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In any case, the regimental commander admired his chief of staff very highly and noted his outstanding service quality. "Hong Eui Pe was a wonderful chief Staff - remember Ilya Dubinsky. - In his face I had a wonderful assistant. His work he performed impeccably, was accurate, performers and initiative would sit at the headquarters until midnight, and sometimes slept there. " Alas! commander of the Koreans was not destined to live up to the war. No sooner was promoted and finishing in 1936 as Chief of Staff of the operational separation of 4-th separate armored brigade Military District, Hong Eui Pe fell into a meat grinder Stalin's repressions. How the fate of his wife - Moscow weavers and their two young sons - the Revolutionary Committee, and Marat, we know nothing.

Rather, they shared the fate of the camp all the family members of many "Enemies." At that time, as the summit of the Red Army matured plan of the new victorious World War ii, in choosing future adversaries and allies complete unanimity in red marshals were not. , for example, was supporter of the alliance with France. On his initiative, the French officers and generals are increasingly appearing in the Soviet divisions and corps. In vogue delegation, interns, and other forms of exchange. One of these interns - Major French General Staff Louis Leguest - arrived in the summer of 1935 under Chuhuyiv, the location of the tank regiment. "Dry, lean, correct, mature, with intelligent black eyes, he did not conceal his joy caused by the Franco-Soviet Union, - Dubinsky recalled.