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Here's why Soviet pilots are buried at a US base in Alaska
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Before he boarded the plane, Russian President Vladimir Putin threw flowers at a summit in Alaska, where the dead bodies of Soviet pilots died during the Second War...
Shortly before his return, Putin visits graves of Russian soldiers in Alaska. The Kremlin chief recalls the Russian past of the U.S. state - and the joint struggle of the great powers in the Second World War.
Here's why Soviet pilots are buried at a US base in Alaska
During his Alaska summit with President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to lay flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots at Fort Richardson — a WWII burial site for airmen who died while training in Alaska to ferry U.S.-built planes to the Eastern Front. Here’s why those Soviet pilots are buried in Alaska.
Vladimir Putin, after concluding his meeting with Donald Trump, did not immediately board his plane. The Russian president made a symbolic gesture, paying tribute to the Soviet pilots who died in Alaska during World War II. He then visited Chukotka on his way back.
Vladimir Putin visited the burial site of Soviet pilots who died and were buried in Alaska. This is their story.
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