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On September 6, 1976, an emergency occurred in the Far East,00:00:05
senior lieutenant Viktor Belenko took off00:00:07
on the new MiG-25 to perform a flight00:00:10
exercise, but soon disappeared from the radar; for00:00:12
some time it seemed that the pilot00:00:15
lost control and fell into the sea, but an00:00:17
hour later an international scandal broke out00:00:20
Bilenko00:00:22
landed safely in Japan and asked for00:00:24
political asylum in the USA in this00:00:27
issue of how it was we will talk about one00:00:29
of the most high-profile escapes from the USSR you00:00:32
will find out what prompted the exemplary00:00:34
family man and exemplary officer Viktor Bilenko00:00:36
to leave his country forever how he00:00:39
managed to bypass Soviet Japanese radars00:00:41
why after returning to the USSR, they00:00:44
demanded compensation from Japan in the amount of00:00:46
11 million dollars and how00:00:50
the life of a fugitive in the USA turned out in 1976, the Soviet00:00:57
Union, the golden years of Brezhnev's stagnation,00:00:59
the most delicious ice cream and sausage, 22000:01:03
residents of the USSR are convinced,00:01:05
or at least they are actively convinced,00:01:07
that they were lucky to be born in the most00:01:09
beautiful country in the world, of course, despite the00:01:12
propaganda, escape from the USSR00:01:14
sometimes happened, but usually those who fled were those who00:01:16
could officially be abroad,00:01:18
artists, diplomats, sailors and other00:01:21
morally unstable elements, but00:01:23
military personnel were considered politically00:01:25
trustworthy, Viktor Belenko was00:01:27
the standard of a Soviet officer, a native of the00:01:30
working class, silver a medalist at00:01:32
school, a member of the Communist Party, before00:01:35
joining aviation, he managed to work at a00:01:37
factory, combining this with his studies, which00:01:39
added points to his performance00:01:41
characteristics; he did a little at the00:01:43
Omsk Medical Institute00:01:44
and finally entered an aviation school,00:01:46
after which he was sent to00:01:49
work as an instructor pilot 400:01:52
years later in 1975 In the year Belenko was transferred to the00:01:55
Far East to the 530th Fighter Regiment of the00:01:58
Air Defense Forces and00:02:00
entrusted with flying a secret00:02:02
fighter, the00:02:03
MiG-25 aircraft on which00:02:06
Belenko was to fly at his new duty station00:02:08
was a 20-ton machine00:02:10
capable of flying at a speed of about three00:02:12
thousand kilometers per hour and reaching 2000:02:15
kilometers flight altitude00:02:17
for comparison, the American f-15 eagle was00:02:20
put into operation in the year of the escape, the00:02:22
maximum speed was 265500:02:26
kilometers per hour, which gave a mega00:02:28
noticeable advantage, however, the Americans did not00:02:31
know this yet, they did00:02:33
not really know anything about the Mig-25,00:02:36
although they began to produce it in the USSR back in00:02:39
1969, their knowledge generated fear, the00:02:42
American military simply00:02:44
had no idea what a Soviet00:02:47
fighter was capable of. On September 6, 1976, a00:02:51
Mig-25 with tail number 31 took off from the Sokolovka airfield,00:02:57
29-year-old Viktor Belenko was sitting at the helm, it was a regular00:03:01
training flight, Belenko was already completing it00:03:03
flew the plane east towards the00:03:05
Soviet Japanese border, he00:03:08
descended sharply, which allowed him to avoid00:03:09
radar detection to further00:03:12
mislead the Soviet side,00:03:14
he turned on the distress signal button00:03:17
and a minute later turned it off,00:03:19
along with radio communications and all electronics,00:03:22
this created the impression of a crash00:03:24
about half an hour after departure at00:03:26
about one hour 22 pm the Soviet pilot entered00:03:29
Japanese airspace00:03:31
on patrol and with American fountains,00:03:34
Bilenko hoped for their appearance and wanted00:03:36
them to force him to land, but for some reason00:03:39
this did not happen,00:03:41
meanwhile the Japanese side tried in vain to00:03:43
establish contact with the00:03:44
intruder and those raised into the sky00:03:46
the fighters were one step away from detecting the00:03:48
