The reform of Soviet prisoners of war by the Prisoner Management Office of the Political Department of the Far East Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army starts with their "stomachs" and arranges the lives of Soviet prisoners of war is one of the important tasks of the Soviet prisoner of war camps. From time to time, they added a Chinese meal or two to their recipes, which of course came from the hands of the "cooks" of the Soviet prisoner of war cadets who had taken classes in the art of Chinese cooking held in various Soviet prisoner of war camps. The lunch every weekend night became the most anticipated meal for every Soviet prisoner of war in the Soviet prisoner of war camps. How much of a charm did Chinese food have for these Soviet prisoners of war?

A New York Times correspondent in China reported: On Sunday morning, in the western suburbs of Ulan-Ude, the seat of China's newly established Baikal Provincial Government Chinese, I met a group of Soviet Russian prisoners of war playing soccer in the snow in the 89th Soviet prisoner of war camp of the Prisoner Management Office of the Political Department of the Far East Corps of the People's Liberation Army.

“hi！” I greeted a Russian prisoner of war who looked to be in his 30s and introduced myself, "I'm Williams, a reporter for the New York Times, how are you, friend, how are you doing here?" ”

The Russian prisoner of war glanced at me with squinted eyes, probably because I was an American journalist, and replied a little coldly, a little nonchalantly, "Very well." ”

"I am very interested in this war that took place between your fraternal countries of China and the Soviet Union, can you talk about your opinion on this war?" Unmoved by his coldness, I continued to ask.

"As you said, this is a matter between our two brothers in the Soviet Union and China, and it has nothing to do with you Americans. I'm not interested in your question at all! The Soviet prisoner of war said uncooperatively.

My profession dictates that I have to continue this interview. I avoided the sensitive topic of politics and smiled at him with a friendly smile, "You don't mind if I ask you about your life here, do you?" Like eating"

"It's definitely okay to eat, it's quite hearty, and you Americans can't think of it. I'm telling you, a brother is a brother, and even if two people fight, they're brothers, you know? You, US imperialism, don't want to take advantage of anything here. This very political Soviet prisoner of war interrupted me.

"Ha, ha," I said to myself, this time I chose the right topic that interested him, and it was not difficult to pry his mouth open, and I continued, "What is the concept of considerable abundance?" How abundant is it? ”

"When I say it, you don't understand, you can't eat it, do you know how delicious Chinese food is? Don't look at you as an American journalist, have you ever eaten crispy fish, roast beef with potatoes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, spicy tofu, stewed vermicelli with pork, diced spicy chicken, stewed sauerkraut, and dried tofu with sharp peppers? Smack, smack, smack, that's called a delicious. The Soviet prisoner of war said very contagiously while pouting, and he saw my Adam's apple rolling up and down due to swallowing saliva, and immediately said proudly: "Look at you like that, I must have never eaten it." If it weren't for the brothers of socialism, how could they have such treatment. If you look at the Chinese liquor, that's the real liquor. I don't think Khrushchev or your President Eisenhower drank it. It's amazing to drink. ”

"Force", this Soviet prisoner of war said an inexplicable word, and I asked him: "What does it mean to be powerful?" ”

This Soviet prisoner of war Niu Bu coaxed me and said dismissively: "This is Chinese, you don't understand." ”

"Damn, this era is really China's era, and even being a prisoner of war in China is so good." I cursed in my heart. "If you tell him that I am a reporter who lives in Yanjing, will he dare to talk to me?" Still, I suppressed my impulse.

Then the Soviet prisoner of war with a red face said again, "In the past two months since I came to the 89th Institute, the weight of more than 5,000 Soviet officers and soldiers has generally increased," he pointed to a young man on the court who was wearing only a half-sleeved T-shirt printed with the Chinese characters of the 89th Soviet Army Prisoner of War Internment Center and said, "Look at it, the kid who is carrying the ball now has gained ten kilograms in two months, and now he is shouting about losing weight every day."

I finally opened the chatterbox of this Soviet prisoner of war, who was a very talkative person, and took the initiative to tell me that his name was Strelnikov, and he was a captain in the post-Baikal Military District of the Soviet Union. The war between China and the Soviet Union was a matter of the above, and it had nothing to do with these soldiers. Here, the Chinese comrades treat them very well.

"All of us are here to work 40 hours a week, mainly to clean up the rubble left by the war and to help the people who lost their homes in the war to build temporary housing," he said. However, to do this work, the Chinese comrades pay us, of course, not wages, but labor allowances, which are used to purchase rolls that can be used to freely buy their favorite supplies, cigarettes, and alcohol at the service cooperative. ”

The Russian nation has a surname that does not admit defeat, and I noticed that when Captain Strelnikov was chatting with me, he tried to avoid the term prisoner of war, which brought him shame. The service agency he said was the Soviet prisoner of war service in the Soviet prisoner of war internment center of the Prisoner Management Office of the Political Department of the Far East Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. I've been there, and I've bought a photo of a mushroom cloud printed on the February 16 Soviet Union when it exploded on China, and on top of the mushroom cloud is printed in Chinese and English, a half-sleeved T-shirt made in China with the words "We call for peace," which is the most popular pattern in the world right now. This service is like a shopping mall, with everything from refrigerators and color televisions to electronic lighters. I doubt that these POWs will be able to afford these Chinese-made luxury goods that are all high-end in the United States. I think the significance of what China is doing is more out of a kind of propaganda. I put this question to Captain Strelnikov: "I saw that you said that there are refrigerators and color televisions in the service agency, can you afford them?" ”

"There are those who can afford it," said Captain Strelnikov with some jealousy, "and a Soviet technician at the Ulan-Ude airport bought a refrigerator the day before yesterday. ”

"Really!" I was a little curious and asked, "How did he get so many purchasing papers?" ”

"He helped the Chinese repair several MiG-19 fighters during the war." Captain Strelnikov said with a somewhat gloomy expression: "It is easier for technicians like them to make money. ”

"He just bought it, can he take it back?" I asked, "Can the Soviet political axe allow it?" ”

Captain Strelnikov had a very complicated expression on his face and asked me rhetorically: "Do you think that people like them can go back to the Soviet Union?" ”

Oh, yes! The vast majority of such engineers and technicians could not return to the USSR. Although China and the Soviet Union are both socialist countries, they are now two heavens of ice and fire, and China has policies that allow foreigners who have made special contributions to China to become Chinese nationals, and there are not many technicians in the United States who have given up their American nationality to work in China's Shannan Special Economic Zone. It is beyond reproach that people go to high places and water flows to low places.

I looked at the Soviet captain in front of me and said, "Can I ask you a very personal question?" After getting Strelnikov's approval, I said: "What are you going to buy for the daigou vouchers you get?" ”

"I only buy myself an electric shaver with a No. 1 battery, and if I can work here for another two months, I am also going to buy two bragi for my wife, so that my wife can dress up beautifully, which is always a pleasure for men." Strelnikov explained somewhat coyly.

At the end of this interview, Strelnikov let out a long sigh and said: "China and the Soviet Union still do not want to fight, the Soviet Union has fewer people, there are more Chinese, everyone belongs to the same socialist family, and it is not enough to adjust each other." Why do you have to fight you to death? I really don't know what these politicians think. In fact, the Chinese are good, when their captives, not only are they fed and clothed, but also give some money to buy so many things they like, which is really undreamable. ”

In the end, he said very naively: "How good it would be if the brothers of the Soviet Union and China could live in peace!" China has the technology, we have the resources, and when the two are combined, it will be invincible in the world. ”

There are more than 150 ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, and these ethnic minorities are almost all the populations of Tsarist Russia and the expansion of the Soviet Union, and the most concentrated and complex is the North Caucasus region in the south of the Soviet Union. In this Sino-Soviet war, the Chinese side captured nearly 300,000 Soviet prisoners of war of various ethnic minorities, and through short-term education and transformation, they were able to become fighters for the reading and liberation of their own nation, which was of extremely important strategic significance for the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

First, in response to the idea that "the Chinese are the aggressors" among the prisoners of war, China has expounded from history to reality how the Soviet Union has grown from a small European country to the present "superpower" across the Eurasian continent through various forms such as television, radio, reports, and forums, combined with the history of the Soviet Union's various ethnic minorities being annexed by Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. How did Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union plunder China's territory through all kinds of shameless means, and how did China endure humiliation and do its utmost to wage this war against the Soviet Union aimed at recovering part of the territory plundered by Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union when there was no hope of a peaceful settlement. The vast number of Soviet prisoners of war fully realized that trees have roots, water has sources, and this war has its historical roots. Otherwise, China would not have been able to launch this extremely restrained border war for no reason.

The second is that China's political axe and people resolutely support the people of the world in carrying out the movement of "the country needs to read and the nation wants to liberate". Resolutely oppose the exploitation and oppression of one nation by another. Guide the minority prisoners of war to use a large number of vivid facts from their own experience to expose all kinds of discrimination and oppression against ethnic minorities under the rule of the Soviet Union.

After the prisoners of war of the Soviet minorities were sent to various prisoner of war camps in China, through a series of education, they were able to link their personal grievances with the plundering and oppression of their entire nation by the Soviet Union, expose the various evils of the Soviet Union's dark rule and ethnic discrimination policy, truly recognize the greedy and selfish nature of the Great Russian nation in realizing the chauvinism of the great power chauvinism under the banner of the so-called proletarian revolution and proletarian internationalist obligations of the Soviet Union, and arouse their strong national indignation against the Russian nation. Awaken in their hearts the extinguished enthusiasm for national liberation, and raise their personal resentment against the Soviet Union to the general task of "the country must be able to read and the nation must be liberated."

The basic method used was to fully mobilize the prisoners of war of the national minorities to speak of the discrimination and injustices suffered by their own people, their families and themselves in the Soviet Union. Through self-education, driven by the arrangement of the members of the Soviet Union's [***] liberation front, first of all, those peripheral members came forward to speak and take the lead in exposing all kinds of discrimination and oppression against ethnic minorities by the Russian nation, and enlightening their national consciousness.

In the 19th camp for Soviet prisoners, a Chechen prisoner of war named Mekhmet used his own experience to tell how the people of his village were forcibly relocated from the Caucasus to the Siberian region by the NKVD, the secret police of the Soviet Union, which is now the KGB, and at the same time, he exposed the humiliation he was subjected to by Russian officers and soldiers while serving in the 21st Motorized Infantry Division of the Trans-Baikal Military District. "Soviet Russia and Belarus were originally small in population, and after the Second World War, there were even fewer men," he said. In this way, young people from ethnic minorities with smaller populations serve in the military. The year before last, during the conscription, the head of the Russian collective farm, Mashercheman, forced me to serve in the army without consulting myself and my parents. If we don't agree, we will withhold two months' food rations from our family. I was forced to go to the army. But when we arrived in the army, there were three Russian soldiers in our squad, and they were bullying us minority soldiers, especially new recruits like me. As soon as I arrived at the company, they snatched the new shirts and pants that were issued, and they didn't even let go of the footcloths, they snatched them away. I went to the company commander to reason, and the company commander said that when recruits enter the army, they must first learn to endure hardships and stand hard work, respect and obey veterans, even if these veterans are wrong, and so on. I didn't solve the problem of looking for the company commander, but went back and was beaten by these 3 Russian veterans. Then they forced me to wash their footcloths and pour water for them every day. Once, they insisted that I hadn't washed their footcloths, and even beat and scolded. I couldn't get angry, so I fought with them, and the three of them beat me all over the face with blood, causing me to break the bridge of my nose, but the company commander actually favored them and locked me up for three days."

"I am 22 years old, and for as long as I can remember, I have been subjected to Russian humiliation, and when I was 15 years old, I was herded to cold Siberia, like the Chechens in my village, where they demarcated an area for us, and the KGB-led security forces they established there did not allow us to leave the area they had assigned to us, and these security forces, which were mainly Russians, could search our Chechen homes at will and interrogate us at will." In order to leave the area, it is necessary to have a permit issued by the security forces.

The Soviets, having forcibly sent us Chechens to Siberia, forced us to set up a kibbutz and appointed as chairman of our kibbutz a Russian convict who had been exiled in the region in the early days, the supreme ruler and emperor of our farm, a scoundrel, pervert and scoundrel who rode on the head of us Chechens."

In the end, Mehmed said with emotion: "I have only truly enjoyed equality in the 19th Shelter in my life. China's captive comrades treat us equally, treat us Chechens equally, and do not discriminate against us ethnic minorities. I really don't want to go back to that dark place in Siberia. But when I think of those Chechen compatriots who are still living in dire straits, I want to go back, go back to fight against the Soviets who ruled and oppressed our Chechen people, to drive the Russians out of our homeland, and to build my homeland into a country like China.

I appeal to those comrades who share my ideals to take action and work together in this great Chechen national liberation movement and to build a country that truly belongs to us Chechens.

Through two months of brainwashing of Chinese socialist ideology and the inculcation of the national consciousness of "the country must read and the nation must be liberated," in various Soviet prisoner detention centers in the prisoner management office of the Far East Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, national elites of ethnic minorities such as Mehmed emerged one after another, transforming from Soviet prisoners of war into fearless fighters who consciously fought for the reading power and liberation of their own nation.

For these fighters of the Soviet minority who consciously made a revolution, all developed into the lower strata of the Soviet Liberation Front, a secret organization under the special service of the Chinese Far East. In the coming months, these members will be trained by the Far East Corps' Flying Leopards in personal combat skills such as abduction, kidnapping, assassination, interrogation, camouflage, communications, combat, and sneak attacks. At the same time, they were also trained in various guerrilla warfare, such as guerrilla warfare in the mountains, jungles, deserts, and cities, under the harsh conditions of the enemy-occupied areas.

They were also taught how to mobilize the masses, how to establish base areas, how to rebel among the officials of the Soviet army, and so on. Politically, ideologically, and organizationally, many preparations were made for the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

When these prisoners of war of various ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union are repatriated, it will be like the spark of national liberation that will surely ignite the fire of the reading power of each nation.

The Sino-Soviet war was bound to give rise to a national liberation movement of the ethnic minorities in the vast areas of the Soviet Union in Europe and at the junction of Europe and Eurasia. This is also in line with the basic law that war causes revolution.

(To be continued)