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In August of the 34th year of the Republic of China (1945 AD), the Soviet Union officially declared war on Japan. Within a week, the Soviet Red Army had defeated the once invincible elite of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and In order to avoid post-war responsibility, Puyi came to Shenyang with the Japanese army and planned to take a plane to Japan. On August 19, Puyi was waiting for a plane at Shenyang Dongta Airport, who knew that the Soviet Red Army suddenly swarmed, and before the planes could take off, the entire airport was taken by the Soviet side. The Red Army forcibly opened the aircraft hatch, and a tall man with a panicked look and his entourage were arrested. After investigation, this person was Puyi, the Kant Emperor of the "puppet state of Manchukuo".
▲ Puyi was captured
The next day, emperor Puyi of Kant and his entourage of 9 people were escorted by the Soviet army to the Morrokovka shelter in Chita, and later to the Boli Honghezi Detention Center and the No. 45 Special Prisoner of War Shelter. On the way to the Soviet Union, Puyi has been panicked, after all, he has a special identity, and he was captured during the escape, how will the Soviet army deal with him as the Chinese emperor? The Morrokovka shelter already knew puyi's special status, and on the day of Puyi's imprisonment, the Soviet army also held a small banquet for him, and the shelter then sent someone to preach the policy to his people.
▲ Old photographs of Soviet officers
As for the various things that happened in prison later, Puyi was even more stunned, far beyond his imagination. In Puyi's view, where he lived was the life of a prisoner, it was like a retired Soviet hero who could enjoy a high-level convalescent life. In the Soviet prisons, Puyi was given four hearty meals every day, black bread in the morning with coffee or milk; at least two dishes and a soup for lunch, often with Russian characteristics of borscht, Russian pie, Russian red sausage and goulash. At three o'clock in the afternoon, an afternoon tea is arranged, usually black tea with bread and small biscuits; dinner is orthodox Western food, including beef, red wine, etc., as well as Puyi's favorite ice cream.
While giving preferential treatment in terms of food, Puyi's accommodation environment is also very good, he himself owns a set of independent small buildings, surrounded by lush woods, without any barbed wire, and there is no prison or shelter at all. When introducing puyi, the Soviet officer also said deliberately: "You can go out for a walk in your free time, and the scenery here is still very beautiful." Since then, although Puyi has moved back and forth in many shelters in the Far East, his quality of life has basically not changed in the slightest, and the Soviet government has always adopted a preferential treatment policy for him.
▲ Puyi who reads the newspaper in prison
Perhaps because the imprisonment life was too favorable, Puyi gradually forgot his status as a war criminal, began to restore his "emperor" style, and set up a shelf in the Soviet asylum. Due to the relative freedom of imprisonment, the Soviet Union authorized Puyi's daily diet to be served by the people who had been captured with him before, and Puyi, in order to show his special status, ordered his attendants to bow to him every day after dinner as usual. In addition, soon after Puyi arrived in the Soviet Union, he wrote a letter to Stalin and other Soviet leaders, hoping that he would remain in the Soviet Union and not be repatriated to China.
▲Puyi restored the wax figure during the renovation
However, Stalin and others never gave him a clear reply, puyi was not satisfied, began to pin his hopes on the Soviet leaders of the shelter, and he even took out some treasures he carried with him to bribe the Soviet detainees. After enjoying five years of preferential treatment in the Soviet Union, Puyi was transferred to New China by the Soviet Army on July 30, 1950, and then underwent nearly a decade of reform at the Fushun War Criminals Management Center, and was pardoned and released from prison in 1959.
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"The First Half of My Life"