Immigrants as cannon fodder

Manchu Immigration Development Promotion Plan

Based on the above considerations, Japan has formulated? Manchu Immigration Development Promotion Plan? , began to colonize Manchuria.

First of all, the Japanese government designated the original land of local farmers as "no man's land" on the grounds of "the deterioration of bandits", and then forced them to move. After that, it will be forcibly acquired at the compensation price of 5 yuan per person (equivalent to RMB10.5 million now)? No man's land? .

When the plan was first introduced, the Japanese were not interested in colonizing Manchuria. Later, the Japanese government proposed that the members of the pioneering group should be exempted from all taxes and miscellaneous donations within ten years, and they should not be required to perform military service for life, which successfully attracted 270,000 people to explore agricultural land in Manchuria.

The Soviet Union sent troops to the northeast, and the vanguard group was abandoned.

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union launched the August storm and officially declared war on Japan. In order to resist the Red Army as much as possible, the Kwantung Army broke the promise of not having to perform military service at the beginning and forcibly recruited a large number of vanguard men to the front.

Many members of these vanguard groups became cannon fodder of the Kwantung Army, and 65438+ 1000 members died on the spot. Some members committed suicide because of their loyalty to the emperor, with a total death toll of 80 thousand.

1In August 945, Japan surrendered, and Japan and the Soviet Union temporarily signed an armistice agreement to facilitate Japan's evacuation of overseas Chinese.

About 15000 women and children of the pioneering group gathered in founder county, Heilongjiang, waiting for the Japanese government to send a boat to take them home. But they found that the local Kwantung Army had already fled, the port was blocked by the Soviet Union, and there was no boat to take them home.

They had to settle down on a mountain near founder county, hoping that the Japanese government would send someone to save them. Unfortunately, they waited for more than half a year, but there was still no rescue boat.

Disease, hunger and cold spread throughout the detention area, and more than 5 thousand people died in the wild. Only when I got here did I know a cruel fact: they were abandoned by the Japanese government.