At the end of the Second World War, with the defeat of Germany outside Moscow, the German Panzer Corps began to lose. Then in 1945, Germany declared defeat and Hitler embarked on the road of escape. However, the fascist country Japan, which is an ally of Germany, is still rampant on our country's soil. In the end, the Soviet Union decided to send troops to help China drive away the Japanese. The main battlefield of the Soviet Union and Japan is in the northeast. The main opponent is the elite Japanese army Kwantung Army. It is reported that this Japanese army has been preparing for the invasion of China for eight years. Therefore, it has been entrenched in China for many years, and there is still no way to fight It's completely driven out.
However, after the Soviet Union entered the Northeast, Japan had realized that it was going to fail, and then began to make its own small calculations. At that time, the Japanese military advocated surrendering to the Soviet army, and then according to the Geneva Treaty, the Japanese army would be repatriated after a few years of service in the Soviet Union. After the Battle of Nominkan, the Japanese Kwantung Army surrendered to the Soviet army, but the final result was not as good as the Japanese army's wishes.
At that time, the Soviet army sent Japanese prisoners of war directly to the cold Siberia and the Far East. At that time, the food shortage broke out in the Soviet Union. As a result, these Japanese prisoners did not work as normal as imagined. Instead, they have to face the harsh natural environment, and food and clothing every day has become a problem. In addition, the Japanese prisoners at that time slept in tents every day, unable to withstand the cold weather.
Of course, not all Japanese prisoners of war need to work to dig potatoes. The prisoners of war who served as officers in the Japanese army can also enjoy the apples and vegetables sent by the logistics department, even 24 Hours of hot water and warm houses, the rest of the prisoners of war basically daily food needs to be strictly controlled. According to records, the daily food for Japanese prisoners of war was 3 to 4 kilograms of vegetables, and the rest was Soviet black bread, but these foods were not enough for Japanese prisoners of war who needed a lot of work every day.
In addition, the Soviet army repatriated the old, weak, sick, and disabled back to Japan. The remaining 600,000 elite soldiers were still working in Siberia. It was not until 1956 that these prisoners of war were repatriated. 500000. So bad