US Denies Russian Diplomats Travel to Memorial Ceremony for Death of Soviet Pilots

The diplomats planned to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the death of Soviet pilots in Elizabeth City.

 “While in the United States, we acutely feel the desire of the local political establishment to consign to oblivion the pages of the Russian-American alliance during the Second World War,” the Russian Embassy in Washington stated.

In 1945, four Soviet pilots died in North Carolina - participants in the Zebra project, which was declassified only in 2012. They ferried Catalina-type seaplanes from the United States to the Soviet Union.

On Saturday in Elizabeth City, compatriots and caring people organized a ceremony dedicated to the memory of our pilots.

The US government is petty and emotional.