Just as the people on the list gathered in this large warehouse to listen to Captain Lalin's explanation, there were more than 800 war orphans. After they got off the plane, they were immediately taken to another warehouse by ground staff.
The civil affairs department of the Soviet Union attached great importance to these children. Although the plane was scheduled to arrive at around two o'clock in the morning, they arrived at Airport No. 5 on September 1st. Even under soldier conditions, the children had to be transported to a reliable area immediately.
Children will be taken in buses to the East, to the Ural region, and sent to children's schools there under unified management.
The Ural region is also one of the Soviet military areas. Almost all local men aged 0 to 8 have been recruited. The Soviet army is already raising the upper age limit for conscription.
The high-intensity war brought huge human losses. The mother cried and sent away her son who was drafted to the front line. Soon after, the local security police sent a letter with a sad look on his face, which was the death certificate of the fallen soldier.
A beloved son sacrificed his life for the country, and no amount of praise can heal the family's trauma. At this moment, the Soviet authorities deliberately allowed these heroic families to give priority to the adoption of war orphans, which appeased people's hearts and reduced the burden of civil administration.
Taking care of orphans is one of the obligations of a responsible big country. The Soviet Union has a more resolute attitude towards this. Under war conditions, as long as they are war orphans, the state will be responsible for everything the children need, even if the country is very difficult, and it can even provide a lot of
Good material help ensures that every child can live a healthy life.
They had enough to eat and a warm house, but all their family members were killed. The lingering trauma will probably take half a century to heal.
In a state of war, who can pay attention to children's emotions? The top priority is to take the children to a place of absolute safety.
The children lined up, wearing all kinds of clothes, and even some clothes were pieced together and remade from the clothes taken from the corpses of German soldiers. After a long flight and landing at night, everyone was in bad spirits.
The children experienced their first flight in their lives. They had no idea about the future. Standing at the airport, the howling north wind made them huddle and tremble.
Tula was much colder than Gomel. The children did not wear much clothing and their thin bodies made them less able to withstand the cold.
Dozens of young female civil affairs officers received these children, like herding a flock of lambs, and brought them into a warm warehouse.
From now on, more than 800 war orphans have been put under the full responsibility of relevant agencies. Both boys and girls have immediately put on uniform and brand-new clothes - the winter uniforms of Soviet primary schools.
Immediately afterwards, each person was given a piece of bread and a bowl of hot soup. They were divided into groups of about fifty according to age and were suddenly divided into nineteen classes.
According to the plan, all the children had to spend the night in the poor environment of the airport warehouse. After dawn, fifty passenger buses would drive to the airport, and the mighty convoy began its great journey targeting the Ural region.
Many people had to leave after dawn, but Yang Mingzhi received special orders. No matter how dark the night was, he had to leave quickly.
Soon, Captain Larin announced the fate of Periya Liuna, that is, the arrangement of Liu Hongxiu, the adopted daughter of Yang Mingzhi.
Of the many people on the list, Yang Mingzhi and Yang Tao naturally have Soviet citizenship because they became Belarusian citizens. The only special one here is Liu Hongxiu. She has always enjoyed a study visa in the Soviet Union. She is Chinese in every sense of the word.
In September 1944, as the Chinese ambassador to the Soviet Union and a group of staff all moved to Kuibyshev, there was no longer a Chinese in Moscow.
Kuibyshev served as the wartime capital, and Moscow became a super-large barracks on the front line of the war.
Moscow is always facing the danger of air strikes, and the only foreigners stranded here are probably foreign journalists and representatives of the liaison office.
It is said that Liu Hongxiu was miraculously rescued. The Soviet side notified the Chinese side in accordance with its diplomatic obligations, and that was all.
After all, in the long history, she is really just a small figure. In a world war that affects the entire earth, how significant is a child who is less than fifteen years old?
As an international student, the Soviet Union had the obligation to ensure her safety and ensure that she could complete her studies.
But this child is by no means an international student in the ordinary sense. She has a First Class Patriotic War Medal hanging on her chest. Because she served as a radar soldier and completed early warning meritorious services, there is no doubt about her honor.
The ideologies of the Soviet Union and Western countries are completely different. Stalin and his close comrades generally believed that Lenin's ideal must be realized. It was a great dream, and in order to realize it quickly, some extraordinary means must be used. Even if Stalin created a great power
chauvinism.