mega, but it suddenly disappeared from the radar and due to the00:03:51
changeable weather the situation became00:03:53
critical, fuel remained for a00:03:56
quarter of an hour of flight, and from the outlines of the00:03:58
shore that appeared, it became clear that the00:04:00
hito airport00:04:02
where Bilenko expected to land00:04:04
was located further than he had assumed00:04:05
other places for he simply did not00:04:08
know the landing in front of the fugitive pilot, the00:04:11
gear was not opened, of course it was possible to00:04:13
eject, but Belenko understood00:04:15
that then he would not be of00:04:17
much interest to Western countries, it would be a00:04:19
completely different matter if he handed over to them the00:04:21
secret car intact. Bilenko was lucky,00:04:25
escaping the impenetrable clouds and00:04:27
dropping to 250 meters, he suddenly saw00:04:29
the airfield,00:04:31
it was a civil airport in Hakodate, there00:04:33
was no time to think, the needle on the00:04:36
fuel consumption indicator had already reached 000:04:39
during landing, the moment he barely missed so much00:04:41
that the00:04:43
pilot’s skill saved the takeoff passenger Boeing, but because of this, the00:04:46
landing turned out to be dangerous with a00:04:48
dive at an acute angle at a00:04:50
speed of 360 kilometers per hour, a00:04:53
few moments later,00:04:54
knocking down a telegraph pole and proba stripping00:04:57
about 300 meters outside the landing00:04:59
strip, the00:05:00
Soviet moment with worn out tires00:05:02
finally landed in Japan, there was fuel left in00:05:04
it for literally 30 seconds of00:05:06
flight, the pilot left the cockpit and fired two00:05:09
warning shots into the air00:05:11
drove away a small crowd of curious people00:05:14
with cameras to the00:05:15
airport representatives who arrived in time, the Soviet00:05:17
officer immediately voiced a request for00:05:19
political asylum in the United States, by the evening an00:05:23
international scandal broke out the00:05:27
Soviet side00:05:29
accused the Japanese of kidnapping and00:05:31
forcibly detaining their pilot,00:05:33
she demanded that Belenko be immediately extradited00:05:35
along with the plane to00:05:38
show the seriousness of the USSR's intentions the00:05:40
Soviets fighters began to actively00:05:42
fly around the Japanese coast; for00:05:44
the first time, the Japanese themselves were not afraid to even come close to a00:05:48
stolen mega plane, fearing that the Soviets00:05:50
would lose their nerve and destroy the00:05:52
top-secret aircraft; however, the top00:05:55
leadership of the USSR understood that such a step00:05:57
would mean the start of a war; instead, it00:06:00
was decided to fully turn on00:06:02
propaganda and diplomatic pressure, the00:06:04
Japanese provided the unexpected guest with a00:06:07
comfortable life and assured him that there00:06:09
would be no extradition, however, they expressed their wishes and00:06:12
the meeting of the Soviet pilot with00:06:13
representatives of the USSR Embassy00:06:15
to demonstrate that he00:06:17
was here of his own free will, the00:06:22
KGB employee Bilenko, who began to softly lay, snapped that he flew to00:06:24
Japan voluntarily and for political00:06:26
asylum in the USA he00:06:28
also requested at his own request, then the KGB officer00:06:31
spoke differently, called the pilot a00:06:34
traitor and said sooner or later we00:06:37
will return you the very next day after00:06:39
the escape, US President Gerald Ford, by00:06:42
personal decision, granted00:06:44
political asylum to Victor Belenko on October 1,00:06:48
1976, USSR Foreign Minister00:06:51
Andrei Gromyko, at a meeting with Ford in the00:06:53
Oval Office, indignantly raised the00:06:55
issue of the repatriation of the Soviet pilot,00:06:57
calling him not only a traitor but also a00:07:00
criminal; however, the president’s answer was00:07:03
unequivocal; the person who asked for asylum00:07:05
received it and now this matter concerns00:07:08
only the US government; it’s funny that in the00:07:11
Soviet Union00:07:12
this story was presented at all in another way,00:07:13
Bilenko was perhaps the only one who00:07:16
escaped from the USSR about whom Soviet00:07:18
propaganda did not say a bad word, at00:07:20
