Why did the Russians initially deny that they had shot down the civilian flight, KAL 007? Why have the Russians continued to hold the passengers to this day?
The answers to these questions lie in the accepted appraisal of the Cold War situation of 1983: • President Reagan had already publicly castigated the USSR as the “Evil Empire.” Ronald Reagan • On December 12, 1979, Joseph Luns, Secretary General of NATO, announced that the United States would deploy both Pershing II intermediate range ballistic missiles and ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe — only six minutes from Moscow! — to counter the Soviet advantage in ICBMs. • Yuri Andropov was trying to make the Soviet Union appear as a good, peace-loving nation to forestall NATO’s missile deployment. Yuri Andropov • If the Soviets had released the passengers right away, they would have been admitting to their culpability, which would have destroyed their “peace-loving” image. As it turned out, their efforts did not work. The US played the tape of the Su-15 pilot, Gennadie Osipovich, saying “the target is destroyed” at the United Nations. NATO then deployed the Pershing II missiles i
The answers to these questions lie in the accepted appraisal of the Cold War situation of 1983: • President Reagan had already publicly castigated the USSR as the “Evil Empire.” • On December 12, 1979, Joseph Luns, Secretary General of NATO, announced that the United States would deploy both Pershing II intermediate range ballistic missiles and ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe — only six minutes from Moscow! — to counter the Soviet advantage in ICBMs. • Yuri Andropov was trying to make the Soviet Union appear as a good, peace-loving nation to forestall NATO’s missile deployment. • If the Soviets had released the passengers right away, they would have been admitting to their culpability, which would have destroyed their “peace-loving” image. As it turned out, their efforts did not work. The US played the tape of the Su-15 pilot, Gennadie Osipovich, saying “the target is destroyed” at the United Nations. NATO then deployed the Pershing II missiles in November of 1983. They rem
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