History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
Japan and China were originally neighbors with water in their own clothes, and the two countries had exchanges a thousand years ago, but in modern times, Japan launched a war of aggression against China, which plunged the lives of our people into a deep and fierce situation. When the Japanese were defeated, the surviving soldiers became prisoners, and what awaited them was a tragic end.
The Japanese Kwantung Army has always been tough, and their loyalty is unmatched by other units. After the Japanese Emperor surrendered, they did not want to believe it and were prepared to make a final resistance, until the envoy came to order them to disarm, and they gave up resistance.
The Soviet army began to receive prisoners of war from this unit, and the nature that awaited these prisoners was a life of darkness. They were taken to bitter cold regions such as Siberia to work as laborers. However, at that time, Japan invested many wars of aggression overseas, and its military strength was very tight, so many women and children in the country were also recruited into the battlefield.
The male captives were short of food and clothing, had been doing ultra-intense work, and would hardly be treated once they fell ill. The Soviet Union did not have a preferential treatment policy for prisoners, who lived at the lowest level.
At that time, the female captives also had to face hard work, they had to do all kinds of rough work during the day, and at night they had to accompany the Soviet soldiers, physically and mentally tortured. At that time, many female soldiers committed suicide, and only a very few survived with perseverance.
It was not until the Soviet Union and Japan established diplomatic relations that the captives were sent back to China. But most of them were already dead, and those who barely survived were tortured. Back home, there are very few female soldiers, they no longer have the sharpness they once had in the battlefield, but instead a kind of helplessness and despair. They rarely spoke, only cried, and never forgot the years of torture.
Compared with them, the captives who remained in our country were very happy. In line with the policy of giving preferential treatment to prisoners, the Fourth Field Army recruited a large number of female soldiers with medical experience, let them enter the field hospitals of our army, gave them a relatively good living environment, and in 1950, released a large number of prisoners back to Japan.
Since ancient times, wars have not been avoided in all parts of the world, and every war is the sorrow of mankind, which has brought endless suffering to the people, and even if the years pass, these pains will not disappear and diminish. We can only remember history, do not forget the national shame, and pray that the tragedy will not be repeated.