Traitor is a very humiliating term, but because people have different values and different emphases on personal interests and national interests, many people who attach too much importance to personal interests and ignore national interests will often lose themselves and become traitors in the face of major issues of right and wrong. In the early 1990s, there was a pilot on the mainland who had the idea of flattery because of personal interests, and eventually defected to the Soviet Union. This is also the last pilot in the history of the mainland to defect, and his defection experience is ironic.
The protagonist's name is Wang Baoyu, born in 1962 in Qingdao, Shandong. In 1980, at the age of 18, Wang Baoyu was admitted to the aviation school with excellent results and became a preparatory pilot. Wang Baoyu studied very hard, he did not like to talk, but he loved to study technology, and finally successfully graduated and became a formal pilot. To achieve such results, it is completely able to become the pride of the family.
Wang Baoyu
After entering the flying brigade, Wang Baoyu was reluctant to open up with his comrades-in-arms because of his introverted personality. It is precisely because of this that Wang Baoyu has become the key help object in the brigade. After receiving organizational care, it has stimulated his inferiority complex. In addition to his personality inside and outside, he is suspicious and has strong self-esteem, which is the unanimous evaluation of his comrades-in-arms. Most of the other pilots around him had a bold personality, and Wang Baoyu thought they were too shallow.
Because he didn't have a few friends, Wang Baoyu put all his energy into studying flying technology, so his progress was very fast, and this was the only place that could make him proud. However, with the accumulation of experience and seniority, many of his comrades-in-arms have embarked on leadership positions, and every time they are promoted, there is no name for him, which makes Wang Baoyu feel more and more unbalanced.
In 1988, Wang Baoyu got married. After getting married, Wang Baoyu handled the military service for his wife. However, due to the policy changes at that time, the issue of resettlement of family work became very difficult, which made Wang Baoyu complain many times, and it took a long time for his wife to be transferred to the division headquarters.
Wang Baoyu and his wife
But the problem came again, the wife was stationed at the division headquarters, she was in the flying regiment, and the two were separated. The wife is extroverted, loves to make friends, is young and beautiful, and is very uneasy about not being around. Therefore, Wang Baoyu found the old regimental commander, who was already the deputy commander, and asked him to transfer his wife to the work of the flying regiment. After listening to it, the deputy division commander was very angry and directly refused his request: "I can arrange a job for my family, and the organization has done its best, not only are you not grateful, but you also put forward this excessive demand that only considers personal interests!" ”
Since then, Wang Baoyu has been more taciturn and depressed. Soon after, Shi Li carried out another promotion, but there was still no name for Wang Baoyu. Wang Baoyu thought that his flying level was already superior, and it should be his turn, so he thought that this was the revenge of the deputy division commander against him.
Wang Baoyu's wife has a completely different personality from him, seeing that others have been promoted, while her husband has always been standing still, so he is very dissatisfied with Wang Baoyu, quarreling with him all day, scolding him for being wasted and impatient, and the relationship between husband and wife is very tense. In this regard, while conducting political and ideological education for Wang Baoyu, the organization also tried to help him ease the relationship between husband and wife.
The work is not smooth, the family is not harmonious, and gradually make such a man who is unwilling to communicate with people discouraged. During this time, he began to study Western philosophical works, eavesdropped on foreign broadcasts, and longed for Western ideas of freedom and democracy. At the beginning of 1990, Wang Baoyu's wife returned to Qingdao to give birth, and the organization considered that this was a good time to ease the relationship between his husband and wife, so he was specially approved for a two-month vacation.
In these two months, Wang Baoyu's relationship with his wife has eased, but his enthusiasm for pursuing Western ideas has also increased. At this time, he already had the idea of defecting to the West, but in order to hide his eyes, he began to actively perform. After returning to the team, the organization thought that he had made great progress, and the leaders were very pleased. However, Wang Baoyu had already begun to secretly prepare a defection plan. He prepared to flee first to the Soviet Union and then to the United States for political refuge.
J-6 fighter
On August 25, 1990, while flying a J-6 fighter while flying training, Wang Baoyu suddenly changed course and flew to the Soviet Union with skilled ultra-low-altitude flight technology, and finally landed at Vladivostok Airport in the Soviet Far East. Before that, Wang Baoyu had never been in contact with the Soviets, but he firmly believed that the Soviets would take him in.
In fact, as early as 1989, Gorbachev, who had just taken office, visited China, and the three-decade estrangement between the two countries was also declared to end, and the relations between the two countries entered normalization. Therefore, when the mainland discovered that Wang Baoyu had defected, it immediately launched diplomatic procedures, hoping that the Soviet Union would extradite the pilots.
Gorbachev visited China
At this time, the Soviet Union very much wanted to establish good relations with China, and in order to show sincerity, they immediately agreed to extradite Wang Baoyu. Su Fang told Wang Baoyu to blindfold him and take him to a secret safe place, which Wang Baoyu gladly accepted. However, what awaited him was actually the plane on which we arrested him.
Because the J-6 aircraft piloted by Wang Baoyu landed forcibly, it caused minor damage, and the gear plates on both sides could not be recovered normally. Although the Soviet side fully cooperated with the repair, it was still not repaired. In this regard, a deputy regimental commander zhan houshun who served as an idling mission resolutely decided to fly the faulty plane back to China, saying: "Even if you can't fly to a place and are forced to abandon it halfway, we must let this plane stay on our territory!" This is related to the dignity of the Chinese Air Force, and even more to the dignity of the country! "Eventually, the plane was safely parachuted back home.
After returning to China, Wang Baoyu was expelled from the party and the military, and sentenced to death by the military court for betraying the motherland, with a two-year suspension of execution. Later, Wang Baoyu was sentenced to indefinite.
Wang Baoyu's defection incident was obviously due to blind confidence in himself and excessive superstition in a foreign country. However, the state has a national law, and his immature plan cannot escape the punishment of the law. However, this incident also reflects from the side that the continental flight technology was already very advanced at that time.