In 1945, the Red Army of the Soviet Union sent troops to northeast China, defeated the Japanese army in the northeast, and captured many Japanese troops, including more than 10,000 young Japanese women. Not long after, Japan surrendered, and the capture of more than 10,000 female soldiers became a headache for the Soviet Union.
So what did the Soviets do with the more than 10,000 young Japanese female soldiers captured?
The Soviets used two ways to deal with the capture of young Japanese female soldiers.
First, some young Japanese female soldiers were left in the northeast.
The Soviets did this for two reasons:
1. After World War II, the Soviet Union itself had a serious imbalance between men and women, so it was absolutely impossible to bring the captured more than 10,000 young Japanese female soldiers to the Soviet Union.
2, the problem of occupying resources, during the war, the degree of food and clothing must be strictly treated, if the Soviet Union brought more than 10,000 Japanese female soldiers to the Soviet Union, to a large extent, it will occupy the resources of the combatants' funds, shelter, medical treatment and food. Not only does it accelerate the imbalance between men and women, but it also plays a small role as a target of captivity.
At that time, not only these female soldiers remained in the northeast, but also the pioneering corps formed due to the lack of resources. They are accompanied by the cold land of the northeast, but they have two very different endings.
The conditions of operations at that time were very poor, let alone as prisoners. First of all, there is no resource, food, clothing, housing and transportation is difficult to meet the needs of human body functions; secondly, the environment is harsh, most of the time in the northeast is cold weather, outdoors can not withstand the cold; finally not to mention the medical conditions, these female soldiers and pioneer corps are prisoners, there is no slight use, how can the Soviet Union be willing to leave them some medical personnel and medical drugs. Combining these poor living conditions, it is conceivable that these female soldiers and pioneers who were captured had a tragic end either by starvation, or by freezing to death, or by being tortured to death by disease.
The surviving portion of the captives may have cost them the rest of their lives of good fortune. The Chinese people advocate equality and freedom, help others for pleasure, and believe that saving people's lives is better than creating the aging of the seven-level floating massacre. Therefore, on the one hand, the Chinese people adopted these prisoners and took care of their food, clothing, shelter, and transportation; on the other hand, the leadership of our Party has a certain preferential treatment policy for these prisoners, allowing those with medical experience to enter the field hospitals in the army. China created a better living environment for these captives and allowed them to survive smoothly.
Second, those who have labor force travel with the army.
Based on the dual factors of the imbalance between men and women in the Soviet Union and the need for a large number of personnel in combat, the Soviet army eliminated female soldiers and the elderly, sick and disabled among the captured Japanese personnel, leaving captives with labor force, who were taken to difficult areas such as the Caucasus and Siberia for more intense work. These captives with labor power have only one ending—death.
The objective reason is that the weather in Siberia is colder and worse than in the northeast, with ice and snow all year round; the subjective reason is that the food is lacking and the Soviet medical staff do not treat it. So these captives were doomed to die of exhaustion from intense work, to die of illness, and to starve to death from starvation.
These Japanese female soldiers and pioneers captured by the Soviet Union had a clear boldness and loyalty to Japan, but they fell to the sadness of the Japanese emperor's surrender and did not return to their roots.
The Soviet way of dealing with these captives was divided by the presence or absence of labour-power, analyzed from an objective point of view:
On the one hand, it solved the shortage of labor and eliminated the useless; on the other hand, it also ensured that the effectiveness of prisoners serving the Soviet army was maximized. Therefore, taking away those who have labor is undoubtedly the best quality solution, and they have to die, very clever.