Posted on 03/31/2018 8:08:33 AM PDT by NorseViking
A 727ski.
Parse the sentence from the article - the only FACT is that there were white Americans on the flight who ALLEGEDLY got offered a flight home to the US.
Could’ve bought their own tickets.
In 1972, I took a tour of the Soviet Union with a group of German students. The only other Americans were a US couple who spoke German but with a heavy accent.
We flew to Moscow from the Schönefeld Airport outside of East Berlin. Since this was in East Germany outside of Berlin, I had to get a visa to enter the country, with which the US didn’t have diplomatic relations, and went through some bureaucratic hassles before I could proceed. On returning, I sailed through, and it was the Germans who had to endure the hassles.
Schönefeld was almost deserted, and the only airliners I saw were from Soviet Bloc carriers such as Lot, the Polish airline. We flew to Moscow aboard an Ilyushin 18 Coot courtesy of Interflug, the East German airline. This was an afternoon flight, and dinner consisted of cold roast beef, bread and potatoes served on a metal tray, like you would find in high school cafeterias.
After two weeks, I got back to West Berlin via that Aeroflot Coot that I described earlier. The flight home to Saarbrücken, West Germany aboard a Pan American jet seemed fabulously luxurious by comparison—especially when a black stewardess, whom I assumed was American even though she spoke perfect German, handed me a drink—a real German beer, not that horrible Moskovskaya beer that was available in the Soviet Union.
“” “” Schönefeld was almost deserted, and the only airliners I saw were from Soviet Bloc carriers such as Lot, the Polish airline. We flew to Moscow aboard an Ilyushin 18 Coot courtesy of Interflug, the East German airline. This was an afternoon flight, and dinner consisted of cold roast beef, bread and potatoes served on a metal tray, like you would find in high school cafeterias.”” “”
I see. Aeroflot didn’t operate Il-18 by late 1960s.
The liberals want a war with Russia to distract us from their crimes. Sadly the dopes who vote Democrat , and liberals on places like facebook are too stupid, or just plain ignorant to understand the truth.
Well, technically they were handed down to the military and to the third world by 1969. You probably got a chance to fly on leftovers:)
If I had flown to someplace in the West rather than to another East Bloc airport, both the plane and the conditions aboard would likely have been far better.
To bring things to perspective Aeroflot was a 10000 plane airline in between 1960 and 1990. One of the West’s largest PanAm had like 200 planes at its peak if I am not mistaking. There was relative difference in passenger turnover. You could expect Aeroflot to have diverse fleet or contract military to perform flights sometimes.
I recall seeing a billboard in East Germany advertising their airline Interflug. The billboard featured a route map showing where you could fly on that airline. If I remember correctly, the only place on the route map that was outside the Bloc was Conakry, Guinea. I doubt if very many Americans seeing that billboard took them up on that.
Check their post Soviet record. As already done on this thread. They have one of the most modern fleets among large carriers.
Aeroflot banishing ‘old, fat’ flight attendants?
http://travelskills.com/2017/02/24/is-aeroflot-banishing-old-fat-flight-attendants/
We will see what really happened. When the Muslim grievance board investigates. Right? In the meantime it is still a good well run airline as much so as say United.
India does not allow dual citizenship. If an Indian naturalizes as an American, they must renounce their Indian citizenship, and they can then obtain a Person of Indian Origin (PIO) card which acts like a permanent visa to India.
Many naturalized immigrants who do a lot of traveling retain their original citizenships in order to make their lives easier, especially if they still have relatives in their country of origin. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. In addition, any US citizen is fully entitled to full consular assistance in any third country, regardless of any additional citizenships of the person...e.g. the US Embassy won't/can't help a Dual US-Russian citizen in Russia, but can and must anywhere else in the world.
From the CIS Website, Citizenship Oath of Allegiance:
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“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”
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First sentence pretty much says the US doesn’t allow dual citizenship!
The simple fact remains that United States law does not forbid retaining the citizenship of another country after naturalization. This is a very well known fact which is commonly understood by all US consular officials, everywhere.
Additionally, many people have dual citizenship by birth. All of my children hold citizenship both of the United States of American and the Russian Federation.
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