/We'll probably never know but in all likelihood the plane crash was arranged by Stalin in order to get rid of the nationalist Uighurs whom he had previously supported in their struggle to establish an independent republic in Xinjiang. They were no longer useful. https://bit.ly/3yOkKTx
9/12 Oshchepkov〜took on work as an interpreter for counterintelligence. By1929,Oshchepkov had become the primary judo coach of the main sports club belonging to the Red Army／Accused of being aJapanese spy, he was arrested in1937as part of Stalin’s political purges and eventually disappeared
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Judo Diplomacy: How martial arts became a diplomatic tool for Russia and Japan
