Chapter 277: Prisoner of War Rehabilitation

According to the Far East Special Committee's "Bear Hunt" prisoner management and transformation plan, the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the political departments of the Shenyang Military Region, the Yanjing Military Region, the Lanzhou Military Region, the Jinan Military Region, and the various production and construction corps sent strong personnel to organize and lead the leadership of these Soviet prisoners of war, responsible for the management and transformation of these Soviet prisoners of war. Soviet prisoners of war were quickly transferred to relatively safe places and handed over to various Soviet prisoner prisoner camps in the Prisoner Management Office of the Political Department of the Far East Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Professionally managed by them.

At the same time, the Far East Special Commissar also sent a large number of members of the Soviet [***] Liberation Front led by Comrade Huapinovsky, the former political commissar of the Red Banner Military District of the Far East of the Soviet Union, to participate in the management of prisoners of war.

The Soviet Liberation Front was a secret organization established under the instruction of the Far East Special Service headed by Deng Feng, and the members of these organizations were all officers of the former Soviet Far East Red Banner Military Region. But whether it is recommended or arranged, the members of this organization have to carry out an absolutely necessary procedure, that is, to confess the confidential information they know about the Soviet Union and at least one member of the main battle faction, and the fate of the main war members who have been reported by them will certainly not be better.

The advantage they get from doing so is that they can secretly fulfill the fulfillment of the aliens who renounced their Soviet citizenship in order to make a special contribution to China to become Chinese nationality, and then secretly serve China, and the Chinese Far East Special Service guarantees that their treatment is not lower than that of the Soviet army, and their children can choose to study at universities in China or abroad, at the expense of the Chinese side.

China also adopted a different management method for Soviet prisoners of war. With the exception of officers and colonels, prisoners of war below the rank of lieutenant were not managed according to their original ranks, branches of the Soviet Army, and the places where they were captured, but the prisoners of war captured from various battlefields were divided into management units according to the various nationalities of the Soviet Union, and centralized management was carried out. As a result of the complete disruption of the original establishment and branches of the Soviet army, a large number of members of the Soviet [***] liberation front and peripheral personnel of this organization were arranged in the prisoners of war of these Soviet prisoner-of-war camps in various Soviet prisoner-of-war camps for Kazakhs, Soviet Estonian prisoners, and Soviet Lithuanian prisoners. These men will assist the Prisoner Management Office of the Political Department of the Chinese Far East Corps in managing the Soviet prisoners of war in the various Soviet prisoner-of-war camps, so that they can become part of their own national liberation movements after they are repatriated to the Soviet republics. These members of the Soviet Liberation Front will also be repatriated to the republics of the Soviet Union with these prisoners of war to organize and lead their own national liberation movements.

The purpose of centralizing the management of prisoners of war with the various nationalities of the Soviet Union as prisoner management units is self-evident. However, China's management move won the support of the vast number of ethnic minority prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. The Chinese prisoners said that the reason for doing so was to better take care of the eating habits and lifestyles of the prisoners of war of various nationalities, and to carry out such a management method of being rich in surnames, so as to reduce the racial discrimination of the Russian prisoners of war against the prisoners of war of their ethnic minorities and the friction between the prisoners of war of various nationalities.

This also gave these Soviet minority prisoners of war a sense of closeness to each other. And life is really a lot more convenient. They deeply felt that the Chinese comrades had done their work in too much detail and thought too thoroughly.

The Prisoner Management Office of the Political Department of the Far East Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army also provided better living conditions for these prisoners of war as much as possible, and the Soviet prisoner of war internment centers implemented the "three guarantees" for these Soviet prisoners of war that demonstrated the humanitarianism of the Chinese People's Liberation Army revolution: First, to ensure that the personality of the Soviet prisoners of war was not insulted, and they were not beaten or scolded; The second is to ensure that the prisoners of war have better living conditions, and the material supply is slightly lower than the supply and living standard of our soldiers, and the material supply for officers at the colonel level is equivalent to the living standard of our army at the regimental level; The third is to ensure the health of these prisoners of war, save the lives of the wounded, and treat the sick and save lives.

