At the beginning of the last century, a Ukrainian girl named 'Fresnel' followed her family along the ussuri railway all the way to the Coast.
Later, in order to make a living, Fresnel, who was only sixteen years old, settled in Suifenhe, China, and worked as a maid in a Russian family. At the age of seventeen, Fresnel met the man who had stayed with him all his life- Zhang Huanxin!
Zhang Huanxin was born in Ye County, Shandong Province, and from an early age he followed his uncle to "break into Guangdong", doing the fur business of "bartering", traveling south and north for more than ten years, speaking fluent Russian.
But later, for unknown reasons, Zhang Huanxin also settled in Suifenhe and worked as a train escort in the local area. In this year, Zhang Huanxin met Fresnel, who was only seventeen years old, and the two soon fell in love.
On February 18, 1928, Zhang Huanxin and his wife Fresnel's third child was born, a little princess, named 'Galia Vasilievna Dubeeva' in Russian. But in fact, her family likes to call her Gala!
Figure | Galia and her brother Zhang Shulie took a group photo
Galia also has two older brothers above and a younger brother below, and because she is the only daughter in the family, she is favored by her parents and brothers. Galia's early childhood can be said to have been spent in a carefree way!
Galia has a formal education, and lives in a multi-ethnic area, surrounded by Russians and Japanese in addition to Chinese, and their relationship is also very good, which makes the diligent and studious Galia easily learn three Chinese.
In addition, Galia is also a versatile "all-rounder"! At the age of 13, she also won the Golden Lily Singer Award for the Russian Diaspora Concert with her classmate Lida, and her singing "White Thorn Plum Blossom" also won the first prize.
Realistically, if there had been no heinous war, and it had been a time of peace as it is now, Then Galia would have lived well and might even have become a musician or a translator.
Of course, this is only if! The era in which Galata lives is doomed to make it impossible for her to live a smooth life, because war is quietly coming!
At 00:10 on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union concentrated more than 1.5 million troops, from the east, west and north, on a front of more than 4,000 kilometers, crossed the Sino-Mongolian and Sino-Soviet borders, and launched a surprise attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army entrenched in northeast China and northern Korea. The Soviet-Japanese war is about to break out!
At this time, Galia, who was in the 17-year-old cardamom age, was also unconsciously arranged by fate to embark on the battlefield of war!
Figure | Strategic deployment map of the Soviet army attacking the Japanese Kwantung Army in August 1945
In this campaign, the Soviet Red Army was completely "prepared", in addition to being fully prepared, it also had a greater advantage in weapons, equipment and strength, and completely grasped the initiative on the battlefield!
Therefore, soon after the start of the war, the Soviet Red Army relied on a powerful offensive to break through all the way, hitting the Japanese Kwantung Army by losing its armor and losing its armor and collapsing!
On August 10, 1945, under the strong offensive of the Soviet Red Army, the urban area of Suifenhe City, where Galia's family was located, was quickly conquered. However, the Japanese Kwantung Army had previously dug a fortress here, and the defeated Japanese army still stubbornly resisted after escaping into the fortress.
On the 11th, the Soviet Red Army issued a notice to the residents of the city: In order to eliminate the Japanese, Suifenhe East Street was transferred to the town of Waimaotun and Funing on West Street.
However, due to the suddenness of the incident, many residents living in East Street did not have time to bring too much belongings, so men, women and children hurriedly moved in groups.
The same was true of The Garia family, who followed her father to drive the family's two cows across the Middle East Railway to West Street.
However, just as Galia and her father were driving cattle across the railway, they found their mother and 15-year-old brother Zhang Shulie in the back being stopped by several Soviet soldiers for questioning.
When Galia saw this, she asked her father to drive the cow first and see for herself what was going on. However, who would have thought that This turn of Galaya would actually make her life trajectory take a one hundred and eighty-degree turn!
It turned out that the Red Army had asked them to register at the headquarters to see who of them could speak Japanese, so that they could help persuade the Japanese troops in the fortress to surrender!
Because with the rout of the Japanese Kwantung Army, some of the Japanese troops stationed there fled to the Mudanjiang area by car and train, causing some Japanese troops and Japanese expatriates left behind in suifenhe to fall into a panic.
