In June 1941, the Soviet-German war broke out. 15-year-old Zhu Min, who had just been sent to the Young Pioneers summer camp in Minsk, Belarus, for recuperation due to physical reasons, and 20 other children from various countries, became German soldiers. A young prisoner of the fascists; in August 1943, he was put into a tanker truck and escorted to East Prussia, Germany, where he served hard labor in a concentration camp and suffered lifelong illness. It was not until the Soviet Red Army captured East Prussia in January 1945 that Zhu Min was able to leave the concentration camp. After several months of wandering life, he was sent to a Soviet refugee shelter in Poland and was discovered. He returned to Moscow in January 1946 and completed high school and university studies.

In 1995, when the world commemorated the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Fascist War, the Russian government awarded commemorative medals signed by President Yeltsin to veterans who participated in the Soviet Patriotic War. Eighteen people in China have been awarded commemorative medals, one of which was awarded to Zhu Min in recognition of her defying rape, strictly guarding her origins, tenaciously surviving the concentration camp, and finally returning to Moscow.

On April 15, 2015, Russian Ambassador to China Denisov, on behalf of President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation, presented the award to 32 Chinese citizens who contributed to the Soviet Patriotic War (1941-1945). Commemorative medal "70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War". Zhu Min is one of the recipients of the medal.