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70 Seconds, 70 Years: The story of Zhao Yiman

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Zhao Yiman was born into a rich family in southwest China’s Sichuan Province and traveled to study at the Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow. In the winter of 1928, she returned to China and engaged in underground revolutionary work in Shanghai and Jiangxi Province. Zhao was sent to northeast China to carry forward the fight against Japanese aggression and lost her life after months of torture in 1935. Watch this video and send us your thoughts to wwii@cctvnews.cn.

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