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Mathias Rust, the 18yo West German Who Flew to Red Square
- jollyllama 4y agoWhile doing his obligatory community service (Zivildienst) in a West German hospital in 1989, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him. The victim barely survived. He was convicted of injuring her and sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but was released after 15 months. WTF
- schoen 4y agoGerman prison sentences can be extraordinarily short by U.S. standards; I think I remember hearing that six years was plausible for murder. Although maybe the "WTF" was about the crime rather than the sentence.
- jollyllama 4y agoBoth, really.