least at first, when a00:07:23
ballet dancer or an athlete fled to the West,00:07:25
he was branded an irresponsible element00:07:28
who was seduced by the rotten West, but00:07:30
when a military pilot escaped, a member of the CPSU, an00:07:33
exemplary officer having never been00:07:36
abroad, this could raise the question among those who remained:00:07:38
is the Soviet system really so good00:07:41
if even the most00:07:43
trusted personnel flee from it, so Soviet00:07:45
newspapers and dos called Belenko a patriot00:07:48
and a real person; his landing was00:07:50
forced and the assumption that his00:07:53
flight was an escape was false00:07:55
at the end of September in Moscow they even00:07:57
organized a press conference at00:07:59
which his wife, who had threatened Belenko with divorce on the eve of his escape,00:08:01
and his mother, a defector who had not seen00:08:04
him since he was two years old,00:08:06
shed tears and called on him to return;00:08:08
we alternately praised our son and husband,00:08:11
but to no avail; what about the plane, the00:08:14
Americans wanted it to be delivered00:08:16
to USA for a detailed study, but Japan,00:08:19
feeling furious pressure from the USSR, the00:08:22
Soviet fleet by that time was rigidly00:08:24
blockading, sometimes even capturing00:08:26
Japanese fishing boats, asked for the00:08:28
opportunity to save face with the council,00:08:31
namely, leave the plane on00:08:32
Japanese territory, allow American00:08:35
specialists to access it and then hand it over to the Soviet00:08:37
side, and so it was a00:08:39
top-secret moment was done, they dismantled down to the00:08:41
last nut, a detailed study of00:08:43
the aircraft dispelled many of the00:08:45
Americans’ fears, they realized that the moment was not a super00:08:48
fighter, they were too maneuverable and00:08:50
also not capable of intercepting00:08:52
their supersonic reconnaissance lockheed00:08:54
sr-71 blackbird00:08:56
in November 1976, the still disassembled00:08:59
moment was handed over to representatives of the USSR in00:09:01
wooden boxes with the condition that00:09:04
claims for00:09:05
missing parts or damage be00:09:07
submitted within 24 hours,00:09:08
the calculation was that no one would00:09:10
have time to reassemble the whole plane during this time and there00:09:13
would be no compensation, but to the credit of the00:09:15
Soviet engineers00:09:16
they managed it, the USSR issued a bill of 7.700:09:19
million Soviet foreign currency rubles00:09:22
about 28 million modern dollars;00:09:25
however, as far as we know, the Soviets never received the money from00:09:28
the union; the00:09:30
hijacked moment did not fly anymore; he00:09:32
was sent to one of the flight schools00:09:34
as a teaching aid;00:09:38
the question remains why Bilenko00:09:41
escaped; it would seem that the 29-year-old officer00:09:45
had everything that in the Soviet Union it00:09:46
was considered happiness to have a successful career, a00:09:49
salary of 300 rubles, while00:09:51
the average scientist received 130, a00:09:54
young wife and a three-year-old son, in00:09:56
the future,00:09:57
early retirement and an increased00:09:59
pension, which did not suit Viktor Bilenko,00:10:03
why he not only escaped himself, but also00:10:05
provided potential enemies with a plane00:10:08
answer Belenko responded to this in00:10:10
numerous interviews00:10:11
as a child, he noticed how strikingly00:10:14
different real life is from the one00:10:16
sung by radio and newspapers,00:10:18
why if collective farmers report that the00:10:20
plan has been completed ahead of schedule, people stand in00:10:23
lines for bread, why00:10:25
there is no milk for five days in the USSR, they said if you want00:10:28
milk, turn it on radio, how did it happen that the00:10:31
father of nations, Stalin, whose death was00:10:33
recently mourned, a few years later00:10:36
turned out to be a tyrant and murderer at00:10:38
our school, and during the subsequent00:10:40
instructor work, these doubts00:10:42
only intensified.00:10:50
that is,00:10:53
in America, the pro-Soviet party operates00:10:55
legally, so who then has real00:10:58
democracy?00:10:59
The democracy of the Soviet regime he00:11:01
once felt for himself in 1975, and for a00:11:05
workers’ dispute with the head of the flight00:11:07