The purpose of this is certainly not to raise the uncle, but to show these Soviet prisoners of war that the Chinese People's Liberation Army is a mighty division on the battlefield, a benevolent and righteous division on the battlefield, and China's superior material living conditions. Spiritually influence them and tempt them materially, so that they will have a sense of identity with China's socialist road and a yearning for China's life.

China has extensive experience in managing foreign prisoners of war, and Soviet prisoners of war are different from American prisoners of war. The management of Soviet prisoners of war was much simpler and easier to manage than that of American and British prisoners of war. First of all, the managing side and the managed side are both from socialist countries, and although there are differences in social systems, they are generally similar and not too different, and they all have a common background and values of political beliefs. As far as the ideological unity is concerned, everyone is a revolutionary comrade.

Under a centralized system, people's surnames are greatly suppressed, and human rights are also human rights under the condition of satisfying the "organizational" discipline, in which the ruling authorities instill in every member of society the most is obedience, obedience, and obedience! Everything must be subject to organizational arrangements and the party's commands. Therefore, under the same social system, it is easy for managers and the governed to communicate and understand each other. It is not like the "uneducated" prisoners of war who grew up under the capitalist system in the United States and Britain, with so many things and so high requirements.

Due to the relatively backward light industry and agriculture in the Soviet Union, coupled with the huge number of troops, the supply of troops has not been very good, clothing, food, and housing in general, they can eat enough in peacetime, but they are not good at eating, the food of Soviet soldiers usually includes cabbage soup and boiled buckwheat soup, the daily food standard is, 750 grams of black flour leba, 20 grams of raw mutton fat, or margarine, 40 grams of buckwheat rice or barley rice, and the non-staple food is: potatoes: 35 grams, beets: 20 grams, shallots: 3 grams or dried coriander, celery, root vegetables: 2 grams, if possible, Can be replaced with 100 grams of fresh vegetables. You can eat 50 grams of canned horse meat or smoked fish once every two or three days.

The Soviet army was poorly dressed, and many soldiers wore hollow jackets and cotton pants in winter, without even shirts and underpants. There are no cotton socks, just a few foot cloths, half-waisted boots with thick canvas surface. A cashmere military hat and a tweed coat that looked like a sack sheet. Some people say that Lao Maozi is frost-resistant, that's really a joke, minus twenty or thirty degrees, sometimes minus 40 degrees, everyone is cold when they are frozen, what can they do if they don't resist freezing. It should be said that the Soviet army is still relatively hard-working and has a tenacious ability to survive, and generally speaking, the Soviet soldiers do not have high requirements for life.

The Soviet prisoners of war, especially the Russian national prisoners of war, had a relatively strong nationalist sentiment towards Great Russia, and some Soviet prisoners of war believed that "they had defeated Germany in the past and are now one of the world's leading military powers, and they were somewhat unwilling to accept this defeat." It is believed that China has forgotten that it was the Soviet Red Army that liberated the Chinese from the hands of Yueben. The Chinese are ungrateful aggressors, and their actions are to perform the function of a soldier to defend the country, and to resist the Chinese invaders.

But this did not affect their envy of the equipment and material supplies of Chinese soldiers. Especially in the cold and icy field conditions, I saw that the Chinese soldiers could eat good taste, short heating time, high quality, and heat to meet the needs of high-intensity wartime, not affected by the climate, without open flame heating, and only about 100 ml of water without purification can be turned into steaming 570 grams of individual self-heating field food that can be eaten by 2-3 people. They kept shaking and swallowing their saliva in their throats.

Many Soviet soldiers who were captured and saw the soldiers or militiamen of the squadron who were guarding them in the field took out this kind of self-heating field food, grabbed two handfuls of snow, flipped it every 2-3 minutes, and ate a steaming, fragrant meal in 4-5 minutes, which stunned them, they had never seen such a good, humanized high-tech field food. And after these Chinese finish eating, put the heating treasure into the thermal insulation paper bucket, you can make two hot treasures to warm up, hold them in your hands and warm your hands. Many Soviet prisoners of war who were frozen to death also got this kind of "Chinese individual self-heating field food warmer" that can continuously release heat for 3 hours just by folding the mouth of the thermal insulation paper bucket with the heating treasure.

