May 28, 1987, turned out to be a bad day for two of the most senior members of the Soviet Union’s military. The reputedly impregnable air defenses that ringed Moscow had been breached, a disaster for ...
On May 28, 1987, an eighteen-year-old German pilot who barely knew how to fly helped topple the Soviet Union. When Mathias Rust landed his Cessna in Red Square in Moscow, he set in motion of chain of ...