Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost"and by any means necessary. In the 1970s, both the United States and the Soviet Union used sport, as well as culture, as a weapon against the other side. So the 1972 chess game between Boris Spassky and […] The full version of the article Tom Morton-Smith's "Ravens: Spassky Vs Fischer" at the Hampstead Theatre: Real-Life Cold War…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:57AM on December 8, 2019