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On the evning of the 28 of may 1987 a small airplane is flying in over the red square in Moscow. Three times the plane flyes above the square trying to land, but it can´t so the pilot takes it down on a bridgre closeby and then drives the plane to the redsquare.
The pilot is 19 year old Mathias Rust from east germany, after about a hour Rust is arrested by the KGB. The news is already then spreading around the world, aa amature pilot managed to fly from Germany to Russia and land on the red Square, thats how bad the russian air defence is. It is a huge scandal in Sovjet. Rust later said that he did it to make his contrubution to world peace.
Rust where senteced to four years i prison but had only to serve one and returned to East Germany.
After that his life has been upside down many times, he had psycical problems, and for a while he claimed to be a milionear and pro pokerplayer. He has also been senteced to prison for stabbing a woman during this time.
But his actions on the redsquare did infact make the downfall of Sovjet advance.
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