A large number of international schools were established with many considerations in mind, and the Soviet authorities were basically responsible for all the daily consumption of these international students.
When the war broke out, a large number of students in the Soviet Union joined the eastward movement, as did all international schools.
International schools in the western region have moved to the Ural Mountains one after another. Liu Hongxiu's experience in the past year is indeed legendary, but she has landed safely in Tula. In the future, she must go to the Urals to continue her studies in the new school, because that is who she is.
obligations.
Captain Larin's voice was loud. After the arrangements of everyone on the list were read out, he looked at his watch and saw that the time was only half past midnight.
The girl's face showed reluctance. She had been standing beside Yang Mingzhi instinctively. After hearing the arrangements for her, she couldn't help but grab Yang Mingzhi's hand.
She really knows where the Ural region is. Based on the captain's explanation just now, if she is in the Urals and her adoptive father is in Novosibirsk in the future, they will be two thousand kilometers apart!
She held Yang Mingzhi's hand tightly and raised her sad little head, "Father?"
"what happened to you..."
Liu Hongxiu's eyes were big, and her smile was very pleasant, and her sad look was pitiful. Yang Mingzhi looked at her eyes, and saw two lines of hot tears pouring out of those jewel-like eyes, turning into two lines of hot tears.
.
Yang Mingzhi could feel her sadness. Besides, who could be calm after parting with his comrades?
"My dear, don't cry."
This consolation only made the girl's sadness worse. At this moment, she had no scruples, threw herself directly on Yang Mingzhi, and started crying, her clothes wet with tears.
"Sister, don't be sad, this is our fate!" Star Tao tried to comfort the sad little bird, but she also had tears in the corners of her eyes.
Men always feel deeply when they are sad, and women are often the ones who cry bitterly.
The crying Liu Hongxiu aroused the emotions of many people. Lavrenti, Yevgeny and Balzen could not help but gather around Yang Mingzhi.
Seeing those people coming, Yang Mingzhi gently stroked the girl's shoulders and pushed her away, then half-knelt down. This scene really seemed like a father comforting his sad daughter. Haha, they are all Chinese after all.
From the perspective of others, their relationship is really too much like that of a father and daughter.
Yang Mingzhi opened his eyes wide and looked serious: "My dear, you are an international student no matter what, and your task is to study hard. When the war is over and you return with your studies, you must go back and serve China. Don't forget that you came to the Soviet Union
What is studying for?"
"But you saved my life. I will be in the Urals from now on, and I will study hard. Where will you be? I'm worried that we will never meet again!"
"No." Yang Mingzhi smiled and shook his head: "We will meet again, and you will get some of my stories in the future. I will have a greater future, and I will still ask about you in the future. If you are not
Study hard with peace of mind, I will be very angry. Listen, we are not saying goodbye forever, but because of work, I can't see you often."
After hearing what he said, Liu Hongxiu felt a little better.
"You are still young. Maybe when you grow up, I will still have the opportunity to be your teacher. What I will teach you then will be more advanced knowledge. Before that, you must graduate from the tenth grade with honors. Only then, guess what?
Only those who can understand and absorb more profound knowledge are qualified to be my students!"
"So, if I graduate from the tenth grade, would you recommend me to go to college? I...I want to learn more knowledge."
"This depends on your scores in the national unified examination. I have no right to recommend you to go to university."
Yang Mingzhi also smiled and rubbed Liu Hongxiu's little head. His words really baffled the girl.
"Father, what are you talking about? What is the Unified Examination? If I want to go to a university, I have to pass the entrance exam."
"Ah?" Suddenly, a strong sense of dissonance arose.
At this moment, Yang Mingzhi realized that the concept of college entrance examination did not exist in the Soviet Union in this era? Visual inspection should be yes. He tried his best to recall, and immediately thought of Natasha.
That was when he was a ninth-grade student before the war broke out, which was actually equivalent to his "sophomore year in high school" in terms of cognitive concepts. I had never heard Natasha say anything similar to the college entrance examination, only that she was qualified to go to college.
Exactly how she obtained this qualification was never explained.
But for Liu Hongxiu, she actually knows a lot about the details.
