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Blood in the Water (1956 Hungary v. USSR Olympic Water Polo Match)

Blood in the Water (1956 Hungary v. USSR Olympic Water Polo Match)

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Rachna is gonna need Rachel to pull on her water wings. It’s the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, and the Hungarian water polo team is distracted. Back home, the Soviets have brutally crushed a popular democratic uprising in Budapest. So when they found themselves going against Russia for the gold, the revolution followed them to the pool.

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