Photo credit: Valentina Filatova’s granddaughter Valentina Kolomentieva at the anniversary of Meng Sanguo / ampravda.ru
A Chinese documentary telling the amazing story of Soviet doctors, who saved a Chinese boy in the middle of the 20th century, has been translated into Russian and posted online. The film was created in the summer of 2019 by the television crew from the Chinese province of Heilongjiang with the help of Russian colleagues. The documentary is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Moscow and Beijing, the Vesti TV program reports.
In China, many people know the story of the rescue of a four-year-old boy, Meng Sanguo, by Soviet doctors and nurses. The boy received terrible burns, and his parents turned to doctors of border Soviet villages for help. The touching Chinese film explains how Valentina Doroshkina and Valentina Filatova became skin donors for the boy and saved him.
Last year, Chinese television decided to create a documentary about the events of those years. Meng Sanguo came to Russia, which he calls his second homeland, for the shooting. The doctors and nurses who cured him in the late 1950s already passed away. The Chinese man and the film crew met with relatives of doctors.
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