... to enhance his plot making it believable. Using a historical fact, Clancy shows how cruel the Communist system is with no respect for the humans but only for political power. The landing of a German teenager, Mathias Rust, inside the Red Square and his prosecution is brilliantly used to illustrate the KGB's way of thinking (pp. 226-7, TCTK). In June 1987 a German teenager ... be fired by the Soviet Politburo (p. 24, "Destination Red Square"). The historical fact gave Tom Clancy the ground to make the Communist bureaucrats' characters more sensitive to treason for the fear of losing thei...

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