The 13th World Champion of Chess, Azerbaijan Harry Kasparov in an interview with the Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon, spoke about the help that Heydar Aliyev helped him, remembered his life to Baku and answered a question if he missed the city of his childhood. ” / P>
“There were no national problems. My mother – the older of the three sisters – married the Jewish, the average – for Armenian, the youngest – for Azerbaijanis. There was no such problem in Baku,” says Kasparov. – In Tbilisi and Yerevan were not So. Yerevan was almost completely Armenian. Tbilisi was more multinational, but they said in Georgian. And in Baku, even many Azerbaijanis not only talked, but also thought in Russian. Still, Baku was an imperial city. This was different from Many capitals.
Do I miss Baku my childhood and youth? Nostalgia always exists. My dad is buried in Baku. There I was born and grew up. When the Chess Olympiad was held in Baku in Baku, I asked friends from the American team to make photos from the cemetery and the photo of my house, where I was born. At that moment in the apartment where I was born, there was a store of women’s clothing …
Rostropovich and Landau were also born in Baku. Rostropovich arrived in Baku at the invitation of Heydar Aliyev. There were sometimes at the time of Heydar Aliyevich, which and I would be quite good to come. But for me this question was not stood … “.
Kasparov admits that Heydar Aliyev played a big role in what he managed to become a world champion.
“Heydar Aliyev Aliyev I patronized. This is the right word. For the first time he took me and my mother in 1979, when I achieved my first big success in the Yugoslav city of Banya-bow. It is clear that I was already a big ascendor. . And Aliyev considered it very important that the boy of the Armenian-Jewish blood in Baku will be supported. All the assistance of Aliyev from 1979 to 1985 was a shield, protection. The Soviet system did not have any interest to change the Russian champion for metis from Baku. Especially since many Chiefs who even were tolerant in matters of nationality, felt that, unlike the loyal soldier of the Karpov party, it was impossible to trust me. And they were right. After all, the spirit of freedomiff slipped, it was clear that I was made from another test. in Vysotsky: “I read other books in childhood.”
Therefore, Heydar Aliyev’s help was important because I was provided with conditions for training. What is patronage? You can bring the road to the championship, eliminating the opposition, strangle opponents. As, let’s say, they told the revolution in 1974 on the match with Karpov. Or those problems that were created to me when I climbed up. And you can assist related to the creation of a material and technical base where you can prepare where people can come.