The same is a soldier, the same is a soldier in a socialist country. But why is there such a big difference between being a soldier and being a soldier? Almost all of the Soviet prisoners of war who participated in field battles had the experience of not being able to eat heated food for several days, and all of them suffered frostbite to varying degrees. Finally, not to mention eating heated food, it is already a great luxury to be able to get food. A few days after the start of the war, the entire material supply was intermittent and abnormal, sometimes a 1,000-gram black flour leba would take 2-3 days. It's right to be patriotic, but patriotism can't be eaten as bread, who loves yourself? Chinese soldiers love the country, but the country also loves them, look at the food, clothing and clothing of these Chinese soldiers. How can such an army not be combat-ready. This is the difference between the two countries and the two armies, and this difference shocked the Soviet prisoners of war from the heart. I wavered from the teachings of my superiors.

In the various Soviet prisoner camps, there are no barbed wire, no wolf dogs, no pillboxes, except for two guards standing guard at the gate of the prisoner of war camp, there are no large numbers of military police with loaded guns to patrol and monitor everywhere, but still don't think about escaping, because the cameras around will detect this "bad behavior" in a timely and accurate manner.

In the camp for Soviet prisoners, some rules and regulations are perfect. Each prisoner management company is a catering unit, and the prisoners in the company run their own canteens. The captives themselves elected a "food management committee", which elected their own cooks and managed the food themselves. In order to take care of the living habits of the captives, bread ovens were specially brought from China; Soviet prisoners of war who professed Islam were supplied with beef and mutton. The standard food for the captives was 750 grams of food per person per day, 50 grams of white flour, corn, rice, cooking oil, 100 grams of meat, 100 grams of fish, 50 grams of eggs, and 25 grams of sugar. 500 grams of vegetables and 150 grams of fruits.

The standard of quilting is: 1 set of brand new blue cotton clothes, cotton pants, cotton hats, large rubber soles cotton shoes, cotton gloves, and 1 gray cotton coat per person in winter; 1 cotton futon and 1 acrylic blanket per person. 2 shirts, 3 pairs of nylon and cotton blend socks, towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, and other daily necessities. There is alcohol, except for the New Year's holidays, and usually I have to go to the service club in the prisoner camp to buy it.

The vast majority of people are realistic. These prisoners of war saw that their material supplies were far better than those of the Soviet army, and their living conditions in the prisoner of war camps were much better than those in the Soviet army. The vast majority of people "live and work in peace". I'm sorry for a few diehards, so I'll send them to the special training and teaching team of the prisoner shelter to receive a special education. At most, a few cases of injuries that have been overly injured and ineffective. Grace and power are equally important, no one has a good say, but it's not comfortable to find anything else.

The prisoners of war have a similar schedule here and the barracks, leaving at 5 o'clock in the morning, tidying up the housekeeping at 7 o'clock, working and exercising at 8 o'clock after breakfast, resting at 11:30, continuing labor and training at 13:30, (sometimes arranging study and discussion as needed) ending the labor exercise at 17:30, and at 18:30 after dinner, the work performance of the day is evaluated and the work score is evaluated. I watched TV at 7:30 p.m. and went to bed at 10:00 p.m.

Therefore, the vast majority of Soviet prisoners of war felt the same as in their own barracks, and in many ways better than in the barracks of the Soviet army. The difference is that his superiors above the company level have been replaced by Chinese comrades. However, these Chinese prisoners were much better than the original Russian governors, and they were also much more surnamed. In this way, the Chinese prisoner of war management personnel and the Soviet army, these managed prisoners of war, got along happily, and there was really a comrade and brotherly atmosphere.

Each prisoner platoon has a television, every day from 19:30 to 21:30, the prisoner platoon organizes Soviet prisoners of war to watch TV programs, the content of the program is, the news broadcast every other day, the historical documentary of the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition Powers since the Opium War, of course, the focus is on the history of Tsarist Russia's aggression against China; a feature film on the history of the various ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union and a documentary on the friendly exchanges between the various ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union and China; Documentaries on the achievements of the construction of the People's Republic of China, the World Expo, and China's hydrogen bomb tests, as well as theatrical programs about China and these ethnic minorities

(To be continued)