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Married. Piotr Pirogov, 32, Russian airman who made headlines three years ago when he fled to Austria with his fellow pilot Anatoly Barsov,* is now working for the U.S. Air Force; and Valentino Burnos, 25, Russian D.P., who was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, came to the U.S. from Austria; he for the first time, she for the second; in Washington...
...because he was the least bit dissatisfied with the Russian system but because he was curious, because he had quarreled with his wife, because "I was not lucky in the army." Criticism of the Soviet regime attributed to him really came from "this travesty of a human being," Pirogov. Wrote Barsov: "Traitors to their country . . . should be subjected to a strict isolation and even destruction ... I am in the category of those people, and I have to be destroyed if I shall not be corrected by the corrective labor camps...
...Said Pirogov: "Within six months, he will die like...
Said a waitress: "The tall Russian [Pirogov] was tusseling with two or maybe three men. They had him against a fence. The poker-faced fellow was putting up a terrific fight. You should have seen him rolling on the sidewalk with one of the men. They handcuffed him and the tall...
Repentant Sinner. Pirogov was promptly released. But Barsov was whisked out of sight. The Soviet embassy searched his empty $2-a-day hotel room, then sent a note to the State Department. State...