Mig PilotJohn Barron
Mig Pilot
The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko
by John Barron · first published 1983
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…message "you're not free in your country...get out" is far from enough for the average person. They are completely inundated from birth with worship of the Great Leader. There's an awesome book called "Mig Pilot" by John Barron that details the story of a Soviet defector in the 80s. He talks about how he believed everything from the US was actually propaganda. He didn't even believe the grocery stores were…
on “U.S. blames North Korea for 'WannaCry' cyber attack” ↗…biography is a good insight into the MiG-25 and Soviet life, or @ least that's my recollection from reading it as a teenager. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25 http://www.amazon.com/Mig-Pilot-Final-Escape-Belenko/dp/0380...
on “Landing an F-15 with only one wing” ↗…Russian might pilot stole a jet and came to America. For a time be thought grocery stores were fake American propaganda. He traveled the country to find out why we had so much. https://www.amazon.com/Mig-Pilot-Final-Escape-Belenko/dp/038... Our capitalist system produced so much food that socialist countries thought it all fake propaganda.
on “The Paradox of Abundance” ↗I'm not sure if this is no-topic, but in case someone is interested, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG_Pilot:_The_Final_Escape_of... > MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko is a 1980 biography by John Barron about the life and 1976 defection of Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 fighter pilot Viktor…
on “Mig Pilot” ↗…handlers and disbelieving the grocery store he was taken to, until being shown several more like it. He thought at first that the grocery store was staged, or an unusual example and not the norm. [0] Mig Pilot by John Barron
on “A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union” ↗…engines.[28] A MiG-25 was tracked flying over the Sinai Peninsula at Mach 3.2 in the early 1970s, but the flight led to the engines being damaged beyond repair.[34]" Both citations are for Barron, John. MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980. ISBN 0-380-53868-7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#cite_n...
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