In war, no one suffers the most than women; and if women also participate in war, the stories among them are mostly touching.
On August 12, 1945, this point in time was less than three days after the Japanese surrender, but on the Tianchang Mountain in Suifenhe City, a Chinese girl was killed in a Japanese fortress. She was not a soldier or a civilian who had been wantonly killed by the Japanese army, but carried a white flag and an olive branch of peace to the Japanese positions to negotiate peace between Japan and the Soviet Union.
As the saying goes: "Two armies are at war, and they don't cut each other." "Not to mention that this little girl is only 17 years old. Her name is Galina Vasilievna Dubeeva, and the story begins with the entry of a million Soviet troops into the northeast.
▲ Galia
At 00:00 on August 9, 1945, more than 1.5 million Soviet troops raided the Japanese Kwantung Army, marching into the three eastern provinces from the east, west and north, and attacking the Japanese troops stationed in the northeast. Soon, the Japanese Kwantung Army on the front line was beaten to the point of losing armor and corpses, and the city of Suifenhe was quickly conquered by the Soviet army, but the remaining Japanese troops hid in the fortress of Tianchangshan, which was located here, and continued to resist.
Located on the outskirts of Suifenhe City at an altitude of 719 meters, Tianchang Mountain is flat in appearance and dense vegetation in summer, but in fact this place has been used by the Japanese army since 1934 and a large number of fortress bases have been built. In 1940, as many as 30,000 Japanese troops were stationed here, so that the fortress was known as the "Maginot Line in the East".
When the Soviet soldiers approached the fortress, there were not only 450 Japanese troops led by Ishijima Nagayoshi, but also 150 Japanese civilians, as well as some traitors who followed the Japanese. Apparently, the Japanese diaspora thought that hiding in the fortress would save them from the fighting, but the Japanese troops in the fortress wanted to take Japanese women and children with them and go to hell with them.
At that time, the Soviet army, out of a humanitarian point of view, did not want to hurt innocent people, so it was constrained when attacking the fortress. They could not bear to use heavy artillery, nor did they dare to use grenades and other large-scale lethal weapons, so they had to attack forward with their lives against the Japanese artillery fire. As a result, several Soviet attacks failed to conquer the area, and there were even many casualties.
Seeing that the casualties were too heavy, the Soviet commander, after analyzing the international situation, decided to find a person who understood the Chinese of Japan and Russia to negotiate with the Japanese troops in this area and persuade them to surrender. After all, the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States not long ago are still warm, and it should be impossible for the Japanese not to accept the armistice.
However, most of the Soviet soldiers also came from poor families, let alone educated, and even those who heard "foreigners" speak were probably experienced on the Soviet-German battlefield. Therefore, the Soviet command immediately decided to find a person from Suifenhe City who could take on this big responsibility. They then went to the city to ask the locals "who can speak Both Japanese and Russian", hoping that even one person has a background in Japanese and Russian.
After the people of Suifenhe City learned of the Soviet army's intentions, they also began to launch a "carpet- style" search of the surrounding villagers in the whole city, and finally, no one in the crowd asked: "Gala can speak Japanese." When the Soviets heard the news, they immediately entrusted the people to lead the way and ran to Galia's house. In this regard, the Soviet soldiers were full of expectations for an armistice, but they did not expect that the tragic life of a flower girl had begun.
Born in 1928 in Suifenhe, on the border of Heilongjiang, China, Galia was born to an authentic Shandong father and a Ukrainian mother. Therefore, Galia has inherited the excellent bloodline of her parents since childhood, and she looks smart and clever, which is very cute. Galia's family is also relatively wealthy in Suifenhe City, so Galia lived under the protection of her parents in her childhood, received a systematic education from the beginning of her youth, and won the Golden Lily Singer Award for the Russian Diaspora Concert when she was studying, and her beauty and talent made him outstanding in this small city of less than 10,000 people, and many people knew her.
However, when the Soviets came to the door, Galia's mother was so upset that she even tried to refuse the Soviets to meet. But Galia knew that among the repeated Tianchangshan fortresses in the mouths of the Soviet army, there were also classmates and friends she had been close to, and she did not want them to die in this war. Perhaps she had also thought in her heart that the war was coming to an end, and she did not want any more tragedies. In this way, Galia stepped forward and insisted on going again and again, and finally was able to persuade her mother to accompany the Soviet soldiers to the fortress of Tianchangshan Mountain, go deep alone, and persuade her to surrender.
