Editing Alexander Alekhine (section)

===Anti-Bolshevik statements, controversy===
After the world championship match, Alekhine returned to Paris and spoke against [[Bolshevism]]. Afterwards, [[Nikolai Krylenko]], president of the Soviet Chess Federation, published an official memorandum stating that Alekhine should be regarded as an enemy of the Soviets. The Soviet Chess Federation broke all contact with Alekhine until the end of the 1930s. His elder brother Alexei, with whom Alexander Alekhine had a very close relationship, publicly repudiated him and his anti-Soviet utterances shortly afterward, but Alexei may have had little choice about this decision.<ref name="chessarchAlexey" /><ref name="KotovAlekhine">Kotov 1975, p.140</ref>