 --> 00:36:04,031
Director:
Did you feel scared a little?

613
00:36:04,074 --> 00:36:06,076
Steven: You know I was
a young, crazy kid

614
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,079
with a big old head of curls
and no care in the world,

615
00:36:09,123 --> 00:36:13,562
and, um, I didn't think twice
about it.

616
00:36:13,606 --> 00:36:17,392
♪ So yeah start wearing purple

617
00:36:17,436 --> 00:36:20,613
♪ Wearing purple

618
00:36:20,656 --> 00:36:24,704
♪ Start wearing purple
for me now ♪

619
00:36:24,747 --> 00:36:28,708
♪ All your sanity and wits
they will all vanish ♪

620
00:36:28,751 --> 00:36:33,452
♪ I promise
it's just a matter of time ♪♪

621
00:36:33,495 --> 00:36:35,715
Well, as you know,
there's no rules in Russia.

622
00:36:35,758 --> 00:36:37,804
That's our slogan,
and, uh, we get away

623
00:36:37,847 --> 00:36:40,110
with everything except murder.

624
00:36:40,154 --> 00:36:43,375
Steven: It's a crazy world,
and we took advantage of it.

625
00:36:43,418 --> 00:36:45,812
Director: But were you guys
worried about the health

626
00:36:45,855 --> 00:36:49,076
of Russia or were you worried
about the Pittsburgh Penguins?

627
00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:52,079
Neither. I was just...

628
00:36:52,122 --> 00:36:56,388
All I wanted to do was to create
something beautiful in sport.

629
00:36:56,431 --> 00:36:59,782
♪ So Vio-- Vio-- Violetta!

630
00:36:59,826 --> 00:37:01,393
♪ Etta!

631
00:37:13,666 --> 00:37:15,581
♪ So yeah hu haa hu haa

632
00:37:15,624 --> 00:37:18,932
♪ Start wearing purple
wearing purple ♪

633
00:37:18,975 --> 00:37:20,499
♪ La la la la la

634
00:37:20,542 --> 00:37:24,633
♪ Start wearing purple
for me now ♪

635
00:37:24,677 --> 00:37:30,726
♪ All your sanity and wits
they will all vanish I promise ♪

636
00:37:30,770 --> 00:37:34,817
♪ It's just a matter of time ♪

637
00:37:37,211 --> 00:37:39,866
It's complete chaos.

638
00:37:39,909 --> 00:37:42,651
I would always talk to him,
not when anybody was around.

639
00:37:42,695 --> 00:37:45,001
I'd say, "Steve, you know,
should we be worried?

640
00:37:45,045 --> 00:37:47,090
Should we be doing something?"
and he would say,

641
00:37:47,134 --> 00:37:49,267
"I think it's okay,
but I'll let you know."

642
00:37:49,310 --> 00:37:52,357
And I said, "Please, for God's
sake, if you're at any point

643
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,359
if there's really a risk,
you got to let us know

644
00:37:54,402 --> 00:37:57,666
because this is not
what this is all about."

645
00:37:57,710 --> 00:37:58,711
Yeah.

646
00:38:19,166 --> 00:38:21,124
Steven: When Howard
flew over to Moscow

647
00:38:21,168 --> 00:38:23,126
to check on his investment,

648
00:38:23,170 --> 00:38:27,957
he came with a Disney
representative, Kevin Gilmore.

649
00:38:28,001 --> 00:38:31,004
We-- we were told that we had
to be very careful to go over,

650
00:38:31,047 --> 00:38:34,616
and we even went to the length
of renting a plane.

651
00:38:34,660 --> 00:38:37,184
We didn't wanna fly commercial.

652
00:38:37,227 --> 00:38:41,014
So, we had the pilot in a hotel
right by the airport,

653
00:38:41,057 --> 00:38:42,798
and the idea was
he was gonna call

654
00:38:42,842 --> 00:38:45,714
in case we had to get
out of there fast.

655
00:38:45,758 --> 00:38:51,329
Howard hired a Special Forces
guy to protect him for the trip,

656
00:38:51,372 --> 00:38:54,375
who actually walked out
onto the windowsills

657
00:38:54,419 --> 00:38:57,509
of his fifth floor hotel room to
make sure no one could come in

658
00:38:57,552 --> 00:38:59,815
during the night.
Howard loved this intrigue.

659
00:38:59,859 --> 00:39:02,862
It was sort of like a Russian
spy novel for him.

660
00:39:02,905 --> 00:39:06,518
You know, for me, it was just
going to work every day.

661
00:39:06,561 --> 00:39:10,173
Tom: You know, our drivers,
because we had drivers

662
00:39:10,217 --> 00:39:12,828
didn't want to stop at lights
or whatever,

663
00:39:12,872 --> 00:39:14,395
and they told us,
you can't stop at lights

664
00:39:14,439 --> 00:39:17,529
because you're most likely going
to get kidnapped.

665
00:39:17,572 --> 00:39:19,531
Or, if you did get stopped
by the police,

666
00:39:19,574 --> 00:39:22,838
you wouldn't be kidnapped, but
you had to pay them immediately.

667
00:39:22,882 --> 00:39:24,623
And so we just reached
into our wallets

668
00:39:24,666 --> 00:39:28,409
and gave him $100 and moved on.

669
00:39:28,453 --> 00:39:30,672
Steven: I would ask my driver,
"What was the charge?"

670
00:39:30,716 --> 00:39:32,587
"You're an asshole."
That was the charge.

671
00:39:32,631 --> 00:39:34,415
They didn't need a charge,
they would just pull you over

672
00:39:34,459 --> 00:39:35,634
and arrest you.

673
00:40:23,116 --> 00:40:25,205
People want to be rich.

674
00:40:25,248 --> 00:40:26,641
They fight for resources.

675
00:40:26,685 --> 00:40:30,253
You fight for what
you have around.

676
00:40:49,098 --> 00:40:53,146
Wild days.

