Icelandic Compassion and Neo-Soviet Revisionism--Fischer as A Snowden or Wikileaks?

A Pravda opinion piece makes this and other delusional comparisons. 

"On camera, he was adjudged not just paranoid nor a man afflicted with schizophrenia. Oh no! He was worse than that. In their eyes, Bobby Fischer had gone rogue. Fischer was un-American as Benedict Arnold was earlier. They implied Fischer had defected. He had committed the unpardonable act: he had gone over to the other side. To many, Fischer was essentially a bona fide Soviet agent."

Fanciful at best.

"True enough, Fischer early in his adult life felt he was 'followed'. He often complained about his frequent 'tails'. In his travels Fischer always searched his apartment for the 'bugs' or electronic listening devices. When it came to revealing the source about his suspicions that others were spying on his 'activism' and looking into his personal 'beliefs', Fischer offered his candor freely. He did not suspect the Soviets. That meant only the opposite side of the equation was true: his own government did not trust him." 

He of course was followed, but only because his mother was considered suspect during the hightend period of anti-Soviet feeling in the US. Fischer himself hated the Soviets. Eventually, he hated mst everyone and everything as his illness progressed. 

"He stayed resolute in his search for the truth. Rather than cave to his critics and accept that he was 'sick', Fischer found absolution: he renounced his U.S. citizenship. After seeking political asylum, Iceland, the host country of his most famous achievement granted Fischer full citizenship. It was a fitting tribute."

Truth? Poor Bobby was taken in by Iceland in appreciation of who he had been and what he had accomplished. It was not a tribute to Fischer to give him citizenship, IMO. Rather, it was an act of compassion by a country known for its egalitarianism and rationality.


Read the complete opinion piece here:
http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/columnists/08-01-2017/136579-bobby_fischer-0/