The special status of Germany as a country divided during the Cold War era was an important step towards the publication of informations from Soviet Russia in the western civilization after the fall of the German Democratic Republic.
The Soviet books were available to East German citizens, who in turn learnt Russian at school. So after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the addition of the East German territories to the Federal Republic of Germany it was easily possible for former citizens of the German Democratic Republic to provide informations from those books - including the Russian chess composition books - in the west. The frugal cooperation of the Soviet and East German presses made it also available for books to be translated, for example many chess books from the Soviet Union appeared in the Sportverlag Berlin.
Those, of course, found their way to the west.
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