#ussr

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt. ↗

— Boris Spassky

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#chess #coaches #debt #developing #free

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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#dissidents #killed #then #ussr #were

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

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#human-kindness #philosophical #ussr #life