Author: WotanJugend

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“Chess is like life, only life is a total war, and chess is a limited war.”

-Robert Fischer

Aleksander Alekhine was an outstanding Russian world chess champion, an opponent of Bolshevism, a grandmaster of the Third Reich, the author of an essay on “Aryan and Jewish chess”, and is rightly considered a chess legend. He is not only the only world champion who passed away with this title, but also the owner of the most stormy and tortuous biography of all the world’s chess celebrities. (more…)

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Heart of a Dog is an immortal work by the outstanding Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. Included in the compulsory school curriculum of the Russian Federation, at first glance it may seem that this small book is just a funny comedy in a theatrical format, based on the desire of geneticists of the first half of the twentieth century to breed “new biological species.” (more…)