We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must
condemn once and for all the formula 'chess for the sake of chess,' like
the formula 'art for art's sake.' We must organize shock-brigades of
chess-play ers, and begin the immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan
for chess.
-- Nikolai V. Krylenko, People's Commissar for Justice
(of RFSFR, later of USSR), speaking at a 1932 Congress
of Chess Players, as quoted in Boris Souvarine's
"Stalin," published London, 1939
