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- From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld)
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.060957.17312@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:09:57 GMT
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- Well, I really don't feel like continuing the discussion with that
- D(ull) M(oronic) C(lown), so I'll jump to a so-far-unmentioned thing about
- the match. Many people have asked what good the match was for Yugoslavia, if
- it took $5M _out_ of the country, and many of them were not that convinced
- that the propaganda effects were sufficient.
-
- So far, nobody has pointed out that the match had a big positive effect on
- the morale of Serbian people - note that chess is much more popular there
- than here in the US. It is a situation opposite to the one that arose when
- Yugoslavia was banned from the European Soccer Championship - it was the
- hardest consequence of the war that had hit the Serbs up to that point!
-
- But now they were entertained, placated, their attention drawn away from
- their growing economic misery, and their wish to overthrow the fascist
- government weakened. They even re-elected them!
-
- Now this was worth (for Milosevic&Co.) far more than $5M.
-
- I hope there is not many more than one person who doesn't see the difference
- between participating in this entertainment business and just playing chess.
-
- Sven
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