On 2 September, ahead of the anniversary of the end of World War II, China honoured the memory of Soviet soldiers who had perished in the battles against the Japanese militarists.
SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming took part in the opening of the photography exhibition “The Far Eastern finale. The end of the Second World War,” organised by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in China jointly with the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of Russia. The photographs, posters, and copies of original documents on display reflect the history of the Soviet forces liberating north-eastern China from the Japanese aggressors and routing the bulk of the Japanese Kwantung army.
The photographs are on display at the Jintai Art Museum in Beijing’s Chaoyang Park.
The participants in the opening ceremony also laid flowers to the Soviet Falcon statue in the gallery, dedicated to the Soviet volunteer pilots who took part in the Chinese people’s national liberation war against the Japanese invaders in 1937-1941. A total of 2,500 pilots and technicians who volunteered to help the Chinese people in their fight for freedom and independence arrived to China from the USSR in those years. Over 200 of them lost their lives on the battlefield.
