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Old 4th March 2011, 17:58
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Re: Flight from captivity

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Originally Posted by DavidIsby View Post
Devyatayev got lots of press in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s because he did hard time in the Gulag as a reward for his heroism.

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In this particular case, even a fiction writer could not make up his escape story, it was so bizare, you can hardly blame NKVD not believing him
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