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Originally Posted by JAW
Yeah thats for sure. But the team was not privately owned enterprise for making profit and the players did not receive huge wages. Just to point out that it is possible to have people working full time with high motivation in planned economy too.
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They were not paid the very high wages of Western star players but they still belonged to the Communist elite. They might have been paid as the men who were technically their "colleagues" in their "day jobs", but playing still earned them privileges and benefits beyond their nominal wages. They were "fat cats" just like party apparatchiks, not your ordinary Soviet coal mine worker. Nobody said the privileged classes in that system did not work hard to maintain or improve their position over the miners.