Learning Russian For Chess

I heard Bobby Fischer learnt Russian as a kid so he'd be able to study the Russian magazines and books. However, there's plenty of great books and magazines out there nowadays in English. Would it be worth learning Russian for chess nowadays?

I guess so if you're really really serious (which I'm not) 

How serious is really really serious? Like, all-my-free-time-is-taken-up-by-studying-and-playing-chess serious?

Nah. of course, I don't really know, but when Fischer was playing the USSR had produced the overwhelming majority of elite players in the world. It was clearly light years ahead of the West in terms of chess theory and training. With the fall of the soviet union, the invention of the internet, their training materials and theory being translated and widespread, it seems to me learning russian isn't necessary to tap into the wealth of info on chess they had.

Okay that's roughly what I though too. Still, it would be pretty cool to read some of the old Soviet chess literature. Maybe some day...