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He thinks that freedom is the right to behave like an aggressive, ungrateful beast.
It's Vodka o'clock Freeborn, it's become rather predictable and unhumourous really.
Trip over, orders received, mission initiated and propaganda pushed.
originally posted by: RussianTroll
a reply to: putnam6
Russians know much more about Western peoples than Western peoples about Russians. This is reality.
As for Powers, he flew a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft at very high altitudes. Then the Russian fighters could not get these planes, and they felt unpunished. On May 1, 1960, there were May Day demonstrations in the USSR, including in Moscow. Powers violated the airspace, flew to the Urals and flew towards Moscow. Then the air defense missile forces shot him down. The pilot ejected and surrendered.
He was sentenced by the court to 10 years in prison, but after 1.5 years he was exchanged for the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Rudolf Abel.
After that, the flights of American aircraft over the territory of the USSR ceased.