At first, when the Japanese army saw that the Soviet army had stopped attacking for a long time, it guessed that the Soviet army was about to persuade it to surrender. In this regard, the Japanese commander Yamahara Jinji calculated the bargaining chips, and he also held the "daydream" attempt to achieve the withdrawal of soviet troops through negotiations. Thus, the negotiations between Galia and the Japanese army began in this context.
In fact, what kind of "goods" the Japanese soldiers during World War II are, we must all know it. Therefore, when Galia arrived at the Japanese fortress under the escort of the Soviet squad, the Japanese soldiers stopped the EscortIng Soviet soldiers and offered to let Galia meet her commander alone. Fortunately, at that time, the Soviet army was afraid that Galia could not remember too much of the content of the surrender, so they wrote down the conditions for the Japanese army on a piece of paper, so that Galata could read them out when she persuaded the Japanese army to surrender. So, after agreeing to the Japanese request, Galia entered the fortress alone to persuade her to surrender.
However, due to the fact that the conditions on both sides were difficult to accept for a while, when Galia finished reading the contents of the paper, Yamahara told her that she should think about it for a day, so she temporarily let Galia follow the Soviet troops outside the fortress to go back first. The first day of negotiations came to an end, but this apparent calm foreshadowed the "mountain cry tsunami" of the next day.
Sure enough, the accident happened the next day.
On August 12, Galia still went up the hill for the second time on a Soviet escort. At first, the Japanese troops outside the fortress still blocked the advance of the Soviet soldiers as they had done on the first day, leaving Only Galia alone to enter the fortress. This time, Galia spent more than three hours in the fortress, and the strange reactions of the Japanese troops outside the fortress from time to time attracted the vigilance of the Soviet soldiers.
Sure enough, when Galia finally walked out of the fortress, just as the Soviets were about to inquire about the results, gunshots suddenly rang out in the fortress, shooting Galia halfway down to the ground. Several Soviet soldiers wanted to rush to the rescue of Galia, but they did not want to be killed by Japanese machine guns. The surviving Soviet soldiers decisively split into two groups, one immediately returned fire in the direction of the fortress, and the other immediately rushed back to the base camp to report to the commander the news of the failure to persuade the surrender. In the rain of bullets, Galia was dragged into the cave of the fortress by the Japanese army.
Soon after, yamashita fired thousands of cannons, and the Soviets finally couldn't help but be patient and decided to blow up the shameless Japanese army in the fortress. With the help of heavy fire, Soviet soldiers rushed into the fortress and fought to the death with the Japanese troops in the fortress. At noon on August 15, 96 hours later, the emperor's jade sound sounded, and only 26 Remaining Japanese soldiers surrendered at Tenchozan. When the Soviets cleaned up the battlefield, they saw nothing from Galia except the bodies of the people who had been persuaded to surrender that day, as well as the wreckage of the flesh and blood in the fortress.
But we know how the inhumane Japanese army has always dealt with women, not to mention these diehards who died in battle until the last moment? However, in those turbulent times, who cares about a Chinese citizen who died in the fire? In the end, the cause of Galia's death became a mystery, and even the honor of martyrdom was not received. But what makes people feel relieved is that 60 years later, this monument to the beautiful girl with no grave and biography has received an inscription written by Russian President Putin and the common remembrance of the Chinese and Russian peoples.
▲ Musical tribute to Galia
As early as the 1980s, merchants and compatriots on both sides of the Suifen River, after hearing about Galia's deeds, spontaneously organized themselves to find Galia's relatives and the Soviet soldiers who escorted her. After years of searching, she finally found her relatives and the home of Fidolchenko, the Soviet captain who escorted her.
Although unfortunately Captain Fidolchenko has passed away, fortunately, Captain Fidolchenko's daughter-in-law, Valenkina, remembers his deeds. In the end, after many people's memories and decryptions, Galia's deeds were sorted out and made public. Today, under the sponsorship of Chinese and Russian friends, her statue also stands tall in the middle of the "Galia Park".
When news of the statue's completion reached Russia, Putin was full of praise for Galia's story. In his letter, there is a passage that reads: "The monument to the 'Angel of Friendship and Peace' erected for this purpose ... It will be respected by future generations. I suggest that the monument should be inscribed with the following words: Our friendship is mutual understanding, trust, shared values and interests. We will remember the past and look forward to the future! ”