<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" id="mw-A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Air_Defence_Forces" id="mw-Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Air Defence Forces">Soviet Air Defence Forces</a> pilot <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko" id="mw-g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Viktor Belenko">Viktor Belenko</a> lands a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25" id="mw-w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25">Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25</a> jet fighter at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakodate" id="mw_A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hakodate">Hakodate</a> in Japan and requests <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee" id="mw_Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Refugee">political asylum</a> in the United States; his request is granted.