‘Putin is an insane dictator’: Gary Kasparov, Russian chess legend

Kasparov is considered one of the best ever in ‘sport science’.

The chess icon said that “one man’s dictatorship in Russia is a threat to humanity.”

Former world chess champion Gary Kasparov called Russian President Vladimir Putin an “insane dictator” and said he longed for the end of his regime, speaking to the German daily. ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine’.

“I hope this will lead to the collapse of his regime. Not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined such a wave of solidarity in one or two days, as it has been in this case,” Kasparov said.

Kasparov, opponent of Putin

Kasparov, world champion between 1985 and 2000, has always been one of Putin’s harshest critics inside Russia.

“I am constantly being asked what should happen… Should millions of people gather to protest in Red Square? Will there be a coup? Will the oligarchs react?” Kasparov said.

“It’s a mixture of everything. When dictatorships end, no one can predict who will end the game,” he added.

Kasparov maintains that, after 22 years in power, and with no one to question him in his inner circle, Putin has lost his sense of reality and lives in a bubble.

“We know that he trusts few people, that he does not consult anything on the Internet. Can someone like this have a notion of reality?”. he asked himself.

“The dictatorship of one man in Russia is the greatest threat to humanity”he pointed.

SPORTS
with EFE