Picture exhibited on the Photo Exhibition

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- It is the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. The Chongqing Museum of Famous Historical Celebrities holds the Fight For Peace – Foreigners in Chongqing during Anti-Japanese War Photo Exhibition, in which about 140 old and precious photos are on display to tell the stories of foreigners making remarkable contributions for China’s resistance against Japanese aggression.

For example, Stilwell, Chenault, John Service and Theodore White from the United States are notable figures. Some of them were generals fighting in the front line; some were journalists making the Chinese people’s yearning for peace be heard and some were diplomatists fighting in a totally different battlefront for Chinese people. Chuikov and Kulishenko from the former Soviet Union also came to Chongqing to help Chinese people.

Verda Majo, the anti-war fighter, came to China in 1931 to reveal the brutal aggression of Japan to the world with her beautiful voice. James Endicott from Canada and Kim Koo from South Korea also helped China.

With respect to these nine foreign friends, Kulishenko stayed in Chongqing forever.

Kulishenko was born in Ukraine in 1903. He was an air squadron commander of the former Soviet Union. In 1939, he was dispatched by the government to help China with two bomber groups and ultimately he sacrificed his young life for that. Now, his tomb is in Xishan Park, Wanzhou District, Chongqing. (Translated by Xu Mengmiao, Fathom Language Limited)