David Ionovich was asked countless times if he had to bow on orders to the homo sovieticus Mikhail Botvinnik. Deep down for the Kremlin at the time, Bronstein was Jewish and Ukrainian, and that was a flaw in the eyes of Stalin, Beria and others.

Yet he swore that no one had forced him to lose. Unconsciously, he will later admit that he was not made...This article is for subscribers only. You still have 87% to discover.