677
00:41:50,508 --> 00:41:53,946
Tom: It's a culture and it's a
culture that's 1000 years old

678
00:41:53,989 --> 00:41:55,643
in whatever period of time.

679
00:41:58,037 --> 00:42:00,518
If we think we're gonna change
that culture business-wise

680
00:42:00,561 --> 00:42:03,390
overnight, we're sadly mistaken.

681
00:42:03,433 --> 00:42:07,568
And we saw the kind of people.
I mean...I don't know.

682
00:42:07,612 --> 00:42:09,265
We went to a restaurant one day

683
00:42:09,309 --> 00:42:11,224
and I thought
I was in a 1930s movie.

684
00:42:11,267 --> 00:42:13,922
Everybody else in the place
had bodyguards

685
00:42:13,966 --> 00:42:15,707
and, literally,
you could see weapons.

686
00:42:15,750 --> 00:42:18,057
You weren't supposed to have
a weapon there.

687
00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:19,493
Howard and I kinda looked around
and thought,

688
00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:21,364
what is this all about?

689
00:42:21,408 --> 00:42:24,585
They brought out a sturgeon,
a gigantic sturgeon,

690
00:42:24,629 --> 00:42:27,240
then they, they auctioned
it off.

691
00:42:27,283 --> 00:42:30,243
So Howard turned to me, I'm the
guy about the numbers, and said,

692
00:42:30,286 --> 00:42:32,027
"You know, should we be bidding
on this?"

693
00:42:32,071 --> 00:42:34,203
I said, "No, no,
we keep a low profile.

694
00:42:34,247 --> 00:42:38,686
Those boys want the sturgeon,
those boys get the sturgeon."

695
00:42:38,730 --> 00:42:40,035
We don't understand
the rules here.

696
00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:43,299
We have to be a little bit
careful."

697
00:42:43,343 --> 00:42:45,171
And when we were there,
we were getting good press,

698
00:42:45,214 --> 00:42:46,520
we were on TV
and what have you.

699
00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:50,219
And we get an invitation
from the army

700
00:42:50,263 --> 00:42:52,874
to come and visit.

701
00:42:52,918 --> 00:42:54,397
It was an invitation,
but it was not one

702
00:42:54,441 --> 00:42:55,964
we really could turn down.

703
00:42:56,008 --> 00:42:58,227
So, Howard and I went
with Billy, our bodyguard,

704
00:42:58,271 --> 00:42:59,794
and Paul, our bodyguard.

705
00:42:59,838 --> 00:43:03,406
Howard: Gushin and Tikhonov
prepped us

706
00:43:03,450 --> 00:43:05,626
for the meeting,
and we went in.

707
00:43:05,670 --> 00:43:09,630
It was like going into a vault, within a vault, within a vault.

708
00:43:09,674 --> 00:43:12,894
Tom: As we come into the room,
all the doors close

709
00:43:12,938 --> 00:43:15,593
and at each door is a guy
with a machine gun.

710
00:43:15,636 --> 00:43:18,552
And we weren't sure if they were
protecting us or keeping us in,

711
00:43:18,596 --> 00:43:19,771
but there we were.

712
00:43:19,814 --> 00:43:24,253
And in walks the General.

713
00:43:24,297 --> 00:43:27,996
And he was not a... He just seemed like he's in a bad mood.

714
00:43:35,569 --> 00:43:37,702
And then, I said,
"It's an honor to be here."

715
00:43:37,745 --> 00:43:42,402
I gave him my little speech
and there's a deadly silence.

716
00:43:44,839 --> 00:43:47,363
All of sudden,
he takes his fist.

717
00:43:47,407 --> 00:43:49,583
I think, this guy might be
hitting me.

718
00:43:49,627 --> 00:43:53,848
And he took his fist
and he pounded it on the table.

719
00:43:53,892 --> 00:43:58,461
Howard: I look at Tom and he's
ready to go home.

720
00:43:58,505 --> 00:44:01,160
Tom: He was telling us that
maybe there was American money

721
00:44:01,203 --> 00:44:03,031
and what have you,
but this was the army's team

722
00:44:03,075 --> 00:44:05,730
and it was always gonna be
the army's team.

723
00:44:05,773 --> 00:44:07,819
And then he looks at Tikhonov,
who still was

724
00:44:07,862 --> 00:44:12,562
a full bird Colonel, or whatever
the equivalent is over there...

725
00:44:12,606 --> 00:44:14,173
Tom: And said that if they
didn't do what they were

726
00:44:14,216 --> 00:44:15,957
supposed to do,
they could still be

727
00:44:16,001 --> 00:44:18,307
shipped off to someplace else.

728
00:44:18,351 --> 00:44:20,919
Howard: Then, he looks
at Gushin, and he said,

729
00:44:20,962 --> 00:44:23,748
"Gushin, you're so drunk
all the time."

730
00:44:23,791 --> 00:44:26,489
He said, "It's about time
that you served in the army."

731
00:44:26,533 --> 00:44:30,276
Now, Gushin couldn't
as much laced up a boot,

732
00:44:30,319 --> 00:44:32,321
much less serve in the army.

733
00:44:32,365 --> 00:44:34,846
And then, at some point,
he sort of dismissed us.

734
00:44:34,889 --> 00:44:36,848
The guys at the door
with the machine guns

735
00:44:36,891 --> 00:44:39,677
opened the doors and we left.

736
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,767
Howard: So now we go back
to their office

737
00:44:42,810 --> 00:44:44,943
and these guys start
lacing down the vodka

738
00:44:44,986 --> 00:44:46,684
like you couldn't believe.

739
00:44:46,727 --> 00:44:49,730
"Oh, thank God, that's over!"
they said.

740
00:44:49,774 --> 00:44:51,863
That was our meeting
with the Minister of Defense.

741
00:44:51,906 --> 00:44:53,865
The rest of the trip was great.

