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Date Posted: Sun, March 07 2004, 5:33:43
Author: Peter van der Hoog
Subject: Re: Some of the details seem to be controversial
In reply to: Katerina 's message, "Re: Some of the details seem to be controversial" on Tue, March 02 2004, 5:01:23

Yes, but cause of Iron curtain western ppl did not know much about the USSR too.

Anybody with interest in the USSR could dig into numerous resources and there where lots of people interested. Many visitors wrote books about their visits, impressions were diverse and not censored. In a certain aspect westerners were better informed about the USSR then the USSR�s themselves.

It is a bit paranoid I think.
Yes, I agree. But Spasski�s generation had some reasons to fear and mistrust people, don't you agree?

I think Melik-Karamov read more Soviet papers and books than the authors and must know the subject better.

The "Fischer goes to war" book gives a very detailed account of the politics behind the campaign. Pavlov made the mistake to support Sjelepin instead of Breznjev and was degraded to head of the Sport Committee. It was Pavlov who instructed a non-chess journalist to write in the chess magazine 64 an article called �The subject is Fischer�. The article was in the Stalinistic style of Pavlov but many members of the Committee found the article embarrassing and a stupid attack. Also the grandmasters despised the article as politic journalism. The members of the Sport Committee made the decision to write from then on only serious and objective articles about Fischer. Personal criticism was forbidden. They obeyed this decision, despite Fischer�s very provocative eruptions, like during the match with Larsen, when Fischer bragged he would smash every Russian. They had to hold back Pavlov to demand an aggressive reply in the Russians press. Nevertheless even the articles that praised Fischer, remember often Fischer�s less praiseworthy qualities. The Russian officials felt genuine annoyance towards Fischer.

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Replies:

Still controversial -- Katerina, Sun, March 07 2004, 10:40:19
- Re: Still controversial -- Peter van der Hoog, Fri, March 12 2004, 19:23:49
  - Re: Still controversial -- Katerina, Sat, March 13 2004, 0:34:03
    - "It depends on the person who informed the authors". -- Todd, Mon, March 29 2004, 20:26:46
      - So, the circle is closed. Those ppl can't be trust for one bit. -- Katerina, Tue, March 30 2004, 2:33:10