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Rust in Red Square

Remembering Mathias Rust’s Flight to Red Square

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Twenty-five years ago, at the height of the Cold War, a Soviet court sentenced 19-year-old West German Mathias Rust to four years in prison. He flew a single engine plane into Moscow and taxied into Red Square.

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