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With a quick, behind-the-curtains scuffle of secret operatives and an embarrassed official gulp, the U.S. Government last week rushed a prize exhibit offstage. The exhibit was ist Lieut. Anatoly Barsov, formerly of the Soviet Air Force...
...Pilot Barsov was the Russian who crash-landed his Soviet bomber at a U.S. airfield in Austria last October, and in Russian and broken English announced that he and his navigator, 2nd Lieut. Piotr Pirogov, wanted to see the U.S. They particularly wanted to see the state of Virginia, about which they had heard on the Voice of America. Brought to the U.S., they were marched through Virginia in high style, given the full hero-of-the-cold-war treatment (TIME, Feb. 14). Then the Voice of America gave them $100 apiece, and they were turned loose in the land...
Dreams & Delirium. Young (28), handsome Piotr Pirogov quickly found a literary agent, arranged to give lectures, write articles and turn out a book. But Barsov was at a loss. Older than his navigator and outranking him, he seemed to resent his pal's success. An inarticulate, heavy-boned man with thick-knuckled peasant hands, Barsov found himself all but ignored. In his diary he noted: "As always, all-knowing and haughty to the point of stupidity, [Pirogov] insulted me repeatedly . . . Today's quarrel with Pirogov made clear my dependency upon...
...Barsov missed his wife and child: "In five hours of sleep had a lot of delirium, saw my son (he was very glad to see me back) in my dreams, wept a lot ... I don't know what to do." He drank heavily, worried about "pulsations" in his heart...
Coals & Ditches. Pilot Barsov took a small, cramped room in Brooklyn, got a $1-an-hour job pressing coats in a clothing factory. Then he signed on as an unskilled laborer in Stratford, Conn. Boris Labensky, an engineer at the Sikorsky Aircraft plant, took him into his home. For eight weeks, Barsov lived with them while he dug ditches for drain pipes. It was a bitter comedown for an officer...