Michael Pugliese:

>>Chris Doss:

>> Uh, is this supposed to exhaust all the artistic production that existed 
>> in the USSR?


>Nah. Shostakovich was great, for example. 

The fSU/Russia also produced a long line of great chess players: Botwinnik, Tal, Petrosian,Spassky, Korpov, korchnoi, kasparov, Kramnik etc etc.

Ulhas