Who were and for what the "heroes" ROA and other national formations of the Wehrmacht fought

The war ended long ago, almost seven decades ago, but many of its pages still bear the souls of citizens of post-Soviet countries. During the First World War (it is also called Germanic and imperialist), Russian soldiers did not go over to the side of the enemy. The Great Patriotic War in this aspect was different from previous wars. Many real heroes have distinguished themselves in the Red Army.

ROA (Russian Liberation Army) has become our shame. No army of the world could compare with ours in the number of defectors, forced and voluntary. Approximately 130 thousand soldiers, officers and generals of the Red Army rose under German banners. Among them were outstanding individuals. Who are the "heroes" of the ROA and other military formations of the Wehrmacht, where did they come from? About everything in order.

Vlasov

Lieutenant-General of the Red Army Andrei Andreevich Vlasov was an outstanding Soviet commander. Today it can be affirmed without any irony. After a civil war, he dedicated more than two decades of his life to strengthening the defense capability of the USSR, distinguished himself in China (1938-1939), taught military science, skilfully commanded troops, was an excellent organizer. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic Vlasov is on the most responsible and difficult sectors of the front, he defends Kiev and Moscow. Was injured. His authority in the troops was won by military labor, which explains in part the deplorable fact that even some of the Heroes joined the Germans. The ROA was mainly manned with prisoners of war, but there were many of them. Pilots of the Soviet Air Force Tennikov, Bychkov and Antilevsky received their Golden Stars not in Tashkent ...

Heroes of the ROA. Who is it?

In the Russian Liberation Army, other talented commanders also fought against their own. Vlasov's deputy for propaganda work was the brigade commissar of the Red Army, G. Zhilenkov, the former secretary of the Moscow city committee of the AUCPB. So, was a political worker, he stayed. Two orderly generals, a teacher of the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army, Malyshkin and Trukhin, were in charge of organizational matters. The hero of the Liepaja Defense Blagoveshchensky, as well as Shapovalov, who skillfully defended the Crimea in 1941, did not stay idle with the Germans. The Red Army generals are both.

What dreamed Vlasov and Ukrainian nationalists

AA Vlasov was a military man, and most likely he understood that even if Hitler wins, he will not have enough resources to keep the captured territories for a long time. Quite possibly, he believed that if two dictators fight with each other for a long time, they will exhaust their state apparatus sufficiently that the remaining regime falls by itself. It was on the basis of further political prospects that contradictions with the Hitlerite leadership arose both in Stepan Bandera and Andrei Vlasov. Declaring the possibility of independent states from Germany, they aroused the Fiihrer's anger, whose plans did not at all consist in creating a free Russian state and, especially, "nepalozhnu Ukraine." What the "heroes" of ROA and UPA dreamed of was a utopia. Perhaps they did not understand this.

Destinies of Traitors

On the side of the Vlasov army, two tsarist generals fought , Shkuro and Krasnov. They were heroes of the First World War and inflicted considerable losses on their future allies. During the Brusilov breakthrough, Cossacks, personally led by Krasnov, piled hundreds of Austrian soldiers on their peaks. "Wolf Hundred" Shkuro conducted deep raids behind enemy lines.

Ivan Dobrobabin, one of the famous panfilovtsy, defending Moscow, was shell-shocked, was captured, where he agreed to cooperate with the Germans.

These and other "heroes" of the ROA after the war were executed or served long terms of imprisonment. Some of them were lucky enough to flee, their destiny developed more safely under the sun of Argentina, Australia and other distant countries. It is unlikely that they will ever remember a kind word in their homeland. With respect to the traitors we have never been treated.