Who did Chiang Ching-kuo married in Soviet Union?
Faina Vakhreva
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Chiang Ching-kuo, the former President of Taiwan, was married to Faina Vakhreva, the daughter of a Russian jeweler. They met while Chiang Ching-kuo was studying at the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Despite objections from both their families, they got married and had two sons, Eric and Hsiao-yung.
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