Platon Nguyễn Văn Thành

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Platon Nguyễn Văn Thành (1922–2003), born Platon Aleksandrovich Skrzhinsky (Russian: Платон Александрович Скржинский) and also known as Thành Nga (Thành the Russian) or Hai Thành, was a Russian soldier who fought for the communist-led Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. He served in Viet Minh's well-known 307th Battalion, which was active in Southern Vietnam. Platon Thành returned to Hanoi and then the Soviet Union after the 1954 Geneva Accords. He worked at the Vietnamese Department of Radio Moscow and maintained contacts with his Vietnamese friends, with notable figures of North Vietnam and unified Vietnam. He once visited Vietnam in 1988 together with old comrades of the 307th Battalion. Platon died in Moscow at the age of 80.

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