[Timber Rattler]

In his “Mig pilot” book (1983) John Barron claims that Viktor Belenko’s defection was completely voluntary and was the result of Belenko’s distrust on communist regime.

Belenko's wife was a real shrew too, and that made his decision to make a run for it in the his Foxbat that much easier.

[JoeFromSidney]

Belenko's wife was a real shrew too, and that made his decision to make a run for it in the his Foxbat that much easier.

I've read several tales by defectors. They always claimed their wives were shrews, or were staunch Communists. I always wondered just how much of that was a story intended to protect the left-behind wife.