Soviet Jazz Band Hijackers

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I am considering a 'Tales from Aeroflot' series of irregular videos, kinda like the Russian Navy ones just because they are wild and I need some black comedy after the misery of my recent study.
Let me know what you think?
The sources mostly come from Russian media sources and open archive information regarding the event but it is all a bit hush shush because Putin gonna Putin.

[@josephhelgersonjoseph6115]

Hopefully that jazz cover of the Soviet anthem doesn’t get claimed by some random company based out of India.

[@mfrsr]

you mean.....hijacked?

[@nekdonikde5317]

...now you're at number 1, hope you did nothing wrong, like starting your business by selling pirated songs...

[@derironrailfan1919]

@@nekdonikde5317oops! didnt think wed see? its right there on wikipedia

[@Matt_The_Hugenot]

Or Brazil

[@mk-ultraviolence1760]

Soviet Commander: We have mission for you- Soldier: (takes safety off AK) Soviet Commander: and it is a hostage rescue. Soldier: (flips it to full auto)

[@markevans2294]

The fire selector on an AK-47 has 3 positions safe (up), full-auto (centre) & semi-auto (down). Thus these spetsnaz would be moving it "back to full auto".

[@ComfortsSpecter]

@@markevans2294Vibe and a half

[@louiscodrington3957]

@@markevans2294 fair play with that answer

[@sandythethird2292]

​@@markevans2294 The word flip doesn't imply direction so kindly flip off.

[@artsseriouschannel]

@@mk-ultraviolence1760 Gotcha!

[@alexdemoya2119]

TIL: I am vastly overqualified to be a counter-terrorism operative in 1980s USSR

[@lordmontymord8701]

Or in 2000s Russia ...

[@thefrenchbaguette919]

@@lordmontymord8701 2000s russia is hole diffrent story

[@EricDKaufman]

Tales of Aeroflot... yes please!!! You and paper skies could team up/

[@qhu3878]

I feel like if paper skies and hoe got together it would just be them exchanging horror stories about the soviet airforce and navy respectively

[@JPKyle-ro3sn]

Sounds like a great video collaboration idea 😊

[@3_character_minimum]

Bonus for any Russian/USSR and Australian related shenanigans

[@Gantradies]

@@qhu3878I’d unironically subscribe to another channel for a series like that, that actually sounds incredible- I think their senses of humour/dry sarcasm would mesh wonderfully..

[@jerrystauffer2351]

Paper Skies wouldn't be this kind to the Soviet Union 😂

[@free_at_last8141]

Do you know what a Soviet duet sounds like? A Soviet orchestra after a Western tour.

[@louiscarullo6034]

@@free_at_last8141 that’s amazing

[@Shaun_Jones]

I’m not usually one for Soviet humor, but that one got me.

[@TenositSergeich]

Another one in this vein: What is Bolshoy ("Big") Theatre after a Western tour? - a Small Theatre What is a Small Theatre after a Western tour? - a one-person show ("theatre of one actor" in Russian) What is a one-person show after a Western tour? a shadow play ("shadow theatre" in Russian)

[@free_at_last8141]

@@Shaun_Jones In Soviet Russia, the jokes get you.

[@weldonwin]

SERIOUSLY MAN! You don't have to hit us with that Chicken advert within a minute of starting the video. Don't you be putting that Evil on us!

[@Sinyao]

"They decided to escape by hijacking an entire passenger plane." Ah, there's that lack of education coming back. "They wanted to go to London." Just like lightning.

[@NickJohnCoop]

That chicken Ad was probably an exercise in psychological warfare.

[@hatcrab4923]

Mind control project

[@NickJohnCoop]

@@hatcrab4923 I don't think you can control someone's mind if you've already rendered them insane.

[@aregularperson7573]

Or worst that communist era Czech Polka song If your want to get me to confess to anything just play that song for 24 hours straight I will say what you want.

[@gravitydefeater]

It is Estonian. Maybe they tried to drive everyone nuts to break free.

[@NickJohnCoop]

@@gravitydefeater I could see people *walking* to Vladivostok to avoid this ad.

[@roo72]

Are you saying that jazz players are not extremists by definition?

[@wesleyfravel5149]

Eh technically no?

[@es68951]

Now I understand! that CoD MW2 mission was just a textbook Russian hostage rescue😌

[@stevemc01]

"Remember, no Russian." "Wait... comrade, we're all Russian." "...uhh, exactly."

