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@skinnylatte @skinnylatte My late father in law spoke with respect for the bravery of the Chinese soldiers during the fall of Singapore. He was based there as a young doctor in the British Army & was taken captive for nearly 3 years. *When he was an adolescent, his Russian born family (Sakhalin), had fled to Harbin (China) and then spent a year in Shanghai before going to Hong Kong to study medicine.
In his recorded interview with the Singapore national archives he says " we told the Chinese soldiers to get out of their uniforms and save themselves" ie. by looking like civilians. They refused to do this which was a very brave but final act of courage. He liked and respected them.