German pilots regularly whispered about flight's disappearing while attempting to fly over the Urals, and rumors continuously circled about Russian pilots still continuing the war over the mountains and destroying any bombing wings that made their way past. Even more preposterous rumors claimed that many of said pilots were in fact women, taking revenge for their dead husbands and sons. Such rumors quickly led to a mass execution of sixteen pilots of Luftflotte 4 and 27 members of the support staff. Afterwards, flights beyond the Urals were permanently stalled, with Luftwaffe and government officials claiming the Russians beyond the mountains had been subdued and no longer warranted the cost.
Rumors about the Sodenstern Incident, named after a village formerly named Volzhskiy by the Bolsheviks and renamed Sodensternstadt after the war, soon became strictly blacklisted as well. The incident, which led to a flight of German bomber's being shot down shortly after leaving their runways in the city and two airfields being bombed into destruction, was claimed by officials to have been the result of an unfortunate incident in the airfield's fuel yards which led to a chain explosion, claiming the lives of seventy men and destroying a flight preparing to leave the ground- killing another thirty.
While the story of the Sodenstern Incident was quickly shuffled away and aviators and citizenry strongly discouraged from speaking about it again, rumors still circulate of a mix of old Soviet aircraft, American fighter designs and even what looked like bastardized German aircraft rapidly flying through Moskowien that night towards Sodensternstadt. Spreading such rumors is considered, just like many others, a capital offense.