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About five months after the Palma de Mallorca Interzonal (1970) qualifier was held, the first stage (the quarterfinals) of the Candidates matches was held in four cities in May 1971. In Vancouver, Canada there was a 10 game match between Mark Taimanov and Bobby Fischer, played May 16th - June 1st. Fischer sensationally won the match with a perfect score of 6-0, thereby proceeding to the Fischer - Larsen Candidates Semifinal (1971). After the event, Taimanov was reported to have said, "At least I still have my music." He wasn't being merely melodramatic: the consequences of this loss were to haunt him for years. In an interview with Joel Lautier, Taimanov later recounted:

"Until the match with Fischer in 1971, everything went smoothly in my chess career. This dramatic match changed my life into hell."

"As Fischer himself admitted at the time, the final score did not reflect the true balance of strength. The terrible feeling that I was playing against a machine which never made any mistake shattered my resistance. Fischer would never concede any weakening of his position, he was an incredibly tough defender. The third game proved to be the turning point of the match. After a pretty tactical sequence, I had managed to set my opponent serious problems. In a position that I considered to be winning, I could not find a way to break through his defenses. For every promising idea, I found an answer for Fischer, I engrossed myself in a very deep think which did not produce any positive result. Frustrated and exhausted, I avoided the critical line in the end and lost the thread of the game, which lead to my defeat eventually. Ten years later, I found at last how I should have won that fatal game, but unfortunately, it didn't matter anymore! I have written a book about this match, entitled How I Became Fischer's Victim, it represents an essay on the American player and describes how I perceived his style and personality, once the match was over."

"The sanctions from the Soviet government were severe. I was deprived of my civil rights, my salary was taken away from me, I was prohibited from travelling abroad and censored in the press. It was unthinkable for the authorities that a Soviet grandmaster could lose in such a way to an American, without a political explanation. I therefore became the object of slander and was accused, among other things, of secretly reading books of Solzhenitsin. I was banned from society for two years, it was also the time when I separated from my first wife, Lyubov Bruk."

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=79224


So, why am I sharing this with you? Because we can recognize a lot from this story. Notice that communists always repeat the same pattern; communism never changes.

First of all, if you do fit the regime 100%, you will suffer the consequences. The poliburo had to find excuses for his loss, and thus they invented some BS about him reading some antiregime shit (hence why he supposedly lost).

Does that remind you of anything?

Then, he was stripped of his civil liberty, because apparently that's a thing in communist countries: they can strip of your liberties whenever they want. They prevented him from traveling (again, reminding you of something?), they censored him (duh?) and they took his salary (OK, too easy now!).

Banned from society? Final hint.

Basically, if you do not follow communism 100%, you risk becoming a taimanov. Hell, even if you do follow it completely, you can end up in nefarious spots anyway, because that's what communism is.

In his book, I remember how the politikburo told him "we could have sent our janitor and gotten the same result" because a janitor obviously could have lasted 70+ moves against Fischer (/s).

If you do not fit their agenda, you are pushed aside. Used as an example for others.

So, what to keep of this? Keep in mind that communism never changes.

I hope you appreciated that little history lesson, and thank you for reading.

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I'll never, ever forgive nor forget the humiliation they imposed on me, and people around me.

And I'll never forget how people just rolled over and accepted it.

Fuck this fucking shithole

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My body my choice.

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That is all. Fuck this fucking shit. Am still as pissed as the first day.

Fuck this government, fuck Quebec, and fuck the sheeplings who obey this garbage ILLEGAL shit. You only have rights as long as they allow you to, huh?

I'll never, ever, EVER forget, nor forgive them.