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| Slovak became a speed-boat racer. |
Some pretty amazing stories came out of the Cold War, mostly about people who managed in one way or another to get out of an Iron Curtain country. This is one of those stories. Miroslav Slovak (1929-2014) was an airman in Soviet Czechoslovakia. He was eventually assigned to the state airline, and that was how he got out and defected to the West: He and two friends hijacked his passenger plane. My favorite quote was about how he realized, when flying that night, that he was over West Germany. It was when he saw neon lights below. "Everyone was trying to sell," he said. "It was a free country": http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-mira-slovak-20140622-story.html
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