Life
Pan Jun Shun moved to Russia in 1916 looking for work. He settled in Moscow where he found work as a laborer. As an enthusiastic communist, he decided to stay in the USSR. He married and had two sons while living in Moscow, after which he moved to Kharkov, Ukraine in 1936. His wife died before the outbreak of World War II
His two sons were drafted into the Soviet Army at the beginning of the war; they never returned home and were presumed to have been killed during the war.
He survived the war and continued to live there until his death in 1974.
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