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On June 29, 1974, famed ballet dancer with the Kirov Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov, defected from the USSR while on tour in Canada.
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Author: Major Dan
Editor and Narrator: Dr. Zar
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On June 29, 1974, famed ballet dancer with the Kirov Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov, defected from the USSR while on tour in Canada.
The text narrated in this video is from the original article at historyandheadlines.com/history-short-they-escaped-the-soviet-union
Author: Major Dan
Editor and Narrator: Dr. Zar
The following media files are in the public domain for various reasons or have no known copyright restrictions:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arkady_Shevchenko_1980s.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baryshnikov.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Communist_Contagion.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Former_Soviet_Pilot_Viktor_Belenko%E2%80%99s_Military_Identity_Document.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Stalin_with_daughter_Svetlana,_1935.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russia_stamp_2005_%E2%84%96_1044-1048mlist.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svetlana_Alliluyeva_1970.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Worlds.jpg
The image by Gary Friedman, Los Angeles Times available at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mikhail_Baryshnikov_and_Alessandra_Ferri.jpg is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
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