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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo, the "Ghost of Kyiv" was not a single person.
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Ukraines Air Force asks to stop producing stupid fake stories. Pilot Serhiy Tarabalka was not the Ghost of Kyiv and he did not have 40 (!!) air victories. He was killed in combat on March 13. The Ghost of Kyiv is a meme, a collective image of all Ukrainian fighter pilots."
The "Ghost of Kyiv" lives on. You cannot kill a myth.
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No, the "Ghost of Kyiv" was not a single person. (Original Post)
ColinC
Apr 2022
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Deuxcents
(16,195 posts)1. Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦
ColinC
(8,291 posts)2. From the responses
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Another person said "if you ask me, all of Ukraine is the Ghost of Kyiv"
Celerity
(43,333 posts)3. Thank you for posting this.
Sláva Ukrayíni!
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)4. I believe it was the great poet, Marvin Gaye, who said,...
"believe half of what you see, son, and none of what you hear"
ggma
(708 posts)5. Gladys Knight
sang it first. 😉
ggma
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)7. Well, Smokey Robinson actually, but...
Marvin's is the definitive version, IMHO.
ggma
(708 posts)8. I agree!
But The Wiki said Gladys...I actually remember because when it came out, I thought he was stepping on Gladys' toes, but Marvin's version got the people up and on the floor!
gg
heckles65
(549 posts)6. This reminds me of the mythical
Col. Tomb of the North Vietnamese air force.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tomb
oldsoftie
(12,533 posts)9. That was rumored to be a Russian pilot. Chinese also shot down US jets.