“Victor Belenko defected to the West in his MiG-25 (1976). One of the things Belenko wanted to see was an American aircraft carrier in operation”
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Yes. I remember ther story well. And his tarp draped Mig 25 sitting on that Japanese airfield
During my first year in college, my Composition I instructor asked us to write a short story to be turned in
before the end of class. She asked us to write about who we considered to be heroes. I wrote about Viktor Belenko and how he made a decision to leave what was a very prestigious and promising career in The Soviet Union, a fighter pilot, and find out for himself if the stories about life in the west were true or not.
He was told famine was common in the west. He said that he was always suspicious that these stories were lies. I think it was heroic that he gave up that life to satisfy in his own mind if freedom really existed in the west.