Man Escaped Soviets by Zip-Lining on Power Lines Over Iron Curtain–Tastes Freedom in Las Vegas

Man Escaped Soviets by Zip-Lining on Power Lines Over Iron Curtain–Tastes Freedom in Las Vegas
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Michael Wing
Michael Wing
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On a stormy night, a pair of friends set out to prove something to the communists who controlled their country at the tail-end of the Cold War. On a one-way trip, they scaled an electrical tower as thunder boomed. Out of necessity, the two men zip-lined along high-voltage power lines from their homeland, Soviet Czechoslovakia, across the Iron Curtain.

The determined human spirit had beaten the communists, as they found freedom on the other side.

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