Landing on Red Square: Hussar coup with aftermath | free press

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Thursday, May 28, 1987, Ascension Day: after three low-level orbits over Red Square in Moscow, a single-engine Cessna lands at 6:43 p.m. local time right next to it on the Moskva Bridge in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral. Onlookers surrounded the plane as a lanky young man in red overalls and sunglasses got out.

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