룩셈부르크 룩셈부르크 (2)
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>> My name is Krylov Ailey.
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>> In Korea, I was called Lee.
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>> So I am born the 23rd of July, 1931, in [FOREIGN LANGUAGE].
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>> So I went into the Army the 8th of June, 1949.
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>> So 1950 was the first call for volunteers to go into Korea.
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>> He only went with the second detachment.
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>> So this was going on through May [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] 1950?
>> Fifty-two.
>> 1952 until June ’52 where you were in Luxembourg and in Belgium.
>> Oui, mm-hmm.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah.
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>> And then they went to Belgium.
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>> So they finished their instructions there.
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>> Meersburg.
>> To Meersburg.
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>> So in March in ’52, they went by airplane from the airport, Meersburg.
>> Meersburg.
>> Meersburg, where?
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>> And then first to the Azoren Islands.
>> And then Newfoundland.
>> Then Newfoundland.
>> Springfield.
>> Springfield, yeah.
>> Oklahoma.
>> Oklahoma.
>> San Francisco.
>> San Francisco.
>> Hawaii.
>> Hawaii.
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>> [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] yeah.
>> And then Tokyo.
>> And then Tokyo.
>> And then from Tokyo, I was [FOREIGN LANGUAGE].
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>> Then they went from Tokyo by boat to the south of Japan, Sasebo.
>> Yeah.
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>> Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
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>> Okay.
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>> So they went to Korea, and then for 2 months, they were trained.
>> [FOREIGN LANGUAGE]. Yeah. Yeah.
>> In training, and then … [FOREIGN LANGUAGE].
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>> And then the first time they went to the front.
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>> So then they went …
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>> Then they went second time to the front in September of ’52, 1952.
>> Yeah.
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>> And they went to the first post, not far away, about 1 kilometer away from the Chinese.
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>> And then they had two periods there …
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>> … during the whole period that they were there.
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>> You could not bring your head high because all the time it was shooted.
>> Yeah.
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>> And then they went back, and they went again to the front.
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>> They were the day when there was rain period.
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>> And they were 3 weeks in the front, and they were totally wet from the morning to the evening.
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>> So that’s the period, rain period, for the rice fields.
>> Yeah.
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>> Excuse me, please.
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>> So they went back from the front.
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>> When they went back, the activities was mainly to make patrol, patrol.
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>> And he remembers he was a special rotation.
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>> He received another name. It was [FOREIGN LANGUAGE].
>> Aven, Josh.
>> Josh Aven.
>> Josh Aven. [FOREIGN LANGUAGE].
>> So he … They changed the name because his father was officer in the army of the Czar.
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>> And at this time, they were still persecuted.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
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>> They have a name to protect him, and then he would come into where they would test prisoner. He would have been in danger with his name.
>> Yeah.
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>> He received a citation, may be different from [INAUDIBLE] patrol is what we did, which we did.
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>> So that was, he had the graduation because he was very contentious with a big conscious, and very high … He was very cold-blooded, how you call it. He was very … He not was so emotional. He kept his cold blood.
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>> So he was … He received this, all the contention, because of the patrols, and he says that he was very conscious and did his job very well.
>> I have a question, so I know … I learned that your father … So you’re ethnically Russian?
>> Russian, yeah, yeah, Russian.
>> Ethnically?
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>> So his father was Russian, but his father married here in Luxembourg, during the Luxembourg warfare.
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>> When the revolution finished in Russia, some people freed from Russia.
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>> Then the white Russians, they had no more financial means.
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>> So they start to … They found work in Luxembourg in the north of the country in Wiltz. There were still industry for to make leather at this time.
>> So my question is, because in the Korean War, Russia was on the other side of the war, right?
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>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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>> North Korea was supported by Russia.
>> How did that feel? How did it affect you if any way?
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>> So this … He says the Navy received protection, but he said he never faced Russians to fight them.
>> True.
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>> So they changed the name.
>> Aven, George. Aven George.
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>> Aven, George.
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>> His real name is Krylov, yes.
>> Yeah.
>> To protect himself, he changed it to protect himself.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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>> So he wants to say something more.
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>> So when he was in enrolled with his army in 8th March, the 8th of March, ’49, the 8th of March, ’49, Tuten Werner was his first chief in this part of army.
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>> And then in the 23rd of January, 1950, they went back to Luxembourg, and then the following stations …
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>> So from Japan.
>> Tokyo, Okinawa, Bangkok, Karachi, Beirut, Nice, Luxembourg.
>> Nice is the south of France and then Luxembourg.
>> Wow.
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>> So they were not … no isolation, so they had a lot of … In the ears, it was very hard, tough.
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>> So he went back to the army to the stay there at his end, and his last grade was …
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>> So since 1986, he’s in pension.
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>> If you want to ask something …
>> You also visited Korea many times, right?
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>> Four times, I visited.
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>> So the firs time he was there …
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>> The first time he was there was 1976, and there he could see still a lot of poverty. He could see what the people suffered.
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>> That’s the second time he was there in 2010, 2013 and then 2016.
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>> So what you could see …
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>> So you could see what they really succeeded to do a lot of very hard work. It’s very hardworking people.
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>> Also too good, also too can confirm this.
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>> I think that’s all.
>> I hope that you’re very proud, also very proud.
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>> Thank you.
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>> I am very proud.
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>> He likes South Korea. He’s very stoked when he goes to Korea. It’s no … How you call this in English. There’s no …
>> Traffic jam.
>> Yes.
>> No, no, no.
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>> It is very clean, and it’s a discipline he can experience there.
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>> So and also he can see in Korea the people know what Luxembourg is, and the children learn in the school to know all the different nations who participated to help liberate Korea.
>> Well, again …
>> Thank you.
>> No, thank you.
>> Thank you. Thank you. That was …