Fearing that the Red Army would retaliate against them, they hid in the Tianchangshan Fortress, which was known as "one husband and one wife".
Tianchang Mountain, 693 meters above sea level, is located in the north of Suifenhe City, the western slope of this mountain is steep, and the eastern foothills are bordered by China and Russia, and the terrain is dangerous.
During World War II, after occupying northeast China and Inner Mongolia, the Japanese army built fourteen fortresses on the border line of nearly 5,000 kilometers, and on the thirty-two kilometers of the Suifen River transit line, there were as many as three fortresses, of which the "Tianchangshan Fortress" was the strongest, known as the "Maginot Line in the East"!
After the battle, the urban area of Suifenhe City was quickly conquered by the Soviet army, but the Japanese army inside the Tianshan Fortress was still stubbornly resisting. According to records, the fortress contained more than 450 Japanese troops led by Ishijima Nagayoshi, as well as more than 100 Japanese expatriates.
The reason why the Soviet army could not take it for a long time, in addition to the unusually strong fortress, the most important thing was that there were more than a hundred civilians inside, so the Soviet army did not launch a large-scale artillery attack on it. Where can the most fortified fortress withstand the huge artillery fire?
Therefore, after several attacks did not achieve great results, the Soviet army had to temporarily blockade TianchangShan, gather mechanized troops outside, and deploy tanks and heavy artillery.
Of course, the leaders of the Soviet army also know very well in their hearts that if they attack strongly, they will only cause unnecessary casualties, but now the war situation is tense, and every minute and second cannot be delayed, and they must find a way to overcome it!
And the strong attack is not enough, and there is only one other way to choose -- persuasion.
Figure | Galatia musical
But the question is, for these mad Japanese Kwantung Army, is it really useful to persuade surrender?
You know, at that time, the Soviet army sent an envoy to the underground of Dongning Fortress to persuade him to surrender, and when the envoy was sent out, he was already scaly: his tongue was cut, the five-pointed star carved by the bayonet on the brain door, and the nine fingers were also smashed.
In addition, the Soviet Red Army also let the captured Japanese wounded soldiers shout to the cave to persuade the Japanese soldiers in the cave to surrender, but the Japanese wounded soldier shouted at the cave that he did not want to die under the guns of the Soviet Red Army, and asked his comrades in the cave to kill himself, and the result was beyond doubt.
Therefore, it is indeed not easy to persuade the Japanese troops in the fortress of TianchangshanChi, but this is also the best choice for the Soviet army at present!
Galia understood three Chinese words, plus she was a native of Suifenhe and was familiar with the local Japanese expatriates, so it was the best choice for her to persuade her to surrender.
At the Soviet headquarters, Red Army officers had been working for Galia, hoping that she would help the Soviets persuade the Japanese troops to surrender in the fortress. At repeated requests from Soviet officers, Galia agreed, but she had to appease her mother first!
Figure | Dongning Fortress
After coming out of the headquarters of the Soviet Red Army, Galia walked to her mother, accompanied by four Red Army soldiers. Galia said to her mother, "The Red Army has recruited translators and asked me to go with them to the fortress to persuade the Japanese to surrender!" ”
Galia seemed calm when she said these words, perhaps not wanting her mother to worry about her. But the mother objected to this, firmly disagreeing with her daughter's doing such a dangerous thing, and Galia calmly comforted her mother: "It doesn't matter, there are my Japanese classmates there!" ”
After much effort to persuade her mother, Galia followed the Soviet officer Fidolchenko and several warriors to the main peak of Tianchang Mountain! Before leaving, the mother also took off the flower turban on her head and put it on her daughter's head with her own hands.
Perhaps, for Galia at this time, she did not think about how dangerous the trip really was. Or they felt that the Japanese had fallen, and that they still had the protection of the Soviet Red Army, and there should be no danger.
Of course, it is also possible that he felt that his trip was just to tell his former Japanese neighbors and classmates that they should obediently walk out of the cave so as not to hurt the innocent after the two armies started the war.
