In 2003, a Russian named Alyosha came to China. He is a mixed-race child, his father is Chinese and his mother is Russian. He was originally an aerospace expert at Russian Space Agency , but in order to come to China, he chose to retire.
After giving up his military rank, he finally came to China with his wife and children. So, why does this Russian named Alyosha have such a deep friendship with China? Why would he rather give up his military rank than come to China to settle down?
1. Unknown life experience
Alyosha's father is actually Liu Yunbin, the eldest son of Liu Shaoqi. Liu Yunbin was born in 1925. In 939, he and his sister Liu Aiqin went to study in the Soviet Union at that time.
After coming to the Soviet Union, Liu Yunbin and Liu Aiqin brothers and sisters began to study and live at the Moscow International Children's Hospital. In 1950, Liu Yunbin officially graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Moscow University.
During the period of studying in Moscow , Liu Yunbin adapted to the life of the Soviet Union. During this period, he fell in love with his college classmate Mara Fedotova and became a married woman. After marriage, the two people soon had children, and Alyosha was their son.
When Liu Yunbin graduated, New China had just been established, and everything in China was in a state of being in ruins. In the face of a shortage of talents, Liu Yunbin received a letter from his father Liu Shaoqi.
At this time, Liu Yunbin had just obtained an associate doctorate in nuclear physics from Moscow University. At that time, Liu Shaoqi told Liu Yunbin in the letter that the country needs international students to come back to serve, and as a father, he also hopes that his son will repay the motherland and the people with what he has learned.
However, this letter from my father was a dilemma for Liu Yunbin. From the heart, Liu Yunbin does not want to let down the people's training, he wants to do his part to the development of the motherland.
However, as a husband and father, Liu Yunbin cannot give up his family of four. So, after consultation and communication with his wife, he finally reached a consensus with his wife, and the two decided to live in their own country. The choice of
is derived from Liu Yunbin’s understanding of his wife. He knew that his wife was unwilling to live in a foreign country, so he allowed his wife and children to stay in the Soviet Union. Both the couple respected and understood each other's choice.
957, Liu Yunbin returned to his motherland. Just when he returned to China, a nuclear research institution had been established in China. Liu Yunbin, who returned to the embrace of the motherland, soon joined the development of the atomic bomb , and his wife and children remained in Moscow.
Liu Yunbin, who was separated from his wife and children, devoted all his energy to the development of atomic bombs for the country. When Liu Yunbin returned to China, his son Alyosha was only two years old.
Therefore, in Alyosha's impression, the image of his father is actually very vague. Some of the only impressions in are also pieced together through some photos, letters, and the narrative of his own mother.
In Alyosha's memory, his father always tells the trivial things in his daily life in letters. In addition, Liu Yunbin often exchanged his salary for rubles and and sent it to his wife and children far away in the Soviet Union to supplement the expenses.
In addition, Liu Yunbin will also ask his son and daughter about their study and growth in the letter. What impressed Alyosha the most was a sentence Liu Yunbin once said to him: Compared with personal achievements, being able to contribute to the country and the nation is the greatest sense of happiness.
However, Alyosha didn't really understand what his father said when he was a child. It was not until grew up that he realized that this sentence originally expressed his father's belief.
It was the words his father said that deeply remembered Alyosha, which affected his growth and choice. This was the root cause that prompted him to give up his military rank and settle in China.
2. The growing up Alyosha
960, Sino-Soviet relations began to deteriorate.In order to ease the relationship between the two countries, Liu Shaoqi made a special visit to the Soviet Union, and Alyosha also met his grandfather this year. At this time, Alyosha, born in 1955, was five years old.
Alyosha clearly remembered that one evening, a grand black sedan came to his doorstep. Then the mother told them to take them to meet an elder, and then the mother and son came to a house.
Here, the young Alyosha met an old man with a tall but gray hair. The mother told him that this is his grandfather. The old man was very happy to see Alyosha. He immediately hugged Alyosha in his arms and kissed him on the cheek.
In fact, as a grandfather, Liu Shaoqi prepared a lot of things for this meeting. He not only brought toys and candy to Alyosha, but also to his daughter-in-law's parents, and many gifts with Chinese characteristics .
