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@volkadav ("Mike Jackson (see also: @volkadav@hachyderm.io)") retweeted:

@Gerashchenko_en ("Anton Gerashchenko") wrote:

On 28th May 1987, 18-year-old Mathias Rust from Germany freely crossed the USSR border and landed his small plane by the Kremlin walls.

After that event the Red Square was informally called Sheremetyevo-3 (the airport) for a long time.

Two days later Gorbachev fired the… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654249649786454017