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One of Stalin’s lesser lies

Sunday, March 4, 2018 9:58

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Back in 2009 Slate published a piece containing the story about a fake chess match between Stalin and chief of the secret police Nikolai Yezhov.

Chess was a natural fit for the Soviet Union. For one thing, many of its thinkers and leaders were avid chess players. Lenin was a serious player, but Russian author Maxim Gorky claimed Lenin got angry when he lost. Leon Trotsky reportedly played in Vienna and Paris. Stalin cared so much about his reputation as a chess master that he publicized a fake game in which he claimed to defeat party loyalist and future chief of the secret police Nikolai Yezhov. (Stalin later had him executed.)

Experts can tell that Stalin did not actually play the match because, as the narrator in this YouTube version says, the opening moves are too professional. However, Stalin’s little chess lie did not have to be particularly convincing. As Orwell suggested in 1984, when political dominance reaches a certain level then the lies don’t have to be convincing at all. Hence the ludicrous official adulation of North Korea’s Kim dynasty.

In which case, how dominant does a political position have to be before improbable lies are good enough for general release? To my mind political correctness has reached that point already.

Source: http://akhaart.blogspot.com/2018/03/one-of-stalins-lesser-lies.html

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