In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury - eviltoast
  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Hmmm lets examine this statement.

    Isolated weird place, scary Russians, Russian stereotypes of intellectual game + tremendous violence.

    Gee, it almost sounds like this is a too convenient racist lie. Any proof? The oldest reference just says ‘it totally happened’ and cites something I can’t access on Google books. It’s 20 years after the fact and not a primary source.