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Date Posted: Sun, March 07 2004, 10:40:19
Author: Katerina
Subject: Still controversial
In reply to: Peter van der Hoog 's message, "Re: Some of the details seem to be controversial" on Sun, March 07 2004, 5:33:43

>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 not so. Have u heard of "closed" cities where foreigners were not allowed to go? There were a lot of such cities where secret plants and laboratories were located. Also foreigners lived in big cities, like Moscow and St-Petersburg and did not have any idea of how provincial ppl live. There were many things they did not know.

>Yes, I agree. But Spasski�s generation had some
>reasons to fear and mistrust people, don't you agree?

That is all understandable, but why should Soviet grandmasters help Fischer? And if they decided to help him they could do it in Iceland too. Also: if the match between a Soviet and an American is played in the USSR, of course the Soviet chessplayer has all the support, and it is easier for him to play. And in his native country Spassky also would have a lot of fans. No, I don't agree with the authors.

>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.

Look: if the campaign towards Fischer took place, it was not Pavlov who started it. It could be somebody from ideological section of the Communist party. And chessplayers, even Botvinnik couldn't have unfluence of them.

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Replies:

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