742
00:45:15,408 --> 00:45:18,106
Steven: During the break
in the Russian season,

743
00:45:18,150 --> 00:45:21,153
we took our team
on a 14 city marketing tour

744
00:45:21,196 --> 00:45:25,026
to play the International
Hockey League.

745
00:45:25,070 --> 00:45:27,942
We took these young kids,
that had never even been out

746
00:45:27,986 --> 00:45:31,816
of their own hometowns,
into America.

747
00:45:33,948 --> 00:45:35,994
We took them to Disneyland.

748
00:45:36,037 --> 00:45:41,869
They were, literally, having the greatest time in the world.

749
00:45:41,913 --> 00:45:46,178
At the same time, they didn't know the cultures, the customs.

750
00:45:46,221 --> 00:45:47,657
They didn't know how to act.

751
00:45:51,052 --> 00:45:54,229
It was just a comedy of errors.

752
00:45:54,273 --> 00:45:56,710
Steven: I remember one day,
one of the kids showed up

753
00:45:56,754 --> 00:45:59,800
without his jacket,
$200 beautiful

754
00:45:59,844 --> 00:46:02,847
Russian Penguins jacket
that I made for the team.

755
00:46:02,890 --> 00:46:06,198
I asked him what happened
to his jacket and he told me,

756
00:46:06,241 --> 00:46:11,638
"Well, I traded it for a sexual
favor after the game."

757
00:46:14,293 --> 00:46:17,078
Announcer 15: The Russian
Penguins are not looking good.

758
00:46:17,122 --> 00:46:20,342
Victor: The team wasn't
the CSKA of the past.

759
00:46:22,475 --> 00:46:24,216
Announcer 16: They're looking
more and more like an army

760
00:46:24,259 --> 00:46:26,044
of penguins.

761
00:46:27,741 --> 00:46:32,964
USA! USA! USA!

762
00:46:33,007 --> 00:46:35,488
Announcer 16: Another loss
for the Russian Penguins.

763
00:46:35,531 --> 00:46:38,621
Viktor Tikhonov looks like
somebody kicked his dog.

764
00:46:38,665 --> 00:46:40,188
He's not used to this.

765
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,498
Victor: Viktor Tikhonov
was very disappointed

766
00:46:45,541 --> 00:46:47,326
with the players he had.

767
00:46:47,369 --> 00:46:50,982
By that time,
Russia's Soviet best players,

768
00:46:51,025 --> 00:46:52,940
they moved to the NHL already.

769
00:46:52,984 --> 00:46:55,160
It was upsetting
to Tikhonov and Gushin.

770
00:46:55,203 --> 00:46:58,641
They felt like they had been
raped by the NHL.

771
00:46:58,685 --> 00:47:00,252
Director: If the team was bad,

772
00:47:00,295 --> 00:47:04,517
then why was Disney interested
in investing?

773
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,867
Eisner didn't care
about the hockey.

774
00:47:06,911 --> 00:47:10,566
Eisner's a marketing guy,
we were marketing guys.

775
00:47:10,610 --> 00:47:12,307
And so he was really

776
00:47:12,351 --> 00:47:14,701
not concerned with the quality
of play on the ice.

777
00:47:14,744 --> 00:47:16,529
They wanted to have
a royalty deal and they wanted

778
00:47:16,572 --> 00:47:19,837
to have a deal that if a movie
was made, how that would work.

779
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:21,186
That was just going
to be a good thing for hockey,

780
00:47:21,229 --> 00:47:23,188
a good thing for us. More money.

781
00:47:23,231 --> 00:47:25,233
Male narrator: Order the jersey or the cap and receive

782
00:47:25,277 --> 00:47:28,584
a free Russian Penguin mini
hockey stick by calling now.

783
00:47:28,628 --> 00:47:30,499
Join the revolution.

784
00:47:30,543 --> 00:47:33,807
Uh, the idea was that, yes,
you don't have star players,

785
00:47:33,851 --> 00:47:35,113
but we have to make the stars.

786
00:47:35,156 --> 00:47:37,593
We need the stars
for the sponsors,

787
00:47:37,637 --> 00:47:40,031
for the media, for the press.

788
00:47:40,074 --> 00:47:43,556
You have Sasha Kharlamov, who is the son of Valeri Kharlamov,

789
00:47:43,599 --> 00:47:45,340
a hockey hero.

790
00:47:45,384 --> 00:47:47,038
And Tikhonov and Gushin
were saying,

791
00:47:47,081 --> 00:47:48,735
but he's not
a good hockey player.

792
00:47:48,778 --> 00:47:52,391
But Steven Warshaw said,
"Who cares? He's Kharlamov.

793
00:47:52,434 --> 00:47:54,523
We have to do,
we have to make him a star."

794
00:47:54,567 --> 00:47:57,135
And the Russians side
they couldn't understand it,

795
00:47:57,178 --> 00:48:00,181
but he doesn't play very well.
Well, he's great.

796
00:48:00,225 --> 00:48:03,315
He is the great player. Let's
start with this.

797
00:48:05,534 --> 00:48:08,624
Tikhonov kept talking about
the essence of it.

798
00:48:08,668 --> 00:48:12,063
That the essence is hockey
and if there's no hockey,

799
00:48:12,106 --> 00:48:14,761
no sense doing something
around it.

800
00:48:16,632 --> 00:48:18,069
They didn't want any of this,
they didn't want

801
00:48:18,112 --> 00:48:20,462
any of the madness.
They wanted pure hockey.

802
00:48:20,506 --> 00:48:22,987
Victor: And sometimes he was
even irritated, like I said,

803
00:48:23,030 --> 00:48:27,426
with all this American Western
farce around nothing.

804
00:48:27,469 --> 00:48:30,211
We had to convince him
that it's the only way

805
00:48:30,255 --> 00:48:31,952
for CSKA to survive.

806
00:48:31,996 --> 00:48:35,956
So we created the world's first
endorsement for a Russian.

807
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,611
Viktor Tikhonov
for Vick's Cough Drops.

808
00:48:38,654 --> 00:48:40,874
Vik for Vick's, obviously.

