Martin Antonenko
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The Confused Kremlin Aviator ...
On September 4, 1987, after a two-day trial, the 18-year-old German Mathias Rust from Wedel (near Hamburg) is sentenced to four years in a labor camp "for illegal entry, violation of international air traffic regulations and serious hooliganism" ...:
He does not have to serve the sentence, because as a result of a pardon from the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Andrej Andrejewitsch Gromyko ...
... Rust will be released early from custody on August 3, 1988 and immediately expelled to Germany.
Rust had previously become world famous when he landed in a chartered small plane on May 28, 1987 in the bus parking lot next to Red Square, right next to St. Basil's Cathedral.
After his flight, Rust said pretty confused stuff - that on the one hand he took his flight "for world peace " and "understanding between our peoples", on the other hand that he did the flight "for fun" ...:
That the German managed to get to Moscow unnoticed by the Soviet air defense ...
... costs the Soviet Defense Minister Sergej Leonidewitsch Sokolow ...
... and the commander of the Soviet air defense, Aleksandr Iwanowitsch Koldunow ...
... their jobs and dignities!
Whereby KP leader Mikhail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow gladly uses the unexpected opportunity to get rid of the two military men who are considered "hardliners" ...
Rust drew attention to himself again in 1989 when he stabbed a student nurse with a knife and seriously injured him while doing community service in a hospital in Rissen (near Hamburg).
On April 19, 1991, Rust was sentenced to a 30-month prison term for attempted manslaughter in a minor case; He did not have to serve this sentence in full either, but was released early in October 1993 after 15 months.
Rust then first moved to Moscow, where he worked as a waiter, and then to Berlin, where he made little success as a professional poker player. According to his own statements, he has been working as - allegedly - "financial analyst" in Switzerland since 2012 and, as he said on a German TV talk show, was planning to open a yoga school and write his memoirs.
The work of Rust - another book that the world doesn't need! - appeared on the 25th anniversary of his Moskauf flight and, as one reads, is not supposed to sell particularly well ...
The plane used by Rust on his Moskauf flight, a Cessna 172 P "Skyhawk" with the registration number D-ECJB, was bought by a Munich cosmetics company for double the estimate after Rust's flight while it was still in the USSR and on October 19 Taken back to Germany in 1987.
It was later sold to a Japanese club and exhibited in the open air in an amusement park in Utsunomiya, near Tokyo.
In October 2008 the "Cessna" was brought back to Berlin and restored.
Since May 28, 2009, it has been on display as a permanent exhibit in the "Deutsches Technikmuseum" at Berlin ...:
On September 4, 1987, after a two-day trial, the 18-year-old German Mathias Rust from Wedel (near Hamburg) is sentenced to four years in a labor camp "for illegal entry, violation of international air traffic regulations and serious hooliganism" ...:
He does not have to serve the sentence, because as a result of a pardon from the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Andrej Andrejewitsch Gromyko ...
... Rust will be released early from custody on August 3, 1988 and immediately expelled to Germany.
Rust had previously become world famous when he landed in a chartered small plane on May 28, 1987 in the bus parking lot next to Red Square, right next to St. Basil's Cathedral.
After his flight, Rust said pretty confused stuff - that on the one hand he took his flight "for world peace " and "understanding between our peoples", on the other hand that he did the flight "for fun" ...:
That the German managed to get to Moscow unnoticed by the Soviet air defense ...
... costs the Soviet Defense Minister Sergej Leonidewitsch Sokolow ...
... and the commander of the Soviet air defense, Aleksandr Iwanowitsch Koldunow ...
... their jobs and dignities!
Whereby KP leader Mikhail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow gladly uses the unexpected opportunity to get rid of the two military men who are considered "hardliners" ...
Rust drew attention to himself again in 1989 when he stabbed a student nurse with a knife and seriously injured him while doing community service in a hospital in Rissen (near Hamburg).
On April 19, 1991, Rust was sentenced to a 30-month prison term for attempted manslaughter in a minor case; He did not have to serve this sentence in full either, but was released early in October 1993 after 15 months.
Rust then first moved to Moscow, where he worked as a waiter, and then to Berlin, where he made little success as a professional poker player. According to his own statements, he has been working as - allegedly - "financial analyst" in Switzerland since 2012 and, as he said on a German TV talk show, was planning to open a yoga school and write his memoirs.
The work of Rust - another book that the world doesn't need! - appeared on the 25th anniversary of his Moskauf flight and, as one reads, is not supposed to sell particularly well ...
The plane used by Rust on his Moskauf flight, a Cessna 172 P "Skyhawk" with the registration number D-ECJB, was bought by a Munich cosmetics company for double the estimate after Rust's flight while it was still in the USSR and on October 19 Taken back to Germany in 1987.
It was later sold to a Japanese club and exhibited in the open air in an amusement park in Utsunomiya, near Tokyo.
In October 2008 the "Cessna" was brought back to Berlin and restored.
Since May 28, 2009, it has been on display as a permanent exhibit in the "Deutsches Technikmuseum" at Berlin ...:
