[2] He descended from nobility ancestor: Platon's father, Aleksandr Stanislavovich Skrzhinsky, was a Polish noble and a graduate of the Historical and Philological Institute of Prince Bezborodko in Nizhyn who had the certification to teach Latin and Ancient Greek languages.
Platon's mother, Anna Alekseevna Skrzhinskaya, was a Russo-Ukrainian noblewomen, had been living in Paris and attended Sorbonne University.
In the prison he was forced to perform menial labour, military truck maintenance, and sometimes a translator due to his multilingual capability.
Like many other Soviet POWs, Platon suffered from severe mistreatment and malnourishment, resulted in traumas affected his mental health till the end of his life.
In 1944, as the organization's identity was leaked, the anti-war officer arranged its members, including Platon, to be relocated to another prison facility in Denmark.
Moreover, under the influence of alcohol, Platon had a heated argument with a NKVD sergeants about roles and activities of Soviet POWs during the war.
Platon was assign the task of the truck drivers and did not directly participate in the punitive military action against Viet Minh.
And then Platon discovered the pictures of communist leaders Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong amongst the looted personal belonging of Viet Minh soldiers.
Platon later smuggled food and rations to the Vietnamese prisoners of war and assisted them in their menial labor, openly told them about his past as a Soviet POW.
The local Vietnamese had good relationship with Platon, they even gave him more favour and affection due to being sympathized with his unfortunate fate.
[1][6][3] After the 1954 Geneva Accord, many Viet Minh cadres and their families, including Platon and his daughter Anna, were relocated to northern half of the country which was under control of the socialist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV).
In Hanoi, Platon and Anna attended an audience hosted by President Hồ Chí Minh and was invited to the presidential palace as guests.
Thanks to president Hồ's personal appeal, together with strong support from the DRV authorities, the Soviet government recognized Platon's citizenship and allowed his repatriation.
They travelled to Berdichev to meet Platon's parents only to find out Anna Alekseevna died long ago and Aleksandr Stanislavovich was murder by the Nazi in 1942.
Unemployed and homeless, Platon sent Anna Platonovna to a relative, while himself rented a house in Moskva and worked as a truck driver in the Soviet capital.
Platon personally liked his job as it enabled him to broadcast his anti-war messages and expressed his love for Vietnam and his Vietnamese relatives.
He became a translator after retirement, mostly focused on French literature and some works of Vietnamese writers, and also acted as advisors for Soviet and Russian researchers about Vietnam-related themes.