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...current tension between the allies, the report says, dates back to “11/9,” the day the Berlin Wall fell and began the fall of the Soviet Union, the nation which much of Europe and the United States had allied to oppose. The alliance then began to lose a sense of common purpose, thus becoming “a victim of its own success,” according to the report...
Brzezinski couldn’t resist certain allusions to Soviet-era hostilities. While the Balkans were fought over during the Cold War, Brzezinski dubbed Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine the “New Global Balkans” due to America’s interests there...
...Bobby Fischer Goes to War (Ecco; 342 pages), David Edmonds and John Eidinow tell the story of Fischer's most famous match, the 1972 world championship in Reykjavik. Fischer faced Soviet grand master Boris Spassky in a chess game that was not only an epic staring match between two intellectual gladiators but also the focus of all kinds of weird, free-floating cold war cultural-political energy. It was the Rumble in the Jungle and the Cuban missile crisis all rolled into...
...drama was hopelessly miscast. Fischer, the champion of the American way, was an antisocial, anti-Semitic egomaniac who complained about the lighting, the auditorium, the prize money, even the marble the chessboard was made of. Spassky, the cog in the Soviet machine, was a genial, sensitive fellow who liked a drink once in a while. He was Ali to Fischer's Foreman. Of course, Fischer ate him alive. Bobby Fischer Goes to War tells the story in fine, brisk style, interpreting the red-hot chess-fu action--the Ruy Lopez opening! The Nimzo-Indian defense!--for us nongeniuses and conveying...
...Russian President Boris Yeltsin. A hero for leading his country out of communism in the early '90s, he is now, amid economic ruin and a war in Chechnya, the goat. Polls show him trailing not only his main opponent, communist Gennadi Zyuganov, but also Joseph Stalin, the long-dead Soviet dictator...