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Russia - Soviet Union

Oct. 10, 1969 - RUSSIAN DEFECT RETURNS HOME TO RUSSIA: After two years in Britain a Russian defector today returned voluntarily to the Soviet Union. Ivan Mikheyev, 55, walks up the stops of an Aeroflot plane at London's Heathrow airport, flanked by security men. Mikheyev, a film cameraman came to London in December 1967. Throughout his stay in Britain he was undergoing medical treatment. He finally decided that he was unable to settle in England. Photo shows Ivan Mikeyev in centre of picture flanked front and seen by security men as he boards the plane for Moscow were he will be meet by his wife and two children

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13269810
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47042199
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6144px x 4393px (1.9MB)
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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Keystone Pictures USA

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Aeroflot Boards Cameraman Decided Defect Defector Finally Flanked Heathrow Returned Settle Stay Stops Throughout Unable Undergoing Voluntarily Walks


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