Yugoslavia
- On 13 September 1953, an air force pilot Lieutenant Nicol Jake Jaksek flew his P-47D Thunderbolt to Italy and asked for political asylum after landing at Aviano air base.
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“International relations is security, it’s trade relations, it’s power games. It’s not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia was pure evil. Not ethnic hatred—that’s only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...”
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