[@SeanHartnett-t8c]

lol

[@richardarriaga6271]

The biggest piece of Russian propaganda was that FSB would respond to a mass casualty event in less than an hour.

[@McNubbys]

That is frankly the most Soviet/Russian thing I have ever heard...cluster fuck from start to end by the vast majority people involved😳

[@louiscarullo6034]

This was a plane hijacking by Wes Anderson on a ketamine binge Jesus Christ.

[@eazy8579]

Tbf to the Soviet Air Force Grunts, Finland at the time did use a version of the AK (The RK 62) as their standard rifle, but also, it does look prettt different, and I’d imagine these guys didn’t bother to change out of their uniforms before the plane landed

[@legoeasycompany]

Pretty sure the Brown Uniforms and big Red Stars gave it away more than the guns

[@mpnuorva]

From a distance the most visible difference would be that RK has no wooden parts.

[@colinwhalen2632]

I doubt some Russian hicks would be able to differentiate between variants like that, if it was the rifles that gave it away, the RK is close enough

[@fallen_saint6939]

"Have a bit of a laugh every now and then..." 15 minutes later: "The Soviet Police started indiscriminately unloading into the cabin..." The Soviet police and soldiers randomly beat the escaping passengers "She was beaten to death by her boyfriend in 2003"

[@flazzorb]

Somehow, this really is light in comparison.

[@revanati222]

Yup. I was traumatised. I laughed, but I was definitely traumatised. 😅

[@090giver090]

"And then it gets even worse" - Russian motto since at least 16th century.

[@StegoAqua]

Like is it the blind panic? The apathy? The paranoia?

[@whyjnot420]

In that Ethiopian Air crash the pilot was apparently wrestling for control of the airplane with one of the hijackers, when it crashed. Ditching in the ocean will always be dicey, but if the pilot had been allowed to actually do it properly, it is likely that the ditching would have gone somewhat better. edit: All things considered, that pilot did a great job.

[@CaptainFutura]

The death toll was so high for a completely different reason- many of the passengers inflated their life vests before they ditched, therefore couldn't get out of the plane.

[@whyjnot420]

@@CaptainFutura Correction: The death toll was so high for SEVERAL reasons. The pilot fighting for control of the plane IS ONE OF THEM. Go away. We don't need fools like you who have the comprehension level of a chipmunk.

[@revanati222]

"What qualifications do you have in hostage rescue situations?" "We have previous experience and training on a Western military simulation" "What simulator is that?" "The Operation Wolf coin operated console."

[@alexdemoya2119]

Jazz musicians using guns and IEDs to escape the USSR Modern tankie: "The USSR was amazing!"

[@richardarriaga6271]

I just argued with Hakim defenders about that. They resort to ad hominem instead.

[@Whatshisname346]

Random tankie in the comments screams into the void: 'but why would they want to leave the Soviet Union?'

[@michaelimbesi2314]

There used to be a joke in the USSR about touring musicians: A quartet of violinists returns from an international competition. One of them was honored with the opportunity to play a Stradivarius violin, and cannot stop bragging about it. The violinist who came in last grunts: "What's so special about that?" The first one thinks for a minute: "Let me put it to you this way: just imagine that you were given the chance to fire a couple of shots from Dzerzhinsky's Mauser..." (For those not familiar, Dzerzhinsky was the head of the Cheka, the original predecessor to the KGB)

[@barrybend7189]

A show so ridiculous not even Monty Python would be able to match.

[@Knight6831]

So we are talking about Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-154B Careless flying from Irkutsk to Leningrad with a stop at Kurgan with 8 crew and 76 passengers aboard

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Mayhaps

[@rafale1981]

„Georgiy Historianevich, what should we make our next Film about?“ „Well, Vasiliy Writeryevich, what about that one time a completely crazy family of siberians hijacked an airliner to escape the Rodina and everyone died horribly?“ „Good idea, Georgiy Historianevich. This will make everyone realize how much better they are off staying in glorious Russia. And we shall name it „Mama“, to underscore the depth of the Russian soul.“

[@stephenbond1990]

To be fair to the Soviet troops at that airbase, the Fins at the time and still do use their own version of the AKM as their standard infantry rifle (Forgotten Weapons has covered most of the variants by now), most versions are pretty visually distinct from you garden variety Soviet AKM but I'm not sure our "Heroes" would know the difference. Also, I bet that flag they mocked up was made from some conscript's bedsheet and shirt.

