Chapter 107 Respectable and Lovely Soviet Women

From my contact with women in many countries in my life, I deeply feel that only Soviet women who have the great and lofty ideal of communism and bravely and optimistically strive for the construction of a new society for life are the ideals of new Chinese women. Shining example. At the World Conference on Mothers in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1955, I saw an extremely lovely white-haired, kind and quiet mother in the Soviet delegation. Someone told me that this was Liubav Kosmodemyanskaya. How dear this great name is to mothers in China and all over the world! Who has read her thrilling Zoya and Shula without simultaneously arousing, in tears, the most sublime maternal feelings and intellects?She is not like an ordinary mother after the war, who only knows how to mourn her children, fear the war, and spend her old age in grief, weeping, loneliness and despair.The Soviet mothers represented by Kosmodemyanskaya are optimistic and courageous. They expand their motherly love to embrace children all over the world. They know that in the camp of socialist countries with peace as their foreign policy With growing strength, the future of mankind is not hopeless, and war is not inevitable. As long as mothers all over the world stand up firmly in an organized way and resist the evil conspiracy of the new war makers, their children can be saved.The strong confidence of Soviet women has inspired mothers all over the world, making them feel that in the cause of defending peace, standing with Soviet women is the strongest guarantee.

During the Asian-African Solidarity Conference held in Cairo in the winter of 1957 and the Asian-African Writers Conference held in Tashkent in the autumn of 1958, I met twice with the outstanding Soviet Uzbek poetess Zulipia.This gentle and elegant poet is a fierce fighter for peace. With a vivid and powerful pen, she sang the love and desire of the Soviet people for peace.In Tashkent, I will also meet the famous female dancer Hanon, who has visited China and has endless love for China.I will never forget the feast of hospitality that night at the house of the poet Gurham.Ms. Hanon gave us the most wonderful folk dance and sang several songs of the People's Liberation Army that she had learned in China.She held our hands tightly and danced with us to my heart's content. In a pair of passionate eyes, the radiance of friendship radiated.

In Fergana, we were warmly received by Alemova Hareda, Deputy Chairman of the Uzbek Supreme Soviet.This capable and lively young chairman hit us off right away. She led us to visit the textile factory and the orphanage, and introduced us the history and construction experience of the city in detail. Leave the unbreakable friendship between China and the Soviet Union, and the common cause of defending peace.Her attitude is so kind, so sincere, and so optimistic, which filled our hearts with enthusiasm, confidence and courage. If I were to describe all the women who impressed me deeply in the farms, factories, schools, and nurseries I met in the Soviet Union, it would be absolutely impossible in this short space, and I would also It is not necessary, because Soviet women's unremitting efforts to build a new society and defend world peace, as well as the friendship and comradely solidarity with Chinese women, are not accidental, individual, but from the most principled and common ideal and goals, with deep and sincere emotions.Let me just cite one example - in the precision electrical instrument factory in Kyiv, Ukraine, the female worker who hugged us warmly called a Chinese lesbian who had studied in this factory by the name and asked her about her work and life in China. In this situation, she proudly told me about her excellent achievements in the factory with the affection of her family.All these fully demonstrate the same lofty and great goal, and the class sentiment of working hard together has tightly bound the women of China and the Soviet Union together.

All in all, no matter whether it is the Soviet women I read in the book, met in China, met in the Soviet Union, or even met on the roads in the cities and villages of the Soviet Union, and have never talked to Soviet women, I feel that There is a brand-new spirit and breath of communism in them!The advanced Soviet women who have been trained in communism for a long time and actively participate in the country's political and social life will always be models for Chinese women to learn from.