As early as the previous life, Tang Ning had seen some reports on the Internet about the Soviet Union's mistreatment of Japanese prisoners of war, although he was sure that he could definitely do this kind of thing with the temper of Lao Maozi, but after all, there was no more convincing evidence, and this time there was an opportunity to ask in person, so Tang Ning found the father of a prisoner of war who had just returned to Tokyo under the Matsuda Group - Katajira, a veteran of the Kwantung Army, and inquired about it.

Perhaps it was the perennial prisoner of war career that made this old man over fifty years old still extremely sensitive, even if Tang Ning asked him to sit and answer, he sat up straight at all times, with a posture of being interrogated and confessed, until Tang Ning talked with him for a long time, his spirit gradually relaxed.

Through talking with him, Tang Ning found that what Lao Maozi did to the little Japanese was far more ruthless and even cruel than in the previous report, according to the account of the veteran of the Kwantung Army, because he was a personal guard of Shaozuo, so he followed a large number of officers in the same prisoner of war sequence, and the Japanese officers at that time, in order to ensure their quality of life, brought many good things, such as light wool pads, pillows, warm cotton clothes and cotton pants, novel color cameras, and even spices for making rice, etc., But what they didn't expect was that when they just arrived in Tambov City, Tambov Oblast, they found a lot of Soviet women standing at the gate of the railway station.

At first, they thought that this was the Soviet ladies welcoming them, because they heard that during the Second World War, due to the fierce war, there were many war widows in the Soviet Union, did they come to rob men?

Unfortunately, it turned out that they were thinking of something beautiful, because these women were there to rob them, and it was often two or three women who pounced on a man. Before they could react, they took everything off their bodies, and the Soviet GIs standing on the side didn't care at all, and even after they protested, no one paid attention, and if they shouted too loudly, they would be charged with a rifle butt. It wasn't until later that they learned that the GIs and the women were in the same group. It is inconvenient for the GIs to plunder the prisoners of war directly, but they can not stop these women, and then they secretly divide the spoils, and even have a leg between them at all

However, even so, they were much luckier than the other prisoners of war later, it is said that a company was ordered to receive 150 prisoners of war, and the company made preparations for 150 people, and even the food prepared in the house was only 150, but in the end 500 prisoners of war came. At that time, the Soviet company commander dealt with it; The first 150 prisoners of war were seated in place. Then the rest of the prisoners were taken to the edge of the woods, and a burst of machine guns swept them all to Elysium. And the 150 prisoners of war for the rest of their lives were all frightened.

Kado Jira also recalled: "At that time, we were doing logging and laying sleepers, but we ate gruel with the lid of a lunch box. And every month we have a routine physical check-up, we line up in four rows, stripped naked in the summer, and shivering in the winter. A serious-looking Soviet female military doctor examined us. The method is to pull up the skin from each person's thighs. We were skinny and skinny, and our skin was as thick as sandpaper. Depending on the thickness of the meat. We are divided into several and so on. Everyone secretly prayed that they would be made to the lowest level, so that they could do lighter work and live one more day. The thickest flesh is classified as first-class, and they may be a little relieved by the skinny companions, but the thought of the heaviest work that awaits them is the heaviest work. The pride is mixed with sorrow. ”

In fact, Kado Jira's experience was not the worst, according to later records, many Japanese prisoners of war were assigned to work as coolies in the mines, and their lives were miserable. In the cold Siberian regions they could only wear thin coats, and there was no shelter on the mine, there was no kitchen. There were no toilets, so they had to build them themselves. Of course, this is not the most fatal, the most terrible thing is in Siberia at nightfall, the temperature is suddenly about to dozens of degrees below zero, the cold wind is blowing, many people fall asleep and die, and the next morning they all become "popsicles". In this way, more than 55,000 people were recorded to die of freezing in one winter.

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union captured 600,000 Japanese prisoners of war and sent them all to Siberia as coolies, while the Soviet Union finally returned only 400,000 Japanese prisoners of war, and the 200,000 prisoners of war were buried forever on Siberian soil.

The Japanese do not dare to mention the issue of the 200,000 dead prisoners of war, and the 400,000 Japanese prisoners of war who returned have spread the horrific practices of the Soviets throughout the Japanese nation.

And the Nationalist Government of Chiang Gong gave 2.14 million Japanese prisoners of war good food and drink to hospitality, with a tolerant heart in China, hoping to influence the small Japanese beasts, and Premier Zhou announced in 1972 that the Japanese would be exempted from 380 billion US dollars in war reparations [380 billion US dollars in 1972!] ], but little Japan has never looked at China squarely, let alone grateful, and regards the forgiveness of the Chinese as weakness, so it has to be ruthless against the Japanese, and if he is afraid, he will be honest, and the American GIs have been ruining Japan for so many years, and the Japanese have not treated people as uncles.

According to later published information, Japanese prisoners of war not only worked in the industrial and mining enterprises of the USSR, but also made their own contribution to the construction of a number of cities in the USSR. For example, in the city of Komsomolsk on the Amur River, 39,400 Japanese prisoners of war participated in the construction of the city. In Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, Japanese prisoners of war lived in makeshift shacks at the intersection of Panfilov Street and Arechnaya Street, and they built not only residential buildings for Almaty, but also the building of the Academy of Sciences, the House of Scientists, the building of the former Kazakh Ministry of Internal Affairs, the old airport, in addition to the Almaty Heavy Machine Building and the Tram Yard. All these works and buildings are still dressed up in Almaty to this day.

The reluctance of the Soviet authorities to return the Japanese prisoners of war was partly due to a lack of labor, and partly because the Japanese prisoners of war worked very hard. Petrovich. Sviridov's assessment: "Japanese prisoners of war worked in peat mines, worked very hard, and were never lazy. Zhirnov, a Russian observer who has studied many archival materials on the issue of Japanese prisoners of war, also pointed out that the Japanese prisoners of war worked diligently, conscientiously, and were highly organized, and that "the work efficiency of Japanese prisoners of war was much better than that of Soviet workers and Soviet prisoners, so for a long time the Soviet Union was reluctant to release these Japanese prisoners of war and return home." (To be continued......)