[@BalshazzarWastebasket]

jazz was pretty popular in the ussr. i had quite a few musician friends from there and they seemed to plat freely -as long as the show did not involved unlicensed lyrics. the soviets had no issue with music and in fact encouraged visitors from other countries to tour in the ussr. their issue was with subversive lyrics, which was wy rock, was more of an issue for them. russians are also, from my impression very competitive on a personal level, and jazz , offers a good venue for them to show off and play against each other.

[@JanoTuotanto]

Jazz was considered "proletarian" music from the cotton kolkhozes of the South

[@090giver090]

@@JanoTuotanto Depends on the exact rea. In early USSR (20s-early 30s) it was indeed considered a "proletarian" black music. During the Stalin's and Chruschev's era it was branded as decadent bourgeoise influence. In the late USSR it was kinda "meh... whatever" attitude.

[@TravelerZ24]

I have a friend who is obsessed with Siberia and the white Russians. He was devastated when he heard that kolchak might be getting removed from Kaiserriech. There's a movie about him "the Admiral" which I found alright to watch, though the subtitles were on and off and the video quality was poor as it was through KZbin

[@Hannah_Em]

For anyone curious, the Finnish text on the hangar at 12:59 reads "Putin is an asshole of epic proportions" (at least according to google translate)

[@j.k.kaisla1431]

You are correct. I'm Finnish.

[@rashkavar]

Wow, a trip from 1980s Siberia to 1980s Japan would have been quite the shock to the system. This is going from a place that was already economic doldrums in an entire country that was falling apart economically at this point to an economic powerhouse at the height of the bubble economy, when cash was just flowing like water through the whole system. (Seriously, Japan's bubble economy is *weird* from a capitalist perspective - it's like hyperinflation because the economy is genuinely doing that well, rather than because the government is printing off money at an irresponsible rate.)

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

Oh yeah, the Japanese Bubble Economy was a perfect storm of everything going "right" in the worst combination of ways...

[@krissteel4074]

I was thinking, this was kind of adorable story of a jazz band on the road that decided to defect... then they started blasting Aw jez 😧

[@Didntwanttomakeauser]

Putin on eeppisten mittasuhteiden kusipää That's totally something the Finns would write on the side of a building.

[@jack80721]

As an Estonian, I both love and hate that the chicken minced meat ad is the one famous thing about us lol.

[@Jfk2Mr]

Well, that hijacking was a mess - I recall there was a number of successful hijackings with no casualties on either side - plane was going to Eastern Berlin, hijacker forced it to land on Berlin Tempelhof (which was in Western Berlin), where he plead for asylum (and sometimes other passengers used this to also leave eastern block)

[@eriknoorvali]

That chicken ad was a bit of a meme in Estonia back in the day. I was born in the nineties, so I never saw it, but my parents have talked about it a lot

[@cdcdrr]

Me: A Soviet Jazz band hijacking a plane? What, did they put all their firearms inside the instrument cases? HoE: They noticed the double bass couldn't fit through the scanner. So they sawed off their shotguns and put their weapons and bombs in their double bass. Me: Goddamnit, I called it!

[@Gantradies]

On the one hand, Credit to the authorities for actually seemingly-competently trying to negotiate after the people responsible for the initial, likely Krokodil-fueled “shoot the airliner down!” Crashed and passed out, but given just how much of a clauterfuck the storming was…. Also, respect for that hostess :( she was probably the least deserving casualty in the whole mess..

[@thejudgmentalcat]

I obviously did not remember anything past "Russian musical family defects" cuz I didn't realize how violently it all went down 😢

[@irishpotatothief531]

This is somehow the most well thought out soviet operation ive heard of. And it still ended chaotically

[@dark_drakon6814]

Video of Soviet Airplane Oh no, Flashback to TU-104

[@koghs]

There was also a case of former RAF pilots SUCCESSFULLY escaping occupied Czech Republic on THREE hijacked passenger planes with their entire family. But they were all either airline pilots or former airline pilots so that was probably much easier.

[@smallishfilms8362]

What I don’t understand is how they couldn’t just put everyone in the band and then just go to London to play a concert and defect etc

[@nathanweitzman9531]

or go to an UK embassy in any other country

[@P45K141N3N]

"Putin on eeppisten mittasuhteiden kusipää" :DDD

[@Canleaf08]

Imagine the Nord West Theater situation. They killed hundreds of patrons with an chemical agent, which is said to be a variant of fentanyl. Same issue. Same outcome.

