With the German counter-offensive in May 1942, the Soviet Lieutenant General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov, commander of the 2nd Shock Army of the
Volkhov Front, was taken prisoner by Wehrmacht troops. He claimed that during those days of battle he affirmed his anti-bolshevism and adopted a pro-Nazi German stance, believing Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was the greatest enemy of the Russian people, and there is evidence that suggests Vlasov may have changed sides in a bid to give his countrymen a better life than the one they had under the communist rule of Stalin. Vlasov later founded the Russian Liberation Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, in hopes of creating the Russian Liberation Army - known as ROA (Russkaya Osvoboditel'naya Armiya). On May 10 1945, Vlasov and his men reached western Allied forces and surrendered to them. However, Vlasov – along with many of his men and other collaborators – was forcibly repatriated to the Soviet Union by the Americans. Approximately 33,000 men were handed over between May and September 1945 to USSR forces. They were then executed or sent to the Gulag. Andrey Vlasov was hanged in Moscow on August 1 1946. Top image: Soviet Terek Cossacks of Kosaken-Regiment 6 under command of a Lieutenant Ponomarev as part of the ROA. Nazi Propaganda Kompanie photo. FU. Bottom image: Russian and Don Cossack turncoats enlisted into the Wehrmacht. Photo sometimes attributed to French photographer and collaborator André Zucca. Credit: Karl Mensburg. FU.
Vlasov was magnificent, properly Russian national military Commander! He decided to revenge himself upon Stalin, who committed terrible crimes against all peoples of Russia. Vlasov had high ideal of the Free Russia, as well as the real sense of responsibility towards his soldiers. The Soviets won over Germany only by their extreme brutality and inhumanity.
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ReplyDeleteAll legionaries from the Soviet East that volunteered into the German ranks that were captured by the western allies would find themselves repatriated back into vengeful Soviet hands and thus almost certainly damned to a grim fate in the gulags of Siberia in which most would never return…
ReplyDeleteGod bless the russian heros that fought against bolshevism.
ReplyDeleteThese guys got a deal they didn’t deserve and sold down the river to appease Stalin. Once handed over to the Soviets, most were immediately summarily executed. Sometimes in the presence, or earshot of Western Allied Forces. May they rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteВ годы Второй мировой войны факты измены правящей в России государственной большевистской системе приобрели заметный характер. В русском освободительном движении в 1943–1945 годах, по поименному учету, участвовали более 1000 представителей командно-начальствующего и политического состава Красной армии. Только у генерала Власова весной 1945 года служили 5 генерал-майоров, 1 комбриг, 1 бригадный комиссар, 42 полковника и подполковника Красной армии, 1 капитан первого ранга ВМФ, более 40 майоров Красной армии и т. д. .
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