This is the first time and the only time Alyosha met with his grandfather Liu Shaoqi. After this meeting, the relationship between the two countries became increasingly tense, and their ties with Liu Yunbin were also cut off due to the relationship between the two countries.
Alyosha, who lost the news of his father, could only understand his father's hometown by reading traditional Chinese books. is like this, and Alyosha, who grew up slowly, learned more and more about China, but he never had any connection with his father.
During the process of growing up, in order to protect Alyosha and his sister's safety, his mother hid the identity of his father Liu Yunbin. During school, whenever Alyosha filled in his identity information, he would always fill in his mother's information, and the column for his father was always blank.
In order to better hide his identity, Alyosha's mother also changed the names of the siblings and sisters, and went to many schools to cover up their real name and identity. Soon, Alyosha, who graduated from high school, was admitted to Moscow Aviation Institute with excellent grades in general.
Aerospace major was a popular major in the Soviet Union at that time, and Alyosha was also very interested in this industry, so he applied for this major. During the university, Alyosha, who had excellent grades, obtained two degrees in civil aviation and military aerospace.
It is precisely because of its excellent grades that Alyosha joined the Soviet Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1979. After working in , he participated in the launch of , the first human space research center that can live in for a long time, namely the space station Mir.
Alyosha performed very well in his subsequent work. Later, he became a senior engineer at the Soviet National Space Command Center, had the rank of lieutenant colonel, and became the leader of a team of more than 70 people.
3. Follow your heart and come to China
Alyosha has a very clear plan for his life. He plans to work in the Space Administration until he retires, and then enjoy his old age with his family. But in 998, an invitation from China changed his original plan.
On the 100th anniversary of Alyosha's grandfather Liu Shaoqi's birth in 1998, Alyosha's grandmother Wang Guangmei commissioned China to send him an invitation letter, hoping that Alyosha would participate in this important commemorative event.
However, since Alyosha's work unit belongs to a confidential department, he cannot go abroad. Therefore, he ended up missing the commemoration event. However, this incident made Alyosha have a very strong desire to explore the place where his ancestors lived.
Alyosha wanted to see what kind of place his ancestors lived in China, and at the same time he also wanted to visit his father's grave. As this idea became stronger and stronger, Alyosha finally couldn't bear it anymore and submitted an application to his department for his trip to China.
However, because Alyosha's application was not approved. When he learned that he could only retire in exchange for freedom, his strong desire to go to China prompted Alyosha to choose to retire early.
That's it, Alyosha gave up his military rank just to go to the hometown of his ancestors and see where his grandfather lived.However, Alyosha still couldn't go to China as soon as possible after retirement. According to regulations, he needs to retire for five years before he can go.
In the past five years, Alyosha was not just waiting quietly. He and his wife did their homework, and they learned about China through various aspects such as reading newspapers, watching TV, and reading books.
In addition, Alyosha also found a Chinese teacher in Moscow and began to study Chinese seriously. As we continue to understand Chinese things, time has quietly come to five years later. In 2003, Alyosha, who was full of expectations, finally set foot on China's land.
came to Alyosha, China and saw a beautiful and great modern country. The towering towering buildings and endless streams of vehicles are completely different from the China that Alyosha heard from his mother.
In fact, Alyosha's memory of China at that time was actually still in the impression of the 1960s and 1970s that his mother described to him, so he felt that the scene in front of him was completely different from what his mother described.
When Alyosha came to China, he met his grandmother Wang Guangmei as soon as possible. As soon as we met , Wang Guangmei gave Alyosha a hug. In this hug, he felt the warmth from his elders.
Conclusion
During the period of staying in China, Alyosha not only met many of his relatives, but also went to many cities in China. In the following years, he came to China more and more times.
Finally, Alyosha, who is increasingly aware of China, decided to settle in China. Among the many cities, he chose Guangzhou, Yangcheng, as the place where his family can settle down. He also named it "Liu Weining".
Now, Alyosha has lived in China for almost 20 years. According to Alyosha, in his heart, China and Russia are his motherland, Russia is his mother, China is his father, and both are homes no matter when and where.
