ВТЕКТИ З СРСР В США: як Віктор Беленко викрав секретний радянський винищувач МІГ | WAS

On September 6, 1976, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko took off from a military airfield in the Far East, disappeared from radar, and after some time landed at Hakodate Airport in Japan and asked for political asylum in the United States. Escapees from the USSR were not so rare, but Belenko's escape stands out. After all, he did not just escape, but provided the Americans with a new Soviet fighter, the secret MiG-25 aircraft. In this issue of WAS, we will tell you about one of the most high-profile escapes from the USSR. You will learn what prompted the exemplary officer Viktor Belenko to leave the Soviet Union forever, how he managed to cross the Soviet-Japanese border, bypassing radar, what US President Gerald Ford replied to the USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko when he demanded to extradite the pilot, and how Belenko's life in the United States turned out. #was #миг #сср Our Patreon:   / was_ua   For advertising integrations, write to the mail: [email protected] Or in Telegram: https://t.me/m_i_t_y_a Used footage from films: "At the XXV Congress of the CPSU" / TsSDF, 1976, "Communism and Co-Existence", 1963 / Reagan Library, "Aviation of the Armed Forces of the USSR", newsreel, 1978 / Ministry of Defense of the USSR Used videos: President Reagan's Meetings with Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union on September 28, 1984 / Reagan Library STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND SEMIANNUAL FILM REPORT / U.S. AEROSPACE AUDIO - VISUAL SERVICE / PublicResourceOrg Photos used: AP Photo / Boris Yurchenko, Allan warren / CC BY-SA 3.0, Eric Koch / Anefo, Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo, Lvova Anastasiya / CC BY-SA 3.0 #WAS #USSR #MiG25