[@090giver090]

Nord Ost.

[@DisFantasy]

This was a greater misadventure than most of your Russian Navy videos.

[@TycoonTitian01]

Woah I completely forgot I saw the pre-publishing of this, proceeded to have a shit day at work, and now get to watch this now that I’m home. Nice

[@PTFM-v9m]

If your looking for a less horrific defection case look up the AN-2(yes the dubble decker) that got ditched by an Ukranian flight mechanich off Gotland in the late 80's. Sweden scrambled a pair of Viggens to intercept the slow and odd track, but got there to late to find it flying.

[@farnow01]

I don't like jazz.

[@antlionworkerfan2007]

Buzzshit, who the beeswax do you think you are to proclaim you don’t like jazz, imagine if your honey flew into the room and you told her “you stink of weeds”, simply offensive is what you are. Bee my guest, defend your honor!

[@louiscarullo6034]

How uh…Bavarian of you >:-3

[@TheJudge2017]

I knew I hated Alexander Ovechkin

[@93MANIAC]

If this events sounds familiar to anyone just Google Japan Air Lines Flight 351 and you IL see why

[@Jump-Shack]

Can't escape the chicken AD. Also, I guess the family wanted to see what london was like maybe

[@Spiderfisch]

I always thought the Gorbachev pizza hut ad is the greatest ever but that chicken ad surpasses it

[@ComfortsSpecter]

3:07 Well, They were Dissidents Just the Cool and Jivey kind Musical Dissidents

[@TheAKgunner]

My first reaction to this: The Soviets had a jazz band? My second reaction was: WHAT, THATS WHAT I’M MOST SURPRISED ABOUT?!

[@arizona-hunter6684]

When the KGB can’t find a reason to incarcerate you with the rest of your family because of silly little decision like trying to leave the USSR. That deserves an award. Mate, as one Aussie to another. Can you do a video on the Australian/New Zealand militaries and some of the questionable decisions (Emu War)

[@quentinking4351]

That jazz cover of the Soviet Anthem slaps. Hope it doesn't get copyright claimed

[@TheJudge2017]

They could have just flown to London.... And not Hijacked a plane.... That was already going to the destination.... WTF Russia

[@michealoflaherty1265]

So presumably for a large part of the flight they were flying on instruments......😂😂😂

[@karlpeter3909]

She really named her kids with the most stereotypical Russian names possible...

[@joshualwychgel4593]

This is a terrible story. I will remember it forever.

[@nikouussilta4086]

The ad in the beginning for some odd reason is in Finnish :D EDIT: It is Estonian ad, just happens to be that the two words used in it are pronounced exactly the same way in finnish.

[@eriknoorvali]

It's in Estonian

[@Whatshisname346]

Estonian is quite close linguistically to Finnish.

[@nikouussilta4086]

@@eriknoorvali I looked it up and you're right it is in fact an Estonian ad! The words "kana" and "liha" are pronunced exactly the same as in finnish

[@LethalJizzle]

"So anyways, i started blasting" - Russian security services

[@vegas9202]

I am now very interested in that weird chicken add since its in Estonian so if anyone has more context pls reply. Thx in advance

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

The safest Russian security ops:

[@michaelusswisconsin6002]

Who knew that capitalism convinced them that not starving was a good thing.

[@MrGreghome]

The finish service rifle is actually....RK 62 which is actually, an AK.

[@ericmyrs]

As a musician with a large, valuable instrument, getting it into the cabin isn't unusual. Double basses usualy go in the hold, but most airlines will let you bring a saxophone. If you're really concerned about it and it is very large, you can sometimes buy a seat for it.

[@highdriver100]

as a Finn, i approve of your hangar texts XD

[@Jedi.Toby.M]

look, I stopped feeding my kids, and pushed my lady down a flight of stairs...THIS IS IMPORTANT...why should I feed my own kids when the social safety nets are there to do that for me?!? now that your distracted.....IS THIS YOUR CARD?!?!?! did I do that right? TaaaDaaaaah! relax I don't have kids.....and KZbin really likes....comments...

[@CPU9incarnate]

If this video is meant as a palette cleanser, why subject us to Chicken Ad PTSD?

[@agesanderas3250]

That jazzy Soviet anthem is very nice!

[@CaptainBanjo-fw4fq]

And truly represent the victory of capitalism over communism - for what could be more decadent and corrupt than smooth jazz?

