Sosonko: Genna RemembersGenna Sosonko's Memoirs of the Golden Age of Chess "Half a century ago I left a country whose red color dominated a large portion of the world map. One way or another, the fate of almost every single person described in this book is forever linked with that now non existent empire. Many of them ended up beyond its borders too. Cultures and traditions, and certainly not least of all a Soviet mentality, couldnt have just left them without a trace.