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Episode Sixty-Eight: The Pathetic Ant Soldier
On September 10, 1945, our regiment assembled at Beiling University in Fengtian (Note 1): Tohoku University, which the author may have called it because the site is there). The Soviets loaded us from Fengtian Station into the wagons under the pretext of "sending us back to Japan."
Each train carries a thousand people, for a total of 20 wagons, saving 50 people per train. In addition, a carriage carrying grain and Soviet escorts was added.
Each carriage had to be loaded with 50 people, which was really crowded. But the thought of being able to return to Japan is not a big deal.
The truck drove out of Fengtian Station, and although it was heading north, no one noticed the problem at first.
The long war is finally over, and we can finally return to our hometown after several years of absence. Although crammed into this cramped carriage, everyone was looking forward to the trip.
- We really think of people too kindly.
This train was not meant to send us back home, but rather a "prisoner escort train" by the Soviet Union to escort us to Siberia to work.
But no one knew then...
After departing from Fengtian, the train ran for a long time. During this period, there will be a stop of at least half a day at each station, and sometimes a full day.
The whole process was chaotic and disorderly, and it was not known whether the Soviet Union had made any plans. However, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers are transported in a day, so whether there is a schedule or not is the same.
The train went all the way north, and the direction never changed, but everyone still believed that it was going back to Japan.
And because of this idea, we would actively help the Soviet side load and unload supplies after stopping at a station.
It's silly to think about it now.
When the train drove from Harbin to a little past Bei'an, it was late autumn, and the yellow poplar leaves covered the ground.
On several occasions along the way, I saw the pitiful figure of Japanese women and children staying at the station waiting to be brought back to Japan (Note 2)).
But after that, the doors of the trucks were locked, and even looking out from the small windows was forbidden by the Soviets.
At this point, everyone began to feel uneasy.
"It's all right, I'm probably going to go back to Japan from Vladivostok."
Although some soldiers are still optimistic about this, I wonder if we really want to send us back to Japan, then it is most economical to start from the port of Liaoning Province.
But now it is pulling us to this kind of inland, and if we pass through Vladivostok again, the distance feels farther and farther away.
Did the Soviets love to do such uneconomical things?
I was not the only one who was disturbed by this, and from this time onwards there was a tragedy in which someone tried to jump out of the car and escape, but was found by the escort guard and shot and killed.
If they want to send us back to Japan, why are they still shooting?
On the other hand, if he could really return to Japan, why would that person flee?
So everyone felt that "the more you think about it, the more wrong it is."
The northernmost railway station in China
Pulling us restless passengers, the train arrived at the last stop in Manchuria at the end of September, the Heihe River.
Autumn in Northern Manchuria is finally over, and snowflakes are beginning to fall sporadically.
From here, across the river, it was Soviet territory, and the area around the riverbank was lined with hills full of supplies that had originally belonged to the Kwantung Army, which had been transported from all over Manchuria. (Note (3))
"Isn't this a robbery?"
It was only a month since the end of the war, and I really admired that they could move so many things.
In order to be able to quickly move these booty back to soviet territory, we were also transported.
Isn't this just a matter of taking advantage of the fire and robbing people to ask the owner of the disaster to help move things?
In addition, here we finally learned about the final destination of the trip.
"We will send all of them to Siberia as prisoners of the Soviet army."
This was the result of a comrade who knew Russian overhearing a Conversation with a Soviet officer.
"No, it won't..."
"Sure enough, we were deceived."
The people in the carriage are divided into two views, but no matter which view they hold, they are not in the good mood of similar travel before.
As if in preparation for this trip to Siberia, the Soviet side issued the following instructions to the carriages:
"Each person gives the map, notebook, and writing instrument in his hand to his or her captain, who is responsible for handling it."
Collect maps, notebooks, what is this to do?
Presumably, the map was collected to prevent the Japanese soldiers from escaping, and the collection notebook was to prevent the Japanese soldiers from recording the road conditions before Siberia in detail as a reference for escape.
