[Tucker39]

If you can get hold of a paperback copy at Amazon or someplace, read “MIG PILOT” Sub-titled “The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko” you will not only get a startling picture of the drinking situation over there, but also a mind-boggling realization how the failed misery of socialism is being installed HERE? The chapter on Stalin’s death and the shrieking gullible deification of him is eerily similar to all the idolizing of Zero! That is a non-fiction book, by the way......and dirt cheap, used, on Amazon.

[PUGACHEV]

I remember the book by Victor Belenko. IIRC, he wrote that it was almost impossible to keep the MIG 25 supplied with alcohol need for some function or other, because it would be drunk instead. But if you want a better picture of how bad it is now catch a recent documentary with a cameo by Vladimir Putin, Wild Wild Beach (2006) by the Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky. It's unbelievable!