East Meets West: Malev’s First 737s

RStretton

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East Meets West: Malev’s First 737s

02-14-2018, 02:40 AM

The collapse of the Iron Curtain and the resulting switch over of the fleets of the Eastern Bloc flag carriers to Western types was surprisingly fast however the pivot to the West began before the fall of the Wall as Malev illustrates:

East Meets West: Malev’s First 737s - YESTERDAY'S AIRLINES

https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/airline-history-blog/east-meets-west-malevs-first-737s

Nowadays the end of Cold War seems obvious and the thought that the Soviet Union could have persisted bizarre; however in the 1980s this was far from the case. Aside from Tarom the airlines of the Warsaw Pact appeared staunchly pro-Soviet so the pivot to the West by Malev, prior to the fall of the

Malev Boeing 737-200 by rstretton, on Flickr

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02-15-2018, 08:42 PM

Great write up. Thank you for sharing!

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