In 1939, before Li De returned to the Soviet Union, he did not take two Chinese wives back, what happened to them?
Xiao Yuehua was born in 1910, is a girl in Baihou Town, Dapu County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, when Xiao Yuehua was two years old, the Qing Dynasty collapsed, Chinese people from feudal society into a new era, but the front is still bumpy, Xiao Yuehua's family is not rich, although it has not yet reached the point of selling her daughter, but Xiao Yuehua followed her uncle to Haifeng to make a living when she was fourteen years old, and entered a sock factory.
At that time, Peng Pan, a proletarian revolutionary in our country, was carrying out revolutionary activities in Haifeng and often entered the factory to do propaganda, so he brought Xiao Yuehua a great influence, and entered the night school to study, embarking on the revolutionary road.
The road of revolution is not easy to walk, if Xiao Yuehua only cares about his own peaceful birthday, although there is no great wealth and nobility in life, it is also ordinary, but Xiao Yuehua's faith is firm, in her view, China is exactly when it needs people like them to pay, the future of the motherland will definitely be beautiful.
Xiao Yuehua also participated in the Red Army's Long March, doing propaganda work in the women's team, and through the introduction of the organization, Xiao Yuehua entered into marriage with the military adviser Li De and became Li De's first wife in China.
In 1928, the 38-year-old Li De successfully escaped from a German prison and fled to the Soviet Union, and became acquainted with Wang Ming, an early revolutionary in China, and was sent to China by the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army to collect Japanese intelligence.
At the beginning of the Red Army, Li De was one of the members of the trio of the highest military leaders, but due to Li De's wrong command, the Red Army was forced to make a strategic shift and paid a terrible price.
Li De's second wife in China was Li Lilian, originally an actress, at the end of 1937, Li Lilian arrived in Yan'an from Shanghai, and then met Li De for the first time at the ball, the two fell in love at first sight, and at that time, Li De planned to live in Yan'an for a long time, so he proposed to Li Lilian.
At that time, Li De had not divorced Xiao Yuehua, Xiao Yuehua insisted on divorce after learning of this matter, Li De and Xiao Yuehua broke off the marriage contract, the son was raised by Xiao Yuehua, and after marrying Li Lilian, Li De and Li Lilian were indeed very in love, and Li Lilian was an assistant teacher in the Luyi Music Department in Yan'an.
However, on August 28, 1939, Li De received a note from a correspondent asking him to hurry to Moscow, because of the suddenness of the incident, Li De was unprepared, even if he wanted to take Li Lilian away, but Li Lilian did not get approval because she did not have a passport and visa, and Since then Li De and Li Lilian have not seen each other again.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Lilian served as the director of the Children's Work Department and the Foreign Liaison Department of the All-China Women's Federation, and then died in Beijing in 1965. Xiao Yuehua continued his revolutionary career after his divorce, and was awarded the rank of colonel after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and later transferred to the rank of deputy military officer, and lived until 1983.
After Flying back to the Soviet Union, Li De taught in Krasnogorsk from 1941 to 1948, and then returned to Germany to settle down, no longer as brazen as before, immersed in translation, in 1974, Li De died at the age of 74.
It is worth mentioning that Li De's first wife was not Xiao Mingyue, but a German girl, but after Li De was arrested, the two were no longer in contact.
Speaking of which, when Li De first stepped into our country, his reputation was not very good, because he quickly fell in love with a Chinese girl and hoped that the other party could sleep with him, but this girl was a husband with a wife, and the husband of the other party did not beat Li De violently, which can be said to be of good character.