809
00:49:01,025 --> 00:49:02,983
Steven: And that television
commercial ran

810
00:49:03,027 --> 00:49:04,680
thousands of times.

811
00:49:04,724 --> 00:49:05,899
Director: Did he like
the commercial?

812
00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:07,118
- At the end of the day?
- He did.

813
00:49:07,161 --> 00:49:08,510
He needed a makeover
and this was

814
00:49:08,554 --> 00:49:10,295
a great thing for his
reputation.

815
00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:24,874
Steven: Without us,
he didn't have players

816
00:49:24,918 --> 00:49:27,660
and he didn't have ice
and he didn't have equipment

817
00:49:27,703 --> 00:49:31,794
and he didn't have jerseys
and he didn't have tours.

818
00:49:31,838 --> 00:49:34,884
Al Gore: While you can't
anticipate the obstacles,

819
00:49:34,928 --> 00:49:37,235
they can be overcome

820
00:49:37,278 --> 00:49:39,977
if you have imagination
and persistence.

821
00:49:40,020 --> 00:49:45,025
Attendance for the new Moscow
Penguins is up 400 percent.

822
00:49:45,069 --> 00:49:47,941
I went to a hockey game,
they do an excellent job

823
00:49:47,985 --> 00:49:51,292
of presenting the game
to the audience.

824
00:50:05,654 --> 00:50:07,656
Reporter 28: We are Penguins
now, he says,

825
00:50:07,700 --> 00:50:10,398
but in our souls,
we are Russian Bear.

826
00:50:12,226 --> 00:50:13,575
Howard: It's like anything
else...

827
00:50:13,619 --> 00:50:15,925
Something you do and it works

828
00:50:15,969 --> 00:50:18,058
and it gets a lot of attention,

829
00:50:18,102 --> 00:50:20,582
everybody then wants to get
in on the act.

830
00:50:23,933 --> 00:50:26,806
Victor: Some small
Russian companies,

831
00:50:26,849 --> 00:50:28,808
they started coming in,

832
00:50:31,506 --> 00:50:34,292
because they saw the success
and they wanted to have

833
00:50:34,335 --> 00:50:36,033
some part of it.

834
00:50:36,076 --> 00:50:37,947
Tom: They were all companies
that were buying boxes

835
00:50:37,991 --> 00:50:39,645
and stuff like that,
but we weren't quite sure

836
00:50:39,688 --> 00:50:41,473
who owned the companies.

837
00:50:42,735 --> 00:50:44,041
This-- this was the mob.

838
00:50:46,521 --> 00:50:49,002
Guys would come into the arena
with long trench coats

839
00:50:49,046 --> 00:50:51,091
and sawed off shotguns
under them.

840
00:50:58,316 --> 00:51:00,709
Steven: One night,
we made an announcement

841
00:51:00,753 --> 00:51:03,582
that one fan
is gonna drive away

842
00:51:03,625 --> 00:51:07,542
in a Jeep... guaranteed tonight.

843
00:51:07,586 --> 00:51:09,718
And the place went crazy.

844
00:51:12,156 --> 00:51:14,897
Finally, we were down to
two guys after a shootout.

845
00:51:14,941 --> 00:51:17,552
One of the keys would open
the door, the other wouldn't.

846
00:51:17,596 --> 00:51:21,295
And the kid on the passenger
side pops the door open,

847
00:51:21,339 --> 00:51:25,169
starts going crazy.
The fans went nuts.

848
00:51:25,212 --> 00:51:29,477
He was so scared that he was
gonna be robbed that night

849
00:51:29,521 --> 00:51:32,828
and have his car stolen,
that he negotiated a deal

850
00:51:32,872 --> 00:51:37,050
with the dealer on the ice
and actually got $10,000 cash

851
00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:40,140
instead of a $30,000 car.

852
00:51:40,184 --> 00:51:43,535
One day, we got a phone call
that the tax police

853
00:51:43,578 --> 00:51:46,712
were in their offices. And we
said, w-- what does that mean?

854
00:51:46,755 --> 00:51:48,366
And he said, well,

855
00:51:48,409 --> 00:51:49,845
there were literally guys
with machine guns

856
00:51:49,889 --> 00:51:51,630
in there
and they wanted money.

857
00:51:51,673 --> 00:51:53,501
Steven: And if you didn't pay
them, they would hijack

858
00:51:53,545 --> 00:51:55,851
your trucks,
they'd steal your product,

859
00:51:55,895 --> 00:51:57,462
and they would destroy
your business.

860
00:51:57,505 --> 00:51:58,898
And so we said, well,
what can we do?

861
00:51:58,941 --> 00:52:00,508
We can't... You know, we'll try
to help out,

862
00:52:00,552 --> 00:52:01,988
but we just can't ship
money to you, you're in a room,

863
00:52:02,031 --> 00:52:03,685
a closed room
with guys with machine guns.

864
00:52:03,729 --> 00:52:05,774
Director: Was it part of
the government or was it,

865
00:52:05,818 --> 00:52:09,648
maybe, some other entity here?

866
00:52:09,691 --> 00:52:10,953
Who-- who knows.

867
00:52:31,191 --> 00:52:33,889
Reporter 29: There are so many
troubles here on so many fronts,

868
00:52:33,933 --> 00:52:38,198
including a new degree of fear
about corruption and crime.

869
00:52:38,242 --> 00:52:40,461
Reporter 30: Guns are being sold
in increasing numbers.

870
00:52:40,505 --> 00:52:41,897
Reporter 31: The underworld
now controls

871
00:52:41,941 --> 00:52:43,769
40 percent of the nation's
economy.

872
00:52:43,812 --> 00:52:45,640
Reporter 30: Nearly 60
major figures

873
00:52:45,684 --> 00:52:48,730
have been victims of contract
killings in the past year.

874
00:52:50,993 --> 00:52:53,387
It got dangerous.