At this time, the Soviet Union implemented seven years of compulsory education, and students had to pay tuition for the next three school years. The reason why Natasha went to ninth grade and would work as an ordinary farm worker after non-compulsory education was precisely because
She studies well, and the farm collectively raises funds for her tuition. She is also very impressive and has always been the beneficiary of scholarships at Lechica Middle School.
An excellent person is excellent in many fields. If it were not for the war, once she completed the entrance examination of a certain university and was successfully admitted, the Soviet education department would reduce some tuition fees, and the farm collective would also crowdfund her tuition fees, and then
It's an old way of winning scholarships.
There is currently no unified college entrance examination in the Soviet Union. Students from the working class and peasant class have to complete ten academic years and either pass the entrance examination of the target university or enter through a special introduction.
However, for international students, there is almost no need for an entrance exam to go to university. After all, the status of foreigners who can go to university in the Soviet Union in this time and space is not ordinary.
Of course, Liu Hongxiu's identity is also very special. She is the child of a Chinese soldier. Now China and the Soviet Union are comrades in the trenches. Even so, she does not believe that the authorities will give her a green light. Besides, she has great ambitions in coming to the Soviet Union.
, obtaining admission qualifications through examinations is also a recognition of one's own value.
Only one problem bothered her - tuition fees.
Liu Hongxiu needs a promise: "Father, can you agree to my request?"
"Of course, as long as I can do it."
"You can learn more by going to college, but the tuition is a big problem. It should still be a huge sum of money. I don't believe that my biological father and his comrades can afford such a large amount of money, but you can
."
"It should!" Yang Mingzhi answered very readily, and then, the girl in front of him actually smiled.
Her smile had multiple meanings. It was natural for a father to pay his children's tuition. Yang Mingzhi continued: "I am your adopted father and you are my adopted daughter. Besides, we are of the same nation and have the same beliefs."
Liu Hongxiu and his father are his own people, and they must be the pillars of China in the future. Yang Mingzhi feels that it is his obligation to support him now.
If you just fulfill your obligations, you won't feel so at ease. Liu Hongxiu is eager to go to college in order to gain more knowledge. She studies hard for a greater goal - for the rejuvenation of China.
A brand-new China and her 500 million people have stood up. By then, only the Soviet Union will be willing to help China, which still has 60% of its people in the medieval era, to build the most basic industrial strength due to its own strategic considerations.
There will of course be a honeymoon period for both China and the Soviet Union in the future. At that time, the new China will send 15,000 international students to study in the Soviet Union. After completing their studies, they will return to the country, obey the distribution unconditionally, and go to the places where the country needs it most. Later, they will develop industries.
and comprehensively establish the backbone of the scientific research system.
Yang Mingzhi never knew that there was a child named Liu Hongxiu in history. Maybe it was just an accident of history that allowed this child who should have died in the war to survive. Maybe she survived the war and became a Chinese
A significant yet unknown screw in large-scale construction, just like the tens of millions of people of that era who passionately longed for national rejuvenation.
If you want to learn more advanced knowledge, you can only go to college, and tuition is a huge barrier.
Now Yang Mingzhi is very confident. He believes that Stalin urgently needs his knowledge to help the Soviet Union win the war, so it is natural for him to receive some reward in exchange.
Yang Mingzhi was not stupid. If he showed a little bit of snobbishness just because he was eager for wealth, Stalin would be very happy. Obviously, Yang Mingzhi was very clear about what Stalin was most worried about.
So isn’t it natural to get large sums of cash?
It is really easy to pay all the tuition for Liu Hongxiu.
But is that enough?
Liu Hongxiu's request directly touched the soft part of Yang Mingzhi's heart. It was not that he did not think about the days after the war ended.
Will it be possible for me to go to China at that time? Will Stalin let me go? Besides, is it best for me to go to China? What is my greatest value to China?
After asking himself, Yang Mingzhi finally understood that if a large number of Chinese students came to the Soviet Union in the future, then he could serve as a professor and teach them everything he knew, even some knowledge that was beyond the times, and he could also pay the tuition for his students out of his own pocket.
The major international trends in the future will not change, but who knows the small variables?
Here, Yang Mingzhi solemnly promised Liu Hongxiu: "You must study hard. I will be your relative in the Soviet Union. If you have any difficulties, please contact me."
"Yes!" The girl stood up straight, wiped her tears, and suddenly gave a standard military salute. After thinking for a while, she finally said in Russian: "Yes! Comrade Commander!" (To be continued)