‘Winston Churchill described Soviet Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” – the same could be said of Aeroflot, the Soviet Union’s only airline, which to some degree served as a microcosm of the country itself.’
So writes Bruno Vandermueren in the introduction to his fascinating book Aeroflot – Fly Soviet (Fuel publishing), which unwraps the mystery surrounding Aeroflot by presenting a stunning ‘visual history’ of it.
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