How far would you go for freedom? Would you betray your own countrymen? Risk life and limb? Bake a cake?
Although it's going to be hard to believe, a Soviet fighter pilot checked “all of the above” on his list of things to do before defecting to the United States- and the tale is so bizarre, it couldn't be made up.
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Born in 1961, Captain Alexander Mikhailovich Zuyev was a man with a lot of weight on his shoulders in the final years of the Soviet Union. Between a strained relationship with his wife (who was the daughter of the Air Division Chief-of-staff), a rejection letter from test pilot school and personal doubts about the Soviet Union's communist system, he felt trapped and yearned to seek freer skies.
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