Editing Mathias Rust (section)

==Aftermath==
[[File:Cessna 172 D-ECJB of Mathias Rust.jpg|thumb|''D-ECJB'' at the [[German Museum of Technology]] in Berlin (2010).]]

Rust's trial began in Moscow on 2 September 1987. He was sentenced to four years in a general-regime labour camp for [[hooliganism]], for disregard of [[aviation law]]s, and for breaching the Soviet border.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barringer |first=Felicity |date=9 December 1987 |title=German in Red Square Flight Is Denied a Pardon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/09/world/german-in-red-square-flight-is-denied-a-pardon.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=17 March 2014}}</ref> He was never transferred to a labour camp, and instead served his time at the high security [[Lefortovo Prison|Lefortovo]] temporary detention facility in Moscow. Two months later, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to sign a [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty|treaty to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe]], and [[Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union|the Supreme Soviet]] ordered Rust to be released in August 1988 as a goodwill gesture to the [[Western Bloc|West]].<ref name="airspacemag" />

Rust's return to Germany on 3 August 1988 was accompanied by huge media attention, but he did not talk to the journalists assembled; his family had sold the exclusive rights to the story to the German magazine ''[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]'' for 100,000&nbsp;[[Deutsche Mark|DM]].<ref name=FAZ /> He reported that he had been treated well in the Soviet prison. Journalists described him as "psychologically unstable and unworldly in a dangerous manner".<ref name=FAZ />

[[William Eldridge Odom|William E. Odom]], former director of the U.S. [[National Security Agency]] and author of ''The Collapse of the Soviet Military'', says that Rust's flight irreparably damaged the reputation of the Soviet military. This enabled Gorbachev to remove many of the strongest opponents to his reforms. Minister of Defence [[Sergey Sokolov (commander)|Sergei Sokolov]] and the commander of the Soviet Air Defence Forces [[Alexander Koldunov]] were dismissed along with hundreds of other officers. This was the biggest turnover in the Soviet military since [[Great Purge|Stalin's purges]] 50 years earlier.<ref name="airspacemag" /><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1080/14682740701197631| title = Perestroika and the End of the Cold War| journal = Cold War History| volume = 7| pages = 1–17| year = 2007| last1 = Brown | first1 = A. | s2cid = 154856417}}</ref>

Rust's rented Reims Cessna F172P (serial #F17202087),<ref>[[Deutsches Technikmuseum]] (14 May 2009), [http://www.sdtb.de/fileadmin/user_upload/_tem/02_Ausstellungen/01_Dauerausstellungen/06_Luft-_und_Raumfahrt/03_Cessna/MI_Daten_und_Fakten_Cessna_F_172_P_final.pdf Cessna F 172 P „Skyhawk II"], retrieved 18 October 2012</ref> [[aircraft registration|registered]] ''D-ECJB'', was sold to Japan where it was exhibited for several years. In 2008 it was returned to Germany and was placed in the [[German Museum of Technology]] in [[Berlin]].<ref>[http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6738463&nseq=1 Reims Cessna F172P, D-ECJB, in the Deutsches Technikmuseum, 2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722065932/http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6738463&nseq=1 |date=22 July 2011 }}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sdtb.de/Cessna-172.1482.0.html |title=Himmelfahrt zum Roten Platz – Deutsches Technikmuseum zeigt Cessna 172, mit der Mathias Rust 1987 in Moskau landete |access-date=10 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103001106/http://www.sdtb.de/Cessna-172.1482.0.html |archive-date=3 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Because Rust's flight seemed harmful to the authority of the Soviet regime, it was the source of numerous jokes and [[urban legends|legends]]. For a while after the incident, Red Square was referred to jokingly by some Muscovites as [[Sheremetyevo]]-3 (Sheremetyevo-1 and -2 being the two terminals at Moscow's international airport).<ref>{{cite news |last=Bushansky |first=Valentin |date=28 May 2008 |title=10 фактов о Матиасе Русте ко Дню пограничника |language=ru |trans-title=10 Facts about Mathias Rust on Border Guard's Day |publisher=Fraza |url=http://fraza.ua/news/28.05.08/51446.html |url-status=dead |access-date=17 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405044811/http://fraza.ua/news/28.05.08/51446.html |archive-date=5 April 2016}}</ref>  At the end of 1987, the [[Ten-code|police radio code]] used by law enforcement officers in Moscow was allegedly updated to include a code for an aircraft landing.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ru:Милицейские байки. 15-й десяток |url=http://www.internet-law.ru/info/humour/mb15.htm |language=ru}}</ref>

At [[Saka, Estonia|Saka]] Manor Park in Estonia, there is a monument dedicated to Rust's flight.<ref>[https://www.err.ee/1608611980/punasel-valjakul-maandunud-mees-sai-saka-moisa-malestusmargi "Punasel väljakul maandunud mees sai Saka mõisa mälestusmärgi"] ERR, 27 May 2022 (In Estonian)</ref>