As we all know, in the Second World War, the Soviet Union was the country with the largest number of casualties, with a total of 26.8 million deaths, of which only the regular army killed 14 million people, it can be said that more than half of the victories in the European battlefield in World War II were exchanged for the lives of Soviet soldiers, which also caused a large imbalance in the proportion of men and women in the Soviet Union. After the war, the ratio of men to women in the Soviet Union reached 1:2.7, nearly three times the ratio, so the labor shortage in the Soviet Union was severe, and many posts were filled by women, in which case the more than 600,000 Japanese prisoners of war captured by the Soviet Union in northeast China came in handy.
In 1945, the Soviet Union sent troops to northeast China, on August 9, the Soviet Union's 1.5 million troops poured into northeast China like a tide, the Japanese Kwantung Army was vulnerable to the Soviet union's steel torrent, in just one week, it killed 140,000 Japanese troops, 600,000 prisoners, Japan was also forced to surrender under pressure, after the war, the Soviet side of the more than 600,000 prisoners of war Soviet opinion is very unified, that is, to bring them all to Siberia, let them fill the gap in the shortage of labor in the Soviet Union.
Among these Japanese prisoners, the Soviet Union eliminated some of the old, weak, sick and disabled, and the rest of the strong labor was all transported to the Far East for logging and mining work, etc. Beginning in 1950, the Japanese government negotiated with the Soviet Union to bring back these prisoners of war, at the beginning the Soviet Union ignored Japan's demands, but Japan had the support of the big brother of the United States, and after several months of negotiations, the Soviet Union agreed that Japan would return these prisoners of war and repatriate them in batches, until 1956, when all of them were repatriated, however, Of the 500,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians captured by the Soviet Union in 1945, fewer than 340,000 returned to China in 1956, and the remaining 170,000 died in the cold Far East.
According to the memories of the Japanese repatriated prisoners at that time, when they were first escorted to Siberia, thousands of people were frozen to death every day due to their inability to adapt to the cold climate, because the Soviet Union at that time had no sympathy for these prisoners of war, provided only a small amount of cotton clothes and food, and had to perform up to 12 hours of manual labor every day.
At that time, the Japanese prisoners of war were frozen to death in just one winter in the cold Far East, and the prisoners of war who survived the cold winter were better off dead than dead, performing a lot of manual labor every day, and constantly enduring the beatings and scolding of Soviet soldiers and guards, and the women were more ruthless than men, and often the prisoners who were beaten to death were carried out of the camps.
In the first three years, the death toll of prisoners of war was the highest, and after three years, these prisoners of war had adapted to the cold climatic conditions, and the death toll was gradually decreasing, but there were still tired prisoners of war from time to time, and the Soviets had no sympathy for these fallen prisoners of war, and they were greeted only by leather whips and rifle butts, and as long as they could breathe and move, they had to get up and work, or they would wait to be killed or maimed, and the final outcome of these people would only be a dead end.
Because of the shortage of men in the Soviet Union, many posts in the prisoner of war camp were held by Soviet women, for these prisoners of war, the most feared thing is the Soviet female military doctor, because the prisoners of war will be examined by these female military doctors after they are sick, and for the less ill will arrange treatment to let them return to their posts, but for the more serious ones, let them fend for themselves, so every sick prisoner of war life is in the hands of these Soviet female military doctors, whether it is life or death, all in a word.
After the Soviet-Japanese negotiations in 1950, the Soviet Union repatriated these prisoners of war in batches, and for those prisoners of war who were sick or had a low labor force, they were repatriated first, and the rest of the strong labor force continued to work, so how to judge which people could be repatriated first needed these female military doctors, they would order these prisoners of war to take off all their clothes, check the bodies of these prisoners of war, and select those who were not suitable for continuing to work first to prepare for repatriation, but many of them were fishy in muddy waters. But these little tricks have been seen through by female military doctors, as long as there are thieves and slippers, then what greets them must be the violent beating of female military doctors, after the fight, let themselves kill themselves, so that, let alone return to China, whether they can survive has become a problem, naturally no one dares to pretend to be sick again.
Later, after returning to China, Nobuo Kinuchi, a soldier of the Japanese Kwantung Army who had been a prisoner of war, drew his experience into a manga "The Soviet Detention Collection of Kwantung Army Prisoners of War", which had a great response in Japan, and the crimes committed by Japan in the Asian battlefield during World War II were innumerable, and the various massacres of the Japanese army during the war, the experience in the Soviet Union also allowed the Japanese army to experience a feeling of "artificial knife trick me as fish meat", but how can these experiences dispel the pain in the hearts of the Chinese. Every patriotic Chinese should not forget this history of blood and tears!
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