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Galia Vasilievna Dubeyeva was born on February 18, 1928, in the border city of Suifenhe in China's Heilongjiang Province. Her father, Zhang Huanxin, was a Chinese, simple peasant from Shandong province, a "runner" in his early years. Her mother, Fene, a Ukrainian, took her husband's name after marriage according to Russian custom, and was called Zhang Fiyogra, who was of White Russian descent. So, Galia is a mixed-race girl.
Galia early childhood and adolescence is in the warmth of family love and care spent, in June 1941, and classmates Lida *** with the Russian expatriates concert Golden Lily singer award, sang the song {White Prickly Plum Blossom} was awarded the first prize. 1942 December, she was 14 years old, graduated from the Suifenhe Lucia Russian Joe School, January 10, 1943, stayed in the school agent! music and Japanese classes, returning home after two weeks to help her father with his business. She had a formal education and lived in a multi-ethnic community with Japanese neighbors, so she learned the three languages with ease.
Galia 1.70 meters or so of stature, eyebrows, dignified, beautiful, when 17 years old beans crown years, but fate has put her on the battlefield of the war, at 00:10 on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union, more than 1.5 million troops from the east, north and west, in the east, north and west, in the more than 4,000 kilometers of the battle line across the Sino-Soviet, China-Mongolian border, the Japanese Kwantung Army launched a surprise attack. The city of Suifenhe was captured by the Soviet army, but the Japanese troops inside the Tianshan Fortress were still resisting. Inside this fortress there are 450 Japanese troops led by Ishijima Nagayoshi, and also 150 Japanese people led by Jia Baptist Mill Street Chief, the Soviet Army has failed to attack several times and suffered a lot of casualties.
Japanese women and children in the fortress faced the fate of dying with the Japanese army, the Soviet army could not bear the civilian casualties in the war, before launching an attack on the Tien Shan Fortress, decided to find a person who knew Japanese to go forward to persuade the Japanese army to save the lives of the women and children in the fortress, surrendered their weapons. At that time, at the registration office of the Red Army of the Soviet Union, a person in charge asked the people present: "Who speaks both Japanese and Russian? I don't know who answered in Russian: "Galia Dubeyeva speaks Japanese." Suifenhe was a small town with a population of a few thousand people, and Galia stood out so much that many people recognized her, and all eyes were on her. After talking to the Soviets, Galia came up to her mother and calmly said, "Mother, the Red Army officers asked me to be an interpreter and go up the mountain with them to persuade the Japanese to surrender." When Galia's mother disagreed, Galia calmly said, "It doesn't matter, there are still my Japanese classmates inside the fortress." According to later evidence, some of the Japanese children in the fort were indeed friends of Galia.
Galia's mother took the flower headscarf off her head and put it on her beloved daughter's head, and looked at her daughter as she walked toward Tianchang Mountain. And this go, kind and brave Galia never came back. From then on, Ga Liya into the hearts of Suifenhe people, into the legend, into the eternal, into the history.
She accompanied four Soviet soldiers on the shelling of the Tianchangshan Fortress battlefield, deep into the tiger's den, to complete the mission to persuade the surrender.
According to legend, Galia had gone up to Tianchang Mountain three times, and on the second trip, the Japanese officer said he would give some more time to prepare and promised to lay down his arms and surrender at 3 pm. The third time to go up, the Japanese suddenly opened fire, will go with the Soviet troops killed, Galia was dragged into the cave. The scene of the situation no one saw, can only become a stay in people's minds lingering mystery.
The Soviets at the bottom of the mountain waited for a night and saw no one come down, knowing that something bad had happened, so they ordered an artillery bombardment.
August 15, 1945, the Japanese army at the Tianchang Mountain fortress surrendered, with only 26 soldiers remaining. After the battle, Galia was still not seen coming back and there was no news. People only found Galia's red scarf on the mountain, but never found anyone. At that time, the artillery fire told a lot of corpses blowing up, go so quietly, have gone so loudly.
After the war, 26 Japanese troops who surrendered at the Tianchangshan Fortress were repatriated. Soviet troops also withdrew soon after. No one testified about Galia. In those days, how could anyone care about a civilian who died under fire ah, Galia's death became a mystery, and even less people posthumously recognized her as a martyr. In Suifenhe local generalization and a brief history of only "Zhang Huanxin's mixed-race girl three times on Tianchang Mountain to persuade the surrender of" a sentence, there is no specific account, all the historical archives are not.
Today, Ga Liya left on earth only one of her 15-year-old and his eldest brother Zhang Guolie photo taken in 1943, the photo of Ga Liya beautiful, quiet, calm, subtle, who saw will be admired, Zhang Guolie first gave this photo to his friend Misurin, Ga Liya sacrificed, Misurin to find the flat and sent back to the hands of the mother of the Ga Liya, and she has been with her.
A Soviet officer named Fedorchenko was awarded a Red Star for this persuasive action. After more than three decades of reticence, he has twice told Galia's story on a television program and argued that the medal should have belonged to Galia. After 60 years, Galia returned to Suifenhe, Suifenhe city people commemorate the "Messenger of Peace" Galia, prepared to build a park named after him, in Galia Park, 33 Soviet Red Army soldiers planted Galia favorite birch, Chinese anti-Japanese veterans planted Galia favorite spruce, birch and spruce, some people will be the combination of Chinese characters "lip" and "spruce". The combination of the birch and spruce into the Chinese character "lip" ------- implies that the people of China and Russia are closely linked by their lips and teeth.
October 8, 1945, this for the liberation of Suifenhe and sacrificed his life at the age of 17 years old Russian-Chinese girl, now incarnated into the "friendship and peace angel" sculpture stands in Suifenhe Peace Square. Chinese and Russian people together in the new Galia statue in front of flowers, the Soviet old Red Army said: "She will always show the people's prayers and expectations of friendship and peace"
In front of the just completed Galia statue, from the Russian Far East Railway retired workers formed a small choir dedicated to the war of the two songs written by the { Crane} and {Katyusha}. "We dedicate these two songs to the forever 17-year-old Galia"
Galia's bronze statue design initial sample, has been designed by the world-renowned Russian Leben Academy of Fine Arts completed. From the sculpture drawings, Galia walk firmly, waving her mother left her flower headscarf in her hands, looking back at home - this is a solidified history, beautiful and brave Galia will always stand in her beloved hometown.
In the Year of Sino-Russian National Friendship, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote a letter in his own handwriting, saying, "Thank you for this good initiative in Suifenhe," and suggesting that the monument be engraved with the words, "Russian-Chinese friendship is about mutual understanding and trust. We will remember the past and look to the future."