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Puddington, Arch (2003), Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, University Press of Kentucky, ISBN 0-8131-9045-2; Roberts, Geoffrey (2006), Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-11204-1
The incident took place during the Ogaden War. Throughout the 1980s and early 90s (up to 1991), several Ethiopian pilots defected with their planes to Sudan and Yemen. On 26 May 1991, the pilots of seven Mi-8s, an L-39, two An-12s, three MiG-23s, three Mi-24s and three Mi-35s defected from Ethiopia to Djibouti after the fall of the Mengistu ...
This is an incomplete list of Western Bloc intelligence agents, military personnel, scientists, politicians, diplomats, and other prominent people who defected to the Eastern Bloc or non-aligned countries during the Cold War and after.
Name Defection date Country of defection Comment Georgiy Sergeyevich Agabekov [1]: 1930 France: Disappeared around August 1937. Body never recovered Ignace Reiss
List of Soviet and Eastern Bloc defectors (1924-1991) List of Cold War pilot defections; List of KGB defectors This page was last edited on 10 ...
Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-754687-1. Tromly, Benjamin. "Ambivalent heroes: Russian defectors and American power in the early Cold War" [dead link ]. Intelligence and National Security 33.5 (2018): 642-658.
Soviet defectors (3 C, 50 P) Soviet spies (5 C, 104 P) Pages in category "People of the Cold War" The following 141 pages are in this category, out of 141 total.
In the 1950s, Soviet dissidents started leaking criticism to the West by sending documents and statements to foreign diplomatic missions in Moscow. [13] In the 1960s, Soviet dissidents frequently declared that the rights the government of the Soviet Union denied them were universal rights, possessed by everyone regardless of race, religion and nationality. [14]