875
00:52:55,302 --> 00:52:57,478
I mean, one of the concessions
guys was machine gunned

876
00:52:57,522 --> 00:52:59,219
outside our building.

877
00:53:01,656 --> 00:53:04,093
This doesn't happen, typically, in, you know, New York

878
00:53:04,137 --> 00:53:06,270
or Chicago or Montreal.

879
00:53:06,313 --> 00:53:08,402
You don't usually have your
concession guy shot down.

880
00:53:15,235 --> 00:53:18,107
Steven: All the Russian hockey
players told me.

881
00:53:18,151 --> 00:53:19,631
They said, you know,
you wanna be friends

882
00:53:19,674 --> 00:53:21,415
with these mafia guys.

883
00:53:21,459 --> 00:53:23,200
You want to win them over.

884
00:53:25,114 --> 00:53:26,594
Tom: We became concerned.

885
00:53:26,638 --> 00:53:28,248
One of the things we were
concerned about was,

886
00:53:28,292 --> 00:53:29,858
literally, you know, his safety

887
00:53:29,902 --> 00:53:31,947
and the safety of
our people there.

888
00:53:31,991 --> 00:53:34,385
We always would say
the same thing to him,

889
00:53:34,428 --> 00:53:36,778
"Are you in danger?"

890
00:54:02,282 --> 00:54:06,155
Victor: Friends of Gushin,
they started coming in,

891
00:54:06,199 --> 00:54:09,115
saying that you are being
cheated by the Americans.

892
00:54:09,158 --> 00:54:11,291
They even approached me,
saying that,

893
00:54:11,335 --> 00:54:14,338
"You are getting this small
amount of money

894
00:54:14,381 --> 00:54:17,079
and you should be getting
three times as much.

895
00:54:17,123 --> 00:54:21,214
And if we take over,
everything would be different

896
00:54:21,258 --> 00:54:25,871
for all of us." They even
managed to talk Gushin into it.

897
00:54:25,914 --> 00:54:30,005
Uh, Gushin had very big
influence on Tikhonov,

898
00:54:30,049 --> 00:54:32,878
in terms of things
around hockey.

899
00:54:32,921 --> 00:54:35,359
And if they convinced Gushin,

900
00:54:35,402 --> 00:54:39,276
he immediately would convince
Tikhonov.

901
00:54:45,325 --> 00:54:47,458
Steven: I'll never forget,
we had Nike coming in

902
00:54:47,501 --> 00:54:49,460
from all over the world.

903
00:54:49,503 --> 00:54:53,072
And it was a Nike night
and we had Nike promotions.

904
00:54:54,769 --> 00:54:58,556
Tikhonov and Gushin cut
Nike's logo out of the ice

905
00:54:58,599 --> 00:55:01,820
and tore their signs up
and their rink boards,

906
00:55:01,863 --> 00:55:03,778
and replaced it with Adidas.

907
00:55:03,822 --> 00:55:06,303
And I got in the next morning
and I looked at them and I said,

908
00:55:06,346 --> 00:55:10,698
"Why would you do this? They're
paying us $100,000 a year.

909
00:55:10,742 --> 00:55:13,745
Why would you take money
out of your own pockets?"

910
00:55:13,788 --> 00:55:16,617
And they said,
"Because it's our fucking team."

911
00:55:16,661 --> 00:55:18,880
He did it to prove his power.

912
00:55:26,758 --> 00:55:29,151
It was serious business.

913
00:55:29,195 --> 00:55:31,850
And when people are doing
serious business,

914
00:55:31,893 --> 00:55:36,245
they show different sides
of their characters.

915
00:55:38,552 --> 00:55:42,382
They had a guy from the mafia
who worked for a company

916
00:55:42,426 --> 00:55:47,126
called Mikrodin, sit
in my office every single day,

917
00:55:47,169 --> 00:55:49,607
watching everything I did,

918
00:55:49,650 --> 00:55:53,741
photocopying everything
I sent out.

919
00:55:53,785 --> 00:55:56,091
I once asked Valery Gushin,

920
00:55:56,135 --> 00:55:58,833
"Who are they?
What do they do?"

921
00:55:58,877 --> 00:56:01,619
He said, "Don't ask questions
or you'll be hanging

922
00:56:01,662 --> 00:56:03,925
from your thumbs
by the top of the arena."

923
00:56:56,500 --> 00:56:59,241
What I loved about Gushin is,
he had a contagious laugh.

924
00:56:59,285 --> 00:57:03,463
He had a great laugh, despite
being a real vicious guy.

925
00:57:03,507 --> 00:57:05,813
He had this really soft side
about him.

926
00:57:05,857 --> 00:57:07,032
The same with Tikhonov.

927
00:57:07,075 --> 00:57:09,643
But they tried to destroy us,

928
00:57:09,687 --> 00:57:11,428
so it's hard to be in love
with somebody

929
00:57:11,471 --> 00:57:12,907
that's trying to kill you
all the time.

930
00:57:59,780 --> 00:58:02,000
Director: Did you know that
there was sort of

931
00:58:02,043 --> 00:58:04,524
mafia around the building?

932
00:58:04,568 --> 00:58:09,311
No, not 'til the end. I wasn't
paying that much attention.

933
00:58:09,355 --> 00:58:11,531
We were doing the movie
in Pittsburgh

934
00:58:11,575 --> 00:58:13,141
called "Sudden Death."

935
00:58:13,185 --> 00:58:16,318
Male narrator: Tonight,
17,000 hockey fans

936
00:58:16,362 --> 00:58:19,583
have been taken hostage,
but only one of them knows it.

937
00:58:19,626 --> 00:58:21,149
I'm gonna try to stop you.

938
00:58:24,283 --> 00:58:27,068
Male narrator: Now he has more
to lose than anyone.

939
00:58:35,599 --> 00:58:36,948
"Sudden Death."

940
00:58:38,993 --> 00:58:41,213
Yeah, it was a little crazy,
especially when we, you know,

941
00:58:41,256 --> 00:58:43,302
got introduced
to our future partners.

