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Originally Posted by Archaea
Matthias Kessler rides for T-Mobile; Mathias Rust flew into Red Square around 1987. Being a German studies major, I had no idea I was linking a famous German who also spent time in Russian jail. 
Link because the Rust story was fascinating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust |
Rust, not Kessler. A little slip of the cycling toungue. That's not Freudian, is it?
I assumed you knew about and were referring to Rust, but I wasn't sure some of the younger set here knew who you meant. It was a remarkable story. At the height of the cold war this kid flies right into stinking Red Square. Aamzing