
History’s greatest mysteries: why did Mao’s chosen successor flee China?
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What Happened to the Soviet Union Air Force?
It's difficult to say precisely, of course, because all these things were obviously some one mustered from the people's liberation army air force. The idea that there may have perhaps been contacts with tian, as i've said, there is some suspicion that maybe the soviet union wasn't actually intended destination of that particularflight in the first place at all. But it's not entirely clear quite what might have been done to toesabotage a plane of that sort an official version that was given was that there wasn't enough fuel.
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