[@Ciborium]

It is an alright town, but it ain't no Chelyabinsk.

[@Black.Templar_002]

STOP BRINGING UP THE CHICKEN AD!

[@wombatgirl997]

I haven't watched this video yet, but this topic seems like something I would see on Paper Skies, and that is a massive compliment.

[@z3122]

That chicken advert will haunt me til the end of time.

[@Hahnanda]

Soviet era jazz is one of my special interests! Check out Funked Up East here on KZbin for a great collection of albums.

[@scottessery100]

Loved seeing you enjoy Russian 🇷🇺 mre with lazer pig 👍🏽😊

[@josephglatz25]

Irkutsk mentioned, but nothing about Mel Brooks' the Twelve Chairs?

[@DutchSkeptic]

In Soviet Russia, plane hijacks YOU!

[@jarheadjew06]

Something tells me you're gonna use that frikkin chicken ad every chance you can...

[@alexmckenna1171]

Teacher: "I hear you used the C-word Billy" Yes Miss. "It wasn't Clever was it?" "No miss.... It was C..."

[@ComfortsSpecter]

Incredible Waste of Comfort Almost everything about this is just so utterly Disappointing Great presentation Mostly Good work Thanks

[@MrsGozdzikova]

honestly, that jazz soviet anthem slaps

[@dannyboy-vtc5741]

Tu 154, wasn't a small plane by any metrics, in fact it was the biggest passenger plane in the world when it came out, not sure was it before the 747, but i think it maybe could pack more pax than the queen. Can't speak for it's fuel economy, but i do know it was a regular on transcontinental flights.

[@jamesrjohanniii774]

But now I am worried about why h had an extra wife. Why ? What did the last one do ? Or ? I have questions ❓!!! Also wait Soviet jazz ! That is fundamentally counter intuitive to what jazz and Soviet. I just. Why are you trying to break my brain !!

[@mecadragoon]

everytime you play the chicken ad i get a stroke

[@dianabowman7042]

It's disgraceful that the special forces team made no effort to identify the hijackers from the passengers. If I had to wait through over 5 hours with a shotgun being waived in my face only to be shot and beaten by the men who were supposed to save me, I would be incredibly pissed off. RIP Tamara, another wonderful and exceptional flight attendant who went beyond and above her duty to her passengers and to the other brave members of the crew.

[@Nolsen]

I think "Soviet Jazz Hijackers" would be a really good band name

[@Josh-hv2ze]

Jazz Soviet Anthem sounds like a great Gen 5 Pokémon soundtrack

[@tommythetoe]

That movie was very hard to follow. it skips around in time a LOT, the mother survives you really need subtitles to follow it.

[@stephenbritton9672]

Unbelievable, funny, and poignant. The jazz national anthem was nice touch

[@doctorgeneric8070]

The Soviet Partridge family was way more intense than the American one, wow.

[@sanuku535]

That's so out there without this video I wouldn't have believed that. Even for Soviets it's wild.

[@cuff02]

The Oveshkin’s? Any relation to the hockey player? 😂

[@lachbullen8014]

First off the story is sad and depressing and I want to ask the simple question why didn't they simply just purchase tickets fly the Finland and seek Asylum..

[@Canleaf08]

mmh. You needed to get your passport granted first with a definite and legit reason. And then you need to get a flight close to Finland. And then do this without being summoned to the KBG! People reported defectors.

[@koghs]

Whole motivation of those hijacking shenanigans was being able to bring your whole family with you, which you couldn't do for international flights cause airports started to check for entire families boarding such routes as there were multiple successful escapes in such a manner previously.

[@methanbreather]

Like just for the first 9s. Now I am going to watch the rest...

[@colbunkmust]

Russian hostage rescue: cluster fuck💀 Russian chicken ad: cluster cluck🐔

[@ClimateScepticSceptic-ub2rg]

Just as you thought they could not get any more incompetent...

[@HandyMan657]

The emotional rollercoaster, ahhhhhh.. Hehehehe Thanks for another awesome episode, HoE. Take care.

[@anzaca1]

13:26 Finland used a copy of the AK47, though.

[@AtholAnderson]

True, but the RK 62 is visually rather different from an AKM/AK-74

[@crissagram]

"I fear no man. But that Chicken ad...it frightens me."

[@schalitz1]

Russia's relative "success" despite their conplete and utter incompetence never ceases in amaze me.

[@ZendegiLeonard]

In a world of correlation, let us all blame jazz for this event