Viktor Korchnoi: Chess Grandmaster, Soviet Defector, Pugnacious Competitor - The American Spectator

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Viktor Korchnoi: Chess Grandmaster, Soviet Defector, Pugnacious Competitor

by Doug Bandow

June 13, 2016, 12:00 AM

Almost anything associated with the Cold War appears to be an anachronism these days. Today’s college graduates never saw the hammer and sickle fly over the Kremlin, the deadly wall that cut Berlin in...

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