Side by Side: Foreign Volunteers in China’s Anti-Fascist Struggle

CGTN Europe

When the guns of fascism were aimed at the East, they stepped forward. They were pilots, doctors, journalists, and workers—people from across the world - who chose to stand with the Chinese people.   Their figures moved through the smoke of war, and their names were etched into China’s memory: Soviet Air Force volunteers, the Flying Tigers, John Rabe, Bernhard Sindberg, Norman Bethune, Dwarkanath Kotnis, Richard Frey, George Hatem, Hans Shippe. Looking back on history, we honor peace—and those who lit the light of hope in humanity’s darkest hour.  #WWII #history #JohnRabe #FlyingTigers

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00:00When the fascists turned their weapons eastward, countless lives were crushed without mercy.

00:13The soil ran red with blood, the sky raged with fire, until even human screams were swallowed

00:29by despair.

00:34The foreign faces from another land could have walked away, yet they chose to stay.

00:42Not for a single moment do I regret staying.

00:45Through my presence, countless lives were saved, yet the suffering I endured is truly

00:50beyond words.

00:51Looting, arson, rape, massacre have left all survivors permanently scarred with pain.

00:58And fear brought by the war.

01:02What occurred after Japanese forces occupied Nanjing on the 13th of December 1937 defies

01:08all human language.

01:10The footage you see represents but fragmented glimpses of these events.

01:14War has the power to bring out humanity's darkest nature in any nation.

01:20These images were not recorded to create hatred, but to cultivate the hope that all people,

01:26including the Japanese, might understand the true horror of the war, and employ every means

01:31to end the war forever.

01:34They faced the flames of war head-on, defending justice through resistance.

01:48They marched to the front lines, bringing hope through their protection.

02:05Peace was their choice.

02:06There were many who doubted that agreement could ever be reached by these fifty countries, differing

02:14so much in race and religion, language and culture.

02:21But these differences were all forgotten in one unshakable unity of determination, to find

02:29a way to end war.

02:59the peace of the nation.

03:02That was one of the most of the mostorable, a being against the last few years beyond the

03:07game of America.

03:08And we were just on the other side of the game.

03:10That was the one of the most famous people in God's history, and gave us all the good

03:12years.

03:13And we were just on the same page like the same page, and we were just on the other side of

03:16one of the many經ottoes.

03:18And that was a very funny, so.

03:20The next time was the one of the most famous people in the world, I was the most famous

03:23ones but the most famous people.

03:25So it's a very funny guy from the world.

03:26And we were all of the most famous people who were at our own music.

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