Feng Yuxiang has done a lot of things, a thousand-word article is difficult to summarize, there are readers who are willing to read xiaobian to introduce the affairs of the Republic of China, pay attention to xiaobian. Feng Yuxiang's life can be said to have gone through all things and finally preserved his reputation, but how he died, many people do not know very well, let's introduce it in detail below.
In 1948, the Soviet "Red Star" published an article, the general content of which was: the Soviet ship "Victory", on the way from New York to Odessa, the film caught fire, due to careless disposal, resulting in sinking.
From here, it was only a shipwreck, but on the death list, there was Feng Yuxiang's father and daughter, which made people feel that this time was not simple. Why did Feng Yuxiang take a Soviet ship, and why did something happen at this time? Xiaobian will tell you about the detailed process.
Starting from the historical background, in 1948, Feng Yuxiang once again went to the Soviet Union, and after returning to China, he received an invitation from the Chinese Communist Party to return to China to participate in the preparations for the People's Political Consultative Conference. If Feng Yuxiang had not died, he would have certainly held an important position in New China, so his unexpected death has also brought unlimited speculation to people.
On July 31, 1948, the Soviet Union's Victory set sail from New York for Odessa. Feng Yuxiang and his family also boarded the ship and prepared to go to the Soviet Union first and return to China.
After several days of voyage, the ship received a strange order to go first to the Egyptian port of Alexandria to receive a group of more than 2,000 Armenians and send them to the Georgian harbor of Batumi.
Something even weirder happened. On September 1, near the port of Odessa, the ship's radio communications were completely interrupted, and the Soviet Union did not take it seriously because of the technology at that time.
It was not until the morning of September 2, when contact could not be reached, that the Shipping Bureau began to investigate the reason for the interruption of communications and ordered all ships going to sea to keep an eye on the whereabouts of the Victory. However, all the news came that the Victory did not contact any ships at all, and there was no signal for help.
The Soviet Shipping Bureau only sent warships to search for and rescue. It wasn't until the evening of September 2 that a pilot sent back a report that 70 kilometers southeast of Yalta had found the wreckage of the Victory, and the surrounding ship's board was full of passengers waiting for rescue.
What happened to the "Victory", and later the Conclusion given by the Soviet authorities was that when it was almost time to arrive in the Soviet Union, a photographer wanted to sort out the film and prepare to return to China and send it to the Ministry of Culture. A sailor was called in to help, but in the process, sparks were caused, the film burned, and eventually led to an unusual fire, killing 40 passengers.
When investigating the cause of the fire, it was also suggested that it was man-made, and that in Alexandria, some saboteurs may have been mixed in and deliberately created the fire. That's why they found a lot of lumpy ore on board, which burned easily and was extremely hot.
In order to end the matter as soon as possible, the Soviet government directly characterized the cause of the fire as film fire, and explained in detail that the film at that time was made of a kind of nitrocellulose, very flammable, as long as the temperature exceeded 40 degrees, it could burn violently.
However, the Soviet government did not hide that some extraordinary things happened during the voyage of the Victory.
When the Victory returned, the New York government had asked for its full disinfection, and after being opposed, it forcibly sent everyone to the hotel for 2 days, during which the ship was all taken over by the Americans.
There was also a Soviet couple, who had an argument while uploading it. The daughter strongly demanded not to return to China, or even jumped out of the window to escape, and the Americans immediately guarded her closely. At that time, the luggage had already been on board, and coincidentally, the girl's luggage was located in the area where the burning was most severe, was it that he found something and strongly demanded not to return home?
What is even more suspicious is that during the voyage of the "Victory", the United States has already reported that the ship has caught fire.
When Stalin learned the news, he also said with great certainty that among the Armenians who accepted it, there must have been American intelligence personnel who were secretly mischievous.