school, Major General Gola, days to you00:11:09
Belenko was thrown into a psychiatric hospital, a00:11:12
word from an angry person was enough General, all00:11:14
this was superimposed on purely everyday00:11:16
troubles in the summer of 1976.00:11:20
Belenko’s wife Lyudmila, who had previously00:11:22
threatened divorce, announced that in00:11:24
October she would go to her parents with her son00:11:26
and did not particularly want to see her husband.00:11:29
Victor had almost no close relatives; his00:11:31
mother left him at the age of two; his00:11:34
father created the new family gradually00:11:36
moved away they had not seen each other since the late 1960s00:11:40
due to the combination of these circumstances00:11:43
Bilenko and decided whether00:11:45
Belenko’s expectations from the Western world were00:11:48
completely justified, especially since in the USA he was00:11:50
given a more than warm welcome; the00:11:52
curators presented gradually00:11:54
introduced him to life in America at first00:11:57
not could believe that in any supermarket there00:11:58
are always fresh vegetables and fruits,00:12:01
many types of00:12:02
alcohol and no queues, having00:12:05
once bought canned meat and burning it for00:12:07
dinner,00:12:08
later he found out that he had eaten cat food and00:12:10
noted that animal food in the USA is00:12:13
tastier than canned food for ordinary people in the00:12:16
USSR00:12:17
Glinka got a job as a consultant00:12:20
for the US Air Force in 1980, received American00:12:23
citizenship for some time, taught at a00:12:26
military academy, then went into business,00:12:28
was married, became the father of two sons, his00:12:31
former homeland did not forgive him for such a00:12:33
slap in the face and sentenced him in absentia, and00:12:35
after the collapse of the USSR, Bilenko00:12:38
even came to Russia to be shot00:12:41
I didn’t make any attempts to see the family left here, and finally, what happened to00:12:44
him today00:12:45
on this matter, the data differs; some00:12:48
sources claim that Belenko00:12:50
died of a heart attack back in 2006, being00:12:53
unemployed and abandoned by everyone, according to00:12:56
others, he was divorced but still alive. Liked the00:13:01
video, like and hit bell00:13:03
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6 сентября 1976 года советский летчик Виктор Беленко вылетел с военного аэродрома на Дальнем Востоке, исчез с радаров, а через некоторое время приземлился в аэропорту Хакодатэ в Японии и попросил политического убежища в США. Беглецы из СССР были не такой уж редкостью, но побег Беленко стоит особняком. Ведь он не просто сбежал, но предоставил в распоряжение американцев новый советский истребитель, секретный самолет МиГ-25. В новом выпуске HOW IT WAS мы расскажем об одном из самых громких побегов из СССР. Вы узнаете, что подвигло образцового офицера Виктора Беленко навсегда покинуть Советский Союз, как ему удалось пересечь советско-японскую границу, обойдя радары, что ответил американский президент Джеральд Форд министру иностранных дел СССР Андрею Громыко на требование выдать летчика и как сложилась жизнь Беленко в США. Смотрите видео на других языках українською: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N86BC40sM-Y in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMzayECVFus Наши подкасты: https://linktr.ee/was_history Наши социальные сети: https://linktr.ee/was.media По вопросам рекламных интеграций пишите на почту: [email protected] Или в телеграм: https://t.me/m_i_t_y_a Дизайн обложек сделан с помощью: https://create.vista.com/uk/templates/youtube-thumbnails/ Использованы кадры из д/ф: «На XXV съезде КПСС» / ЦСДФ, 1976, «Communism and Co-Existence», 1963 / Reagan Library, «Авиация вооружённых сил СССР», киножурнал, 1978 / МО СССР Использовано видео: President Reagan's Meetings with Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union on September 28, 1984 / Reagan Library STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND SEMIANNUAL FILM REPORT / U.S. AEROSPACE AUDIO - VISUAL SERVISE / PublicResourceOrg Использованы фото: AP Photo / Boris Yurchenko, Allan warren / CC BY-SA 3.0, Eric Koch / Anefo, Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo, Lvova Anastasiya / CC BY-SA 3.0
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