On this day 8 years ago Russian army shot down Malaysian MH17 Boeing killing 313 people. Russian terrorists made happy photos with debris as a background, and their girlfriends looted the site for cosmetics and proudly wrote about it on social networks.
It was not the first Boeing of an Asian airline Moscow shot down and denied it. In 1983, Soviet warplane Su-15 shot down a Korean Boeing 747 KE007 on its flight from New York to Seoul via Anchorage. 269 people were killed. The Soviets denied this kill exactly as in the MH17 case
The Moscow's lies were identical to the lies about MH17: "we did not shot it down", "there was an CIA planted bomb on board", "no alive people were on board", "it was a spy plane" etc. Still, this WAS NOT the first Boeing Moscow shot down!
In April 1978, Soviets shot down another Korean Boeing 707 KAL 902 on its route Paris-Anchorage-Seoul, this time over Kola peninsula. A Soviet Su-15 shot an AA missile at KAL902, instantly killing 2 people. The crew managed to land the plane on a frozen lake. 13 ppl were injured.
This was a miracle - I believe, it was the only case in the world history, as a passenger jet, hit by an AA missile, was safely landed by its crew. The captain of KAL902 was Kim Chang-Kyu, a veteran of Korean war, a retired colonel of Korean Air Forces.
The Soviets arrested the crew and held them for the week, until they "pardoned" and released the crew. The Soviets also requested Korea to pay a bill of USD100,000 as "costs reimbursement" (Korea denied). Moscow has also stolen the wrack itself and used for reverse engineering.
Was it the first case, as Soviets shot and looted a civil western plane? Hell no. On June 14th 1940, months after a Soviet-Finnish "Winter war", Soviet Air Force shot down a Finnish civil plane Ju-52 Kaleva, route 1631 from Tallinn to Helsinki, over the Gulf of Finland, killing 9
Amid 6 passengers of Kaleva flight, there were one US and two French diplomats, transporting about 200kg of diplomatic correspondence. Kaleva was shot down by 2 Soviet DB-3T light bombers on their routine patrol. A Soviet submarine Shch-301 emerged at the crash site and looted it
About 100kg of diplomatic post and currency in cash were looted and urgently transported to Soviet naval base Kronstadt. The Soviets denied everything as usual. The bombers' crew said, they were "provoked" by passengers of Kaleva who were "threatening them by showing fists"(sic!)
In three days, the Soviets invaded and annexed Estonia. From this perspective, shooting down foreign civil planes and denying it amid preparing aggressions and annexations of neighbouring nations is a Moscow's proud tradition since at least 82 years.
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