942
00:58:44,999 --> 00:58:46,871
Howard and I had
one particular meeting

943
00:58:46,914 --> 00:58:48,742
with, uh, Gushin and Tikhonov.

944
00:58:48,786 --> 00:58:51,919
They came to New York and we
got introduced to somebody

945
00:58:51,963 --> 00:58:54,922
who, we were told,
was their partner.

946
00:58:54,966 --> 00:58:56,750
See, everything was 50:50.

947
00:58:56,794 --> 00:59:00,232
So we had our 50 percent was
the Pittsburgh Penguins,

948
00:59:00,275 --> 00:59:02,147
theirs was supposed to be
Gushin and Tikhonov.

949
00:59:02,190 --> 00:59:03,975
And all of a sudden,
they introduced us to somebody

950
00:59:04,018 --> 00:59:06,934
who they said was now their
partner, on their piece.

951
00:59:06,978 --> 00:59:08,936
To me, these guys,
they weren't telling me

952
00:59:08,980 --> 00:59:10,764
that there would be
three parts in it.

953
00:59:10,808 --> 00:59:13,941
No, no, they were telling me
that now Pittsburgh was out.

954
00:59:13,985 --> 00:59:16,727
They did their job.
They played their role.

955
00:59:16,770 --> 00:59:20,600
We thank them very much for
arranging everything for us,

956
00:59:20,644 --> 00:59:22,384
but now they're cheating us,

957
00:59:22,428 --> 00:59:24,386
because they're getting
all the money from it.

958
00:59:24,430 --> 00:59:27,041
And I knew it was a lie, because
Pittsburgh was not getting

959
00:59:27,085 --> 00:59:30,131
any money from it. They were
paying, they were losing money.

960
00:59:30,175 --> 00:59:32,220
Director: Did you get a bad
feeling from them of--

961
00:59:32,264 --> 00:59:34,614
Yes. Um...

962
00:59:34,658 --> 00:59:37,399
There is no question

963
00:59:37,443 --> 00:59:40,838
that you were in there
at your own risk,

964
00:59:40,881 --> 00:59:44,624
if you weren't going to play
their game of paying people off.

965
00:59:44,668 --> 00:59:47,888
And there is no question, they
were there looking for a payoff.

966
00:59:47,932 --> 00:59:50,412
Steven: We felt like
we were losing control.

967
00:59:50,456 --> 00:59:53,024
Tom: And we were concerned
about the safety of our money.

968
00:59:53,067 --> 00:59:55,113
You know this was
a big investment.

969
00:59:55,156 --> 00:59:57,637
Steven: I said
to Valery Gushin,

970
00:59:57,681 --> 01:00:03,425
we're expecting you to steal
$100,000, $200,000 a year.

971
01:00:03,469 --> 01:00:07,473
But you stole a million
from us last year,

972
01:00:07,516 --> 01:00:10,607
and our fears were that Disney,

973
01:00:10,650 --> 01:00:12,434
uh, would be the next victim.

974
01:00:15,046 --> 01:00:17,570
Our last resort was to,
was to ask

975
01:00:17,614 --> 01:00:20,442
for help from the Russian army.

976
01:00:20,486 --> 01:00:24,446
We needed them
to protect Disney,

977
01:00:24,490 --> 01:00:27,972
to make Disney certain that
there was no risk involved.

978
01:01:13,017 --> 01:01:15,584
Director: But I mean, if you're
protected by the army, why--

979
01:01:15,628 --> 01:01:17,064
See the point was we weren't.

980
01:01:17,108 --> 01:01:18,631
What we realized is we thought,
you know,

981
01:01:18,675 --> 01:01:19,980
that they would
take care of us. No.

982
01:01:20,024 --> 01:01:21,634
The system there, there were

983
01:01:21,678 --> 01:01:23,331
the army took care of itself,

984
01:01:23,375 --> 01:01:25,420
and then there was this
other group of people,

985
01:01:25,464 --> 01:01:27,988
you know, which I don't know,
we identify as,

986
01:01:28,032 --> 01:01:29,729
what we would call the Mafia.

987
01:01:29,773 --> 01:01:32,079
And businessmen, or is
what they call businessmen.

988
01:01:32,123 --> 01:01:34,865
So, the army was not gonna
protect us from them.

989
01:01:34,908 --> 01:01:36,562
- And we thought that--
Director: Why?

990
01:01:36,605 --> 01:01:38,956
Director: I mean,
they're the law enforcement.

991
01:01:38,999 --> 01:01:41,785
Well, it's not,
this isn't like we have here.

992
01:01:59,411 --> 01:02:01,935
Steven: The Mafia, they were
the banks.

993
01:02:01,979 --> 01:02:03,894
They were everything.

994
01:02:03,937 --> 01:02:05,809
It was the business structure.

995
01:04:01,925 --> 01:04:03,013
Director: Dmitry.

996
01:04:04,928 --> 01:04:06,668
Director: Are they telling us
I've got to get out of here...

997
01:04:10,498 --> 01:04:13,240
Director:
Dmitry, are we alright?

998
01:04:13,284 --> 01:04:15,895
Producer: Keep on walking.
They think it might be a bomb.

999
01:04:15,939 --> 01:04:19,246
Director: Jesus Christ.
That's scary, dude.

1000
01:04:19,290 --> 01:04:21,422
Producer: Yeah. I know...

1001
01:04:28,908 --> 01:04:32,477
How you control people? There're
two ways of controlling them.

1002
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,610
Greed and fear.

1003
01:04:35,654 --> 01:04:40,528
If you, if you don't have greed,
like generally

1004
01:04:40,572 --> 01:04:45,272
as your way of control,

1005
01:04:45,316 --> 01:04:48,536
fear is the one,
the only one you have.

1006
01:05:00,461 --> 01:05:03,203
Alexander: The show was banned
very many times.

1007
01:05:03,247 --> 01:05:04,944
Every week was a fight.

