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Mathias Rust's plane just prior to illegally landing in Red Square, Moscow, in the Soviet Union, 1987
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Militaries can end up with very entrenched officer corps. It may not have been as brutal as the Great Purge, but it likely had similarly massive effects on the institutions of the Soviet military.