Anastas Mouradian

&nbsp Anastas Mouradian was a Soviet bomber pilot who served in the war between Germany and the USSR from 1938 onwards. An outspoken Armenian in the politically paranoid, Russian-dominated USSR, he was often warned by his friend Sergei Yaroslavsky to keep quiet, and often regretted saying things in the presence of possible political informers. Transferred to Far Eastern Aviation in 1940 to fly against the Japanese, he was soon removed back to Europe when the USSR and Japan concluded a peace pact.