Soldiers of the fighter pilot squadron "Heinrich Rau" of the LSK/LV air force - air defense of the NVA as part of a sponsored visit to children and young people in the boarding school of the same name of the Ministry for Foreign Trade in the exchange of ideas and opinions in Coethen in the federal state of Brandenburg on the territory of the former GDR, German Democratic Republic. It was common practice in the GDR to leave children of parents working in capitalist countries outside a certain age in educational institutions in the socialist homeland