Now, we have no way of knowing what was going on in Gala's heart at that time, but she was so calm and calm in the face of danger, so spirited, it was really convincing!
When they were still a few hundred meters away from the fortress, the Japanese soldiers signaled them to stop, allowing Only Galia to enter the fortress to negotiate. At this point, Fidolchenko told Galia that if she was afraid, she could not go.
But Galia did not give up, and after taking a look at the firing holes in the black holes in the Japanese fortress, she resolutely said to Fildochenko: "I still have to try, in case I succeed?" ”
With that, Galia sorted out her clothes and the turban her mother had put on her, and followed the Japanese soldiers deep into the fortress.
There is a legend here: Galia actually went to the fortress of Tianchangshan three times, and when she went the second time, the Japanese officer said that she would give them a little time to prepare, and promised to lay down her weapons and surrender at about three o'clock in the afternoon.
However, when they went up for the third time and were ready to accept the surrender of the Japanese army, the Japanese army suddenly changed its mind and shot and killed the Fellow Soviet soldiers, and Galia was dragged into the cave by them.
But because no one saw the situation at that time, it also became an "unsolved mystery"! But Galia was indeed killed!
The people down the hill waited all night and didn't see anyone coming down, and everyone suddenly understood everything, and it seemed that only the use of force could solve everything.
On the evening of August 13, the Soviet command ordered an artillery strike on the fortress of Tianchangshan! In an instant, tens of thousands of shells roared out from the barrels of the cannons, all pouring into the Tianchang Mountain, scorched earth flying, fire soaring into the sky, the scene was spectacular!
The day and night artillery fire lasted for three days and three nights, the main peak of Tianchang Mountain was cut by more than three meters, and the reinforced concrete fortifications carefully constructed by the Japanese army were also blown up by artillery fire, and the fortifications that were expected to be held for a year turned out to be buried graves.
In addition to thousands of artillery attacks, the Soviet army sent dozens of bombers to bomb the Tianchangshan Fortress in turn, and the entire Tianchangshan was shrouded in smoke from the war!
Figure | Statue of Galia
On August 15, the Japanese troops inside the Tianchangshan Fortress had to surrender to the Soviet Red Army, and only about 20 people were left with a force of more than 100 people.
However, after the battle, the crowd still did not see Galia's figure, and they had to go to the fortress to look for it.
As a result, after a painstaking search, only a remnant of the turban was found, which was worn by her mother herself when Galia went to the fortress to persuade her to surrender!
After the war, more than twenty Japanese troops were repatriated, and the Soviets evacuated the area one after another, and no one testified about Galia's heroic deeds.
When Galia's family came to the Soviet headquarters to inquire about her daughter's whereabouts, the reply was that the vanguard troops had left, and they did not know.
Later, Galia's family came to the Tianchangshan Fortress and searched carefully for every corner, but still did not see Galia's shadow. At that time, many people also speculated, did Galia sacrifice? Or was he stuck in a hole and starved to death? Or did he leave with the Red Army?
At the time, no one could give an accurate answer to this, and because the military failed to comment on Galia's persuasion, Galia was ultimately identified as a war missing person.
As a person who has sacrificed his precious life for the cause of peace, it is really chilling that he did not even have the title of martyr in the end!
But heroes are still heroes after all, and no one will forget them!
At that time, Gala's family had already left Suifenhe!
Later, the Soviet officer Ferdochenko, who had received a Red Star Medal for persuasion, twice told about Galia's heroic deeds on television and believed that the medal should belong to her.
Since then, The heroic deeds of Gala have spread throughout China and Russia!
Later, in order to commemorate Galia, the citizens of Suifenhe erected a statue of her in bronze. Judging from the statue pattern, Galia walked firmly, waving the flower turban left to her by her mother in her hand, looking back at her hometown. Its meaning is far-reaching and touching!
Later, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally wrote an inscription for him: "Our friendship is mutual understanding and trust." We will remember the past and look to the future. ”
Today, although Galia has left us, her spirit will always remain in the hearts of the Chinese and Russian peoples, and her contribution to the cause of world peace will never be forgotten by history!
Finally, let us pay the highest tribute to this great "angel of peace" Galya!