The movie "Operation Moscow" was a hit, and witnesses told the details of the bandits in those years
Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Zhang Lei
The movie "Operation Moscow" adapted from a real case is being screened on National Day. Ai Anjun, the original author of the documentary report "The Great Robbery of the Sino-Russian International Train" and the general counsel of the film, said excitedly after watching the movie: "The film seems to make me go back to 30 years ago, when some of the witnesses are no longer there, but many scenes and pictures still remain in my heart." ”
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On October 23, 1993, the Beijing Evening News published an excerpt from "The Story of Bandits on International Trains", and the correspondent signed at the end of the article was Ai Anjun, then deputy director of the propaganda department of the Beijing Railway Public Security Bureau. Today, Ai Anjun still retains the Beijing Evening News, and several yellowed old newspapers have been carefully folded and put away by him, "These are all sensational historical marks." ”
Photographed on December 25, 1993, during the Al Son-A-Army trip to Russia to secretly extradite transnational robbers
After the reform and opening up, many Chinese "grandfathers" brought consumer goods to Russia through international trains for transnational trafficking. On May 26, 1993, the third international train from Beijing arrived in Moscow on the 31st after a long journey of 6 days and 6 nights. Ai Anjun recalled: "Since the second day of the train leaving the customs in Erlianhot, Chinese gangsters have been constantly carrying firearms, daggers, electric batons and other murder weapons on the train, they stripped passengers naked, robbed valuables, many passengers were injured, stabbed, and three female passengers were violated. After being gang-raped, two women were forced out of their cars halfway. Ai Anjun was only in his 20s when he participated in the bandit eradication operation, and he not only recorded this history in words, but also left many precious photos.
The reporter noticed that an old photograph was taken in the box of a train that secretly extradited suspects from Russia in December 1993. Sitting between Ai'an Jun and a female policeman was the only female bandit leader at that time, Zhao Jinhua, known as "Second Sister". "Zhao Jinhua used to sell clothes at a stall in Beijing's Xidan Hundred Flowers Market, and later came to Russia in the name of studying at his own expense, where he met Zhu Xingjin, one of the bandits at a local casino, and the two became 'sisters' and have since embarked on this road of no return." Ai Anjun recalled. In the film, Cui Zhenhai, a Chinese criminal policeman played by Zhang Hanyu, portrays the heroic and fearless image of a Chinese policeman based on Ai Anjun and his colleagues. Miao Qingshan, the villain bandit leader played by Huang Xuan, made the audience feel that the four bandits were rampant and twisted their hearts.
On the way to secretly extradite the suspect back to Beijing (right, Ai'an Jun)
Cistern Palace motorcycle battle, rocket base fighter trade, Sino-Russian train rail change station duel ... Several battle scenes in the film made the audience's blood boil. However, there was no fierce firefight in the real bandit operation, and "the capture operation was deployed in advance, mostly at night, when the enemy was at its most relaxed." There are Russian police armed cooperation, but hand-to-hand combat is also indispensable in the arrest, and many police officers have different degrees of injuries. Ai Anjun recalled to reporters that at that time, the Chinese police could not carry weapons out of the country, but the bandits were all armed with live ammunition. During the operation, the Chinese police also used wisdom, and when arresting the leader Newton, the police learned that Newton had a feud with a local black boss, Brother Li, and decided to use Brother Li to cooperate with the operation. This plot is also projected in the film - Andy Lau's Vasily is a character with both positive and negative sides, good and evil. "The film has been adapted from film and television innovation on the basis of real cases, but the core of the Chinese police's fearlessness, courage and resourcefulness in the face of special situations and great difficulties has not changed." Ai Anjun said.
In 1993, he secretly extradited the suspect in the Sino-Russian international train robbery to return to China
After a joint investigation by the Chinese and Russian police, nearly 70 criminals were arrested in three months. In April 1994, the transnational robbery case was tried by the Beijing Railway Transport Intermediate Court, in which 31 people were sentenced to life imprisonment or higher, several criminal leaders were sentenced to death, and 14 people were sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. Since then, arrests of those caught have continued for many years. Until 2012, Shao Xun, the last main culprit, Shao Xun, who had become a charity entrepreneur, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, so that all the criminals involved in the Sino-Russian international train robbery and related cases were arrested.