"Bastards! We were deceived! ”
"If you want to run, take advantage of the present, but how to go?"
Someone opened the map and tried to escape, but even if they could successfully escape from here, they had no idea what to do next.
Siberia covers an area of 13.22 million square kilometers
Later I heard in the Siberian shelter that anyone who escaped at this time would soon be caught by the Soviet soldiers.
"Go to the Soviet Union first, and then you can return home from Vladivostok."
There was a corporal who could say such things optimistically, but that was what I prayed in my heart.
"Everyone must persevere to the end with hope."
We don't need our chief, Lieutenant K, to say that we know that there is no better way.
Fortunately, many of my comrades-in-arms and commanders have known since hebei at that time. I feel that as long as I stay with them, I should be able to survive no matter what I face.
If you really reach the point of exhaustion, you can also discuss what to do next.
So I decided to take a gamble on the last chance of "taking a detour to Vladivostok".
I don't know if we see people as too simple or too optimistic, but that's what we thought about at the time (Note 4)).
"Debaie, Bìstra (hurry up and move)!"
Compared with when they first left Fengtian Station, the attitude of the Soviet soldiers suddenly became rough.
The Japanese soldiers, who were carrying sorghum and soybeans on Soviet ships that crossed the river in the harbor, also had a darker and sad expression on their faces.
The Heilongjiang River flowing in front of us disturbs our crying faces reflected in the water and continues to flow eastward without hesitation.
The opposite side is the Soviet Union, and I will probably be over soon.
After crossing the river, no one knows what will happen next.
Looking back, hundreds of soldiers carried heavy sacks one after another.
This is like a poor soldier ant (Note (5)).
I will never forget.
Remember, as long as you live, you must never forget what happened on September 30, 1945, the 20th year of Showa.
Liu Changchun, the first Person in the Chinese Olympic Games, is the current emblem of Northeastern University in the upper left
Note (1): Looking through the information, the code word can not find a record of such an institution as Beiling University. However, at that time, the site of Northeast University was on Beiling Street in Huanggu District.
According to records, after the September 18 Incident, the Japanese army occupied Shenyang overnight, and Northeastern University became the first university to be destroyed during the Japanese invasion of China. The school building was occupied by the Japanese army, the equipment and books were lost, and all the teachers and students who did not want to be slaves of the country went into exile in Kannai.
In July 1932, then-president Zhang Xueliang donated 8,000 silver dollars to support Northeastern University students and the holder of the 100-meter national record Liu Changchun to participate in the 10th Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, USA. On July 30, Liu Changchun walked at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games with the Chinese national flag in his hand, becoming the only athlete in China to participate in the Olympic Games for the first time.
Note (2): These Japanese expatriates do not deserve any sympathy.
After the September 18 Incident, Japan invaded the three eastern provinces, and in order to occupy this black land for a long time, Japan imitated the practice in Korea and colonized the country to the northeast on a large scale.
In order to attract Japanese people to the three eastern provinces, the Japanese government made all kinds of attractive promises. In order to fulfill their promises, the Japanese occupation forces were heavily armed to help these immigrants from the country to seize land.
The land that the northeastern compatriots had only carved out after generations of fighting against the wind and frost was bought by these Japanese expatriates who suddenly appeared in front of them at a ridiculous price. If they dare to resist, they will be arrested by the Japanese army on various charges, most of them will be thrown into mines and other places to do coolies, and very few will survive until Japan surrenders.
However, this is not the end of the matter, the local compatriots in the northeast were forbidden by the Japanese occupation authorities to leave the local area, and the compatriots in the northeast who had lost the land on which they depended had to become tenants for the Japanese expatriates in order to prolong their lives. If you robbed your land, you still had to plant it for him, which was the real miserable life of the compatriots in northeast China at that time.
A female member of the Japanese Pioneer Regiment who took part in military training with a baby on her back
Most of these Japanese expatriates in the northeast belonged to the pioneer group, and in the name of pioneering, they were actually a paramilitary organization. Because the land lords forced Chinese farming, they were often gathered by the Kwantung Army for various military training in case of emergency, including Japanese women with milk dolls.