1008
01:05:04,988 --> 01:05:06,815
Director: Did you ever feel
threatened?

1009
01:05:06,859 --> 01:05:09,731
Yeah, I was threatened.
I felt threatened all the time.

1010
01:05:09,775 --> 01:05:11,995
I was attacked.

1011
01:05:12,038 --> 01:05:14,345
They opened criminal cases
against me.

1012
01:05:14,388 --> 01:05:16,956
Director: Who is they opened
criminal cases?

1013
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,306
The state.

1014
01:06:04,003 --> 01:06:05,962
Steven: I don't think the
Russians really ever got it.

1015
01:06:06,005 --> 01:06:08,225
They didn't get it,
'cause if they got it,

1016
01:06:08,268 --> 01:06:09,835
they would have
become commercial

1017
01:06:09,878 --> 01:06:11,619
and they would have ridden
our coattails

1018
01:06:11,663 --> 01:06:14,405
to, you know, as-- as
Michael said, $100 million.

1019
01:06:30,987 --> 01:06:32,379
Um...

1020
01:06:34,512 --> 01:06:37,602
Well, I can call Michael
for you. He may...

1021
01:06:37,645 --> 01:06:39,169
I don't know why he would have
said that

1022
01:06:39,212 --> 01:06:41,606
because he would remember this.

1023
01:06:41,649 --> 01:06:43,260
He would remember this.

1024
01:06:43,303 --> 01:06:46,741
So on one hand, our major
economic reason, you know,

1025
01:06:46,785 --> 01:06:48,830
was being taken away from us.

1026
01:06:48,874 --> 01:06:51,311
And then we had on the other
hand, the strange partner

1027
01:06:51,355 --> 01:06:53,444
getting introduced to us
and so we said,

1028
01:06:53,487 --> 01:06:56,012
"Well, this is not...
We have to stop this."

1029
01:06:56,055 --> 01:06:58,971
Remember, at this point looming
was the fact that we thought

1030
01:06:59,015 --> 01:07:00,146
we'd be getting players
and what have you.

1031
01:07:00,190 --> 01:07:01,669
By the way, that stopped.

1032
01:07:01,713 --> 01:07:03,497
That was the other reason
we had to get out.

1033
01:07:03,541 --> 01:07:06,848
All the teams complained because
they were worried that the--

1034
01:07:06,892 --> 01:07:08,981
Director: All of which teams?
- The National Hockey League.

1035
01:07:09,025 --> 01:07:10,722
They said to the commissioner
and said "You can't let these

1036
01:07:10,765 --> 01:07:12,550
guys do it." Because they
suddenly realized we were gonna

1037
01:07:12,593 --> 01:07:14,769
get all the good
Russian players.

1038
01:07:14,813 --> 01:07:16,423
And what happened of course is

1039
01:07:16,467 --> 01:07:19,339
Stevie was so successful
that they wanted to hire him.

1040
01:07:19,383 --> 01:07:20,949
Steven: They came to me
and said,

1041
01:07:20,993 --> 01:07:23,387
"Why don't you come and work
with the Mafia?

1042
01:07:27,391 --> 01:07:29,958
You don't need Pittsburgh.
We'll take care of you."

1043
01:07:30,002 --> 01:07:33,266
Offering me women
and drugs and an apartment.

1044
01:07:33,310 --> 01:07:34,963
And I asked them how much
they were going to pay me.

1045
01:07:35,007 --> 01:07:36,878
And it was actually less
than the Penguins.

1046
01:07:36,922 --> 01:07:40,360
So I said, "You idiot, I can get my own women, my own drugs.

1047
01:07:40,404 --> 01:07:43,668
Why would I take less money
and work for you

1048
01:07:43,711 --> 01:07:47,454
when I can enjoy my life and get
more money with the Penguins?"

1049
01:07:47,498 --> 01:07:49,587
And they said, "Well if you
don't, we'll kill you."

1050
01:07:49,630 --> 01:07:52,329
And I said, "Really?
How much is a hit on my life?"

1051
01:07:52,372 --> 01:07:55,810
He said, "$6500."

1052
01:07:55,854 --> 01:07:58,857
It was enough to tell me to get the hell out of Russia.

1053
01:08:09,563 --> 01:08:13,132
Not too long after we left,

1054
01:08:13,176 --> 01:08:17,528
four major figures in our
hockey sphere were killed.

1055
01:08:19,530 --> 01:08:23,099
Our team photographer
took a photo of a table,

1056
01:08:23,142 --> 01:08:25,275
but behind that table
was a big mobster

1057
01:08:25,318 --> 01:08:28,843
who thought
he was in the frame.

1058
01:08:28,887 --> 01:08:30,715
So the next day,
on his way to work,

1059
01:08:30,758 --> 01:08:33,109
he got five bullets
in his head.

1060
01:08:35,981 --> 01:08:40,725
Alexander Osadchi was
a San Jose draft pick.

1061
01:08:40,768 --> 01:08:44,163
Found him in his apartment dead one morning.

1062
01:08:44,207 --> 01:08:48,559
No trace, no bruises, nothing.

1063
01:08:48,602 --> 01:08:49,560
Just dead.

1064
01:09:08,144 --> 01:09:09,623
Steven:
The Mafia actually killed

1065
01:09:09,667 --> 01:09:12,191
one of our assistant coaches
one day.

1066
01:09:12,235 --> 01:09:14,541
They were laying in wait
in the parking lot

1067
01:09:14,585 --> 01:09:17,283
and they put five bullets in his
head right in front of his wife.

1068
01:09:24,856 --> 01:09:28,555
The head of the Russian Hockey
Federation, Valentin Sinch

1069
01:09:28,599 --> 01:09:31,341
was also gunned down.

1070
01:09:31,384 --> 01:09:33,908
Who knows what would have
happened if we had stayed?

1071
01:09:33,952 --> 01:09:35,432
That could have been us.

1072
01:09:58,977 --> 01:10:02,198
Alexander:
Vladislav Listyev.

