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Landing in Red Square
Twenty-five years ago, during the Cold War, a German teenager Mathias Rust, managed to evade Soviet air defences to land his single-engine plane in Moscow's Red Square.
Photo Associated Press: Rust's plane in Red Square in 1987.
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