Hijack for Freedom: The Memoirs of Mark Dymshits - Soviet Pilot, Jew, Breacher of the Iron Curtain
June 15, 2020, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the failed attempt of a group of fourteen Soviet Jews and two Russian freedom fighters to hijack a small plane from Leningrad Airport in order to escape the Soviet Union. At the head of this attempt was former Soviet air force pilot Major Mark Dymshits.
They were sixteen: three Jewish families, including two daughters and one pregnant young woman; four Jewish refuseniks;...
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