Viktor Kortchnoi: Persona non grata

Artikelnummer: A-1129

1981, 148 Seiten, kartoniert, englisch

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"Grey opens and wins" - this was the title given by one chess columnist to his report on the match between Karpov and Kortchnoi, or rather the match between Kortchnoi and the Soviet Union together with its numerous friends. The House of Freedom in America once produced a map of the world on which the totalitarian countries and those with dictatorships were coloured black whilst the free countries were left white. Unfortunately, this optimistic black-and-white view of the world is no longer accurate. After ten years of gradual surrender, called detante, the dominant colour on the map is grey: the grey areas of Soviet influence. How could the apolitical figure of Viktor Kortchnoi have known he would land in the thick of this struggle when he chose the distant "non-aligned" country of the Philippines?

Viktor Kortchnoi's new book is not so much about the match for the World Chess Championship as about the sorry State of the contemporary world, at least three quarters of which is by now dependent on the USSR. Is there anything surprising about this? The concept of "fair play" simply has no meaning in the USSR, where everything is political - be it science, art, or sport. Every achievement is proof of the advantages of socialism. Every defeat is a blow to its prestige. Anyone who tries to preserve his independence in any sphere, in any matter whatsoever, is inevitably declared to be an enemy of the whole regime. The entire might of the Soviet Union, the entire State machinery, is immediate-ly mobilized to combat this desperate dare-devil. And from the very beginning, he is up against the unequal struggle of one man against the whole System. Any means are justified as long as the Opposition is crushed. There is no room for "fair play."

Produkteigenschaft	Wert
Medium:	Buch, kartoniert
Sprache:	englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:	1981
Seitenanzahl:	148

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