Cook
Banned
There is a massive difference between being some disgruntled Mig driver based in far eastern Siberia and being a Cosmonaut; outside of the Politburo those guys had the best lives in the Soviet Union. And they were flying in space! Something that there is no way they’d ever get the chance to do again if they defected.And of course there's the case of Victor Belenko landing his Mig-25 in Japan in 1976. Might give ideas to a Soyuz crew...