Communist guerrilla Zuo Yong was among those appalled by the behaviour of the Red Army: “The Russians were our allies—we were all in the same boat. We thought of their soldiers as our brothers. The problem, however, as we discovered, was they had no respect for our people. Their behaviour in Manchuria was appalling.” Jiang De, another guerrilla, shrugged: “The Russians simply behaved in the same way they did everywhere else.”