An important reason why the struggle of the Anti-Japanese Coalition is extremely arduous is the existence of these pioneering regiments. When the Japanese puppet army surrounded and suppressed the Anti-Japanese League, these pioneer regiment members were also issued weapons, and they were mainly responsible for monitoring and guarding the local Chinese who were concentrated in the area, and they were also responsible for the security of the pioneer regiment's garrison, and sometimes even directly participated in the search of mountains and the confrontation between the anti-coalition.
The pioneer group is mainly composed of japanese low-level people, and it is also some poor people in Japan. However, when they arrived in China, they became mighty and blessed, and the fox and tiger wei actively participated in Japanese colonial rule and committed many unforgivable sins.
After the war, the number of overseas Chinese in Japan reached more than 2 million, including as many as 1.6 million in the northeast, which is the number after the great increase in the number of troops in the Kwantung Army. The reason why the Kwantung Army was able to expand to 700,000 in a short period of time was precisely because the northeast had the largest number of Japanese expatriates in China.
Huludao Japanese overseas Chinese repatriation
On May 7, 1946, with the departure of two ships carrying 2489 Japanese overseas Chinese from Huludao Port, the "Great Repatriation of Million Japanese Prisoners of Overseas Chinese in Huludao" was officially launched. During the 232 days from May 7 to December 25, 1946, all 1017549 Japanese expatriates were repatriated. Traces of Japanese colonization in China since the Sino-Japanese War have finally been completely eliminated.
The Japanese were still very realistic, and at that time, Japan was in ruins after the defeat, so many Japanese women chose to stay in China and find an honest person to marry. Therefore, at that time, the Japanese occupation areas of the Kuomintang accepted the five sons of the big members to denko - tickets, strips, houses, cars, women among women, generally referring to Japanese women as concubines.
Nowadays, there are many people in the middle and northeast of Japan in Chinese, and there are historical and blood reasons.
The Soviet Union displayed captured Axis equipment
Note (3): This is not the material of the Kwantung Army, this is the material of China.
These supplies should have been taken over by the Chinese army, but because the Nationalist army collapsed in Yuxianggui, the British and Americans did not even greet the Republic of China government at the Yalta Conference, and the northeast was classified as Soviet territory. The Yalta Conference was another Paris Peace Conference, and China, the victorious power, was sold.
At that time, the industrial level of the Northeast under japanese colonial rule far exceeded that of other parts of China, and the industrial performance of the Northeast under the management of Japan was much better than that of the Golden Decade of the Republic of China (1927-1937) blown by the Net (many industrial products even exceeded the Japanese mainland). According to the Cambridge History of the Republic of China, the so-called industrial growth in the golden decade was not much better than in the Beiyang period.
Therefore, those who had to win the northeast at that time won the world.
Is China really right to be tolerant?
Note (4): The author complains because China was too good to Japanese prisoners of war and overseas Chinese after the war.
The Republic of China government could acquit even war criminals like Ninji Okamura, and also shielded Masanobu Tsuji, who caused the massacre of the Chinese in Singapore, and repatriated The Japanese diaspora in a short period of time. This makes the author feel very uncomfortable for these prisoners of war who are serving in the ice and snow of Siberia.
But now that the United States, which bombed Japan with two atomic bombs, has a favorable opinion among the Japanese, and China is disliked by 90% of the Japanese, should we reflect on how to get along with this neighbor with water?
The Iron-Blooded Prime Minister of Prussia , Bismarck
Note (5): Bismarck, the famous iron-blooded prime minister of Prussia, admired the discipline of ants, and he once said that he was willing to be a worker ant.
In order to expand the needs of the Japanese Empire, through militaristic education and barbaric barracks culture, the Japanese soldiers were turned into a murderous soldier ant, and now they were honestly carrying supplies like worker ants on the heilongjiang river.
This scene is really ironic.
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