The Washington Post is running a story on Mathias Rust , the then 19 year old wing nut who landed a small plane on Red Square 20 years ago.
Rust claimed he made his flight for "... because of my love for peace".
He most likely did not know the repercususions of his flight but, at least the Post claimes, that it gave Gorbachev an excuse to fire Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov and the commander of Soviet air defense forces, Alexander Koldunov for the "national shame" of having a 19 year West Germany fly a cessna through the Soviet Air defenses.
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