Gulag Gulagovich Gulagov is a pretty good username.
never ask Kasparov on his position on Columbus or BLM movement
or what Elisha , Pope Gregory VII, Saint Basil of Caesarea, Emperor Jingzong, Euclides, Bacchus and Dionysius all have in common
“Gratismut” is a german compound word made out of the two words “Gratis” (for free)" and “Mut” (courage) that describes the concept of taking a stand for or against something at a point in time when there’s literally no discernible consequences left for doing it
Communism built a society in which an insufferable goober like that is able to spend all their time playing a little game while pretending it’s important. Those tAnKiE sCuM won WW2 so he could play with horsey pieces instead of working.
Kasparov’s grandfather was a staunch communist, but the young Kasparov gradually began to have doubts about the Soviet Union’s political system at age 13 when he travelled abroad for the first time in 1976 to Paris for a chess tournament.[198] In 1981, at age 18, he read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, a copy of which he bought while abroad.
Goober
When you have to read a book to believe your country is evil because your lived experience doesn’t lead you to that conclusion whatsoever
My guess is this douchebag was young, easily impressionable, and absolutely desperate to fit in socially with the rest of the people in the sport.
This is a bad recipe for socialists in sports, because sports people from capitalist countries are going to continue being the majority for a long time. They travel abroad, want to fit in and end up taking on the role of a pick-me. Everyone joining a new community is going to try to fit into that community and the advantage of capitalist hegemony is going to affect socialist sports people, especially because they’re young.
Communist countries are deliberately isolated, and then western propaganda will go “see, they’re missing out on our 18 different flavors of delicious Chef Boyardee!” and to a dumb teenager during soviet stagnation it would be pretty easy to fall for it.
Thats’s like becoming a death to America guy after reading Man in the High Castle
he read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, a copy of which he bought while abroad.
Well there’s your problem. You read a lying antisemitic, lying, trotskyite, saboteur, grifter, and CIA-payed fan-fiction writer’s shitty-ass book
what is it with chess players and being reactionary shitbags
If you have the time and resources to get good at a game like chess and believe the IQ bullshit in chess culture, it’s not that hard to end up a reactionary.
Yep, the elitism for sure. NGL, it’s embarrassing that it’s taken me this long to realize that a lot of reactionaries aren’t “dumb sheeple”, but complete asswipes that think they’re better than everyone else. With the “chess is for smart people” bullshit, no wonder a lot of the top chess players have politics that match their pompous attitudes.
: “I am better than everyone else and therefore people like me deserve special treatment to ensure no rube ‘steals’ power that I earned by birthright.”A lot of chess players are stupid as hell, they’re just really good at chess. There’s a lot of reverence for the game but it’s basically a combination of high level trivia and poker.
I had a guy at work once tell me that chess players were the smartest people on the planet. I told him that if that was true, then they would be doing something other than play a board game. It’s like thinking that being good at StarCraft 2 makes you good at computer programming. Absolutely wild assumptions.