1073
01:10:02,241 --> 01:10:04,983
It's an awful story for me.

1074
01:10:08,900 --> 01:10:11,207
Director: Were you a close
friend of his or...

1075
01:10:12,077 --> 01:10:13,209
Right.

1076
01:10:17,125 --> 01:10:21,129
Still not understanding
why that happened.

1077
01:10:21,173 --> 01:10:23,393
Because I don't know.

1078
01:10:29,007 --> 01:10:33,490
Victor: If you compare
these business killings

1079
01:10:33,533 --> 01:10:36,971
to the killings under Stalin,

1080
01:10:37,015 --> 01:10:39,060
you cannot compare it.

1081
01:10:39,104 --> 01:10:41,802
This criminality and...

1082
01:10:43,587 --> 01:10:45,023
all the things you mentioned.

1083
01:10:45,066 --> 01:10:49,767
I just accepted them
as something inevitable,

1084
01:10:49,810 --> 01:10:54,293
but, but we have to live
with it and I was so happy

1085
01:10:54,337 --> 01:10:56,991
that the whole thing
with the Soviet Union

1086
01:10:57,035 --> 01:10:59,080
and communism was over.

1087
01:10:59,124 --> 01:11:00,995
That I was ready
to accept anything.

1088
01:12:46,536 --> 01:12:49,669
The pre-eminent mission
of our new government

1089
01:12:49,713 --> 01:12:53,369
is to give all Americans
an opportunity.

1090
01:14:27,071 --> 01:14:30,422
Director: Did you get any, last
night, did you sleep much?

1091
01:14:30,466 --> 01:14:33,643
I n-- I never sleep.
So it's a normal night. Yeah.

1092
01:14:33,686 --> 01:14:35,340
Director: You never do?

1093
01:14:35,383 --> 01:14:38,386
I told you this condition
is killing me, too. Yeah.

1094
01:15:46,106 --> 01:15:49,806
Look, here's a guy.
Oh, shit, no light on.

1095
01:15:53,461 --> 01:15:55,812
Although I can't prove it,
I'm quite certain that

1096
01:15:55,855 --> 01:16:01,078
I got a toxic multi-nodal goiter
in my neck that's choked

1097
01:16:01,121 --> 01:16:04,603
my thyroid from my stint
in the former Soviet Union.

1098
01:16:04,647 --> 01:16:07,475
And, uh, I'm suffering
to this day.

1099
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:19,487
Steven: It's the most
ambivalent feeling

1100
01:16:19,531 --> 01:16:22,316
I've had in my life because I
fell in love with somebody

1101
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:23,796
that didn't love me back.

1102
01:16:47,472 --> 01:16:52,303
♪ Start wearing purple
wearing purple ♪

1103
01:16:52,346 --> 01:16:56,916
♪ Start wearing purple
for me now ♪

1104
01:16:56,960 --> 01:17:02,705
♪ All your sanity and wits
they will all vanish I promise ♪

1105
01:17:02,748 --> 01:17:05,359
♪ It's just a matter of time

1106
01:17:05,403 --> 01:17:10,626
♪ So yeah start wearing purple
wearing purple ♪

1107
01:17:12,192 --> 01:17:16,414
♪ Start wearing purple
for me now ♪

1108
01:17:16,457 --> 01:17:22,115
♪ All your sanity and wits
they will all vanish I promise ♪

1109
01:17:22,159 --> 01:17:24,683
♪ It's just a matter of time

1110
01:17:24,727 --> 01:17:27,686
♪ I know you
since you were a twenty ♪

1111
01:17:27,730 --> 01:17:34,301
♪ I was twenty and thought
that some years from now ♪

1112
01:17:34,345 --> 01:17:39,132
♪ A purple little little lady
will be perfect ♪

1113
01:17:39,176 --> 01:17:41,744
♪ For dirty old
and useless clown ♪

1114
01:17:41,787 --> 01:17:47,314
♪ So yeah start wearing purple
wearing purple ♪

1115
01:17:47,358 --> 01:17:48,925
♪ La la la la la la la

1116
01:17:48,968 --> 01:17:53,016
♪ Start wearing purple
for me now ♪

1117
01:17:53,059 --> 01:17:58,674
♪ All your sanity and wits
they will all vanish I promise ♪

1118
01:17:58,717 --> 01:18:01,328
♪ 'Cause it's just
a matter of time ♪

1119
01:18:01,372 --> 01:18:06,072
♪ I know it all from
Diogenis to the Foucault ♪

1120
01:18:06,116 --> 01:18:10,729
♪ From Lozgechkin to Paspartu

1121
01:18:20,260 --> 01:18:25,004
♪ Start wearing purple
wearing purple ♪

1122
01:18:25,048 --> 01:18:29,356
♪ Start wearing purple
for me now ♪

1123
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:34,797
♪ All your sanity and wits
they will all vanish I promise ♪

1124
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:38,017
♪ 'Cause it's just
a matter of time ♪

1125
01:18:38,061 --> 01:18:39,758
♪ So yeah uh ah uh ah

1126
01:18:39,802 --> 01:18:45,155
♪ Start wearing purple
wearing purple ♪

1127
01:18:45,198 --> 01:18:50,464
♪ Start wearing purple
for me now ♪

1128
01:18:56,035 --> 01:19:01,649
♪ So why don't you start
wearing purple? ♪

1129
01:19:01,693 --> 01:19:07,786
♪ Why don't you start
wearing purple? ♪

1130
01:19:10,963 --> 01:19:14,837
♪ Start wearing purple

1131
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:20,668
♪ For me now

1132
01:19:31,070 --> 01:19:36,772
♪ All your sanity and wits
they will all vanish I promise ♪

1133
01:19:36,815 --> 01:19:39,209
♪ 'Cause it's just
a matter of time ♪

1134
01:19:39,252 --> 01:19:42,516
♪ So Vio-- Vio-- Violetta!

1135
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:44,083
♪ Etta! ♪