Under what flag did Vlasov fight? Why does the Russian flag coincide with the flag of Vlasov’s army?

Putin's modern racists accuse Ukraine of all sins and crimes. Although, it was the Russian Federation that brazenly sent its troops into Crimea and began a senseless massacre in the Donbass, capturing part of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions... Syria, Turkey... Russian propagandists have no shame or conscience.

For them, Ukraine is a fascist junta, where “Bandera’s members of the Galicia division” are in power...

The Museum of Ukrainian Posters at the magazine “Museums of Ukraine” politely reminds us of Vlasov’s Russian Academy of Arts. Their crimes and symbolism. Which, surprisingly, became state in the Russian Federation.

So who are the “fascists, junta and Nazis”? I would like to ask the continuers of Goebbels’ propaganda and Vlasov’s fascist ideology...

Press service of the Ukrainian Poster Museum

Russian Liberation Army, ROA- the historically established name of the armed forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), who fought on the side of the Third Reich against the political system of the USSR, as well as the totality of the majority of Russian anti-Soviet units and units from Russian collaborators within the Wehrmacht in 1943-1944, mainly used at the level separate battalions and companies, and formed by various German military structures (the headquarters of the SS Troops, etc.) during the Great Patriotic War.

The insignia of the Russian Liberation Army (sleeve insignia) was worn by about 800,000 people at different periods of time, but only a third of this number was recognized by the leadership of the ROA as actually belonging to their movement.

Until 1944, the ROA did not exist as any specific military formation, but was mainly used by the German authorities for propaganda and recruiting volunteers for service. The 1st Division of the ROA was formed on November 23, 1944, a little later other formations were created, and at the beginning of 1945 other collaborationist formations were included in the ROA.

The army was formed in the same way as, for example, the North Caucasian special purpose battalion "Bergmann", the Georgian Legion of the Wehrmacht - mainly from Soviet prisoners of war or from among emigrants. Unofficially, the Russian Liberation Army and its members were called “Vlasovites,” after the name of their leader, former Soviet Lieutenant General Andrei Vlasov.

At the end of June 1942, the 2nd Shock Army of the Volkhov Front was cut off from the main forces of the Red Army. Most of the fighters died, the survivors scattered through the swampy forests. In this critical situation, the army commander and at the same time deputy commander of the Volkhov Front, General A. Vlasov, abandoned the troops entrusted to him and disappeared in an unknown direction. At the beginning of July 1942, Vlasov surrendered to the Germans. Due to his high official position, Vlasov knew a lot, so he was soon sent to the Vinnitsa prisoner of war camp, which was under the jurisdiction of German military intelligence - the Abwehr. There Vlasov declared his consent to participate in the fight against the Red Army on the side of the Nazis. At the beginning of August 1942, he proposed to the German authorities to create an independent volunteer “Russian Liberation Army” (ROA) to fight in alliance with Germany against the Stalinist regime. This idea interested the Nazi leadership, and Vlasov was entrusted with recruiting volunteers in prisoner of war camps and among emigrants. Vlasov pursued the task of uniting all anti-Soviet forces. However, the practical implementation of this plan by Hitler was postponed. Considering the cases of such volunteers going over to the side of the Red Army, there was little trust in them. Only by mid-1944 did the Nazi rulers begin to realize that things were now going very badly for them. In September 1944, the head of the SS and Gestapo, G. Himmler, met with Vlasov and gave the go-ahead for the formation of independent Russian divisions from proven forces.

On November 14, 1944, the so-called “Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia” (KONR) was formed in Prague with money from the German Reich. The committee adopted a manifesto of the anti-Soviet movement, literally reproducing Hitler’s propaganda texts about the USSR, England and the USA. Following this, the formation of ROA divisions began from units that had previously taken part in the fight against Soviet partisans, in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising, in combat operations on various sectors of the Soviet-German front, as well as volunteers from France, Denmark, Norway, the Balkan countries, Italy and etc. with a total number of up to 50 thousand fighters. In December 1944, on the instructions of the Minister of Aviation of Nazi Germany G. Goering, the ROA air force was created on the basis of the “Russian air group” formed as part of the Luftwaffe back in November 1943 (in total they were provided with 28 Messerschmitt and Junkers aircraft "). ROA units managed to take part in battles with Soviet troops during the Vistula-Oder and Berlin operations in the spring of 1945, as well as on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border.

PROPAGANDA

To reinforce the ROA, the Russian Foreign Orthodox Church was also brought in, which could not forgive the Soviet authorities for religious persecution. Here is what, for example, calling for an armed struggle against Soviet soldiers, the priest of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, Alexander Kiselev, wrote in one of the Vlasov publications in November 1944: “Which of us does not have a heart ache at the thought that the bright cause of saving the Motherland is connected with the necessity of fratricidal war - a terrible thing. What is the answer? What's the solution? And he himself answered: “War is evil, but sometimes it can be the least evil and even good.”

But here is another, as creepy as it is absurd, text - also from the Vlasov newspaper, only dated already 1945. This is a short note entitled “The Poles lost 10 million people”: “The British agency Reuters reports a message from the information bureau of the Polish armed forces, according to which Poland lost 10 million people during this war. These are the terrible results of the fatal war for the Polish people, caused by the criminal policy of the Warsaw government deceived by London.” In other words, the Vlasovites who fought together with the Germans in Poland believed that it was not Hitler and his assistants who were to blame for the terrible victims, but the Poles themselves and their allies!

MYTHS ABOUT VLASOV PEOPLE

In some publications you can find statements that the Vlasovites did not participate in hostilities against the Red Army. Such theses, not supported by facts, do not stand up to criticism. It is enough to quote the Vlasov newspaper “For the Motherland,” which, since November 15, 1944, was published in Russian twice a week in the territories occupied by Hitler. One of Vlasov’s closest associates, Major General F. Trukhin himself exposes his movement in the very first issue of the mentioned newspaper: “The German people are convinced that they have loyal allies in our volunteers. In battles on the Eastern Front, in Italy, in France, our volunteers showed courage, heroism and an unyielding will to win.” Or: “We have personnel units of the Russian Liberation Army, Ukrainian Vizvolny Viysk and other national formations, united in battle and having undergone the harsh school of war on the Eastern Front, in the Balkans, in Italy and France. We have experienced and seasoned officers.” And further: “We will courageously fight the Red Army, not for life, but for death.” The article also states that Vlasov’s troops will have all types of troops necessary to wage a modern war, and weapons with the latest technology: “In this regard, our German allies are providing enormous assistance.” The editorial of the newspaper “For the Motherland” dated March 22, 1945 talks about the ceremonial transfer to the Vlasovites of the Russian battalion, which was still in parts of the German army: “The path traversed by the battalion is glorious and instructive. It was formed in Belarus and distinguished itself there in battles with partisans. After this preliminary combat training, which showed a high degree of courage, fearlessness and perseverance of Russian soldiers, the battalion was included in the active German army, was in France, Belgium, Holland. During the memorable days of the Anglo-American offensive in the summer of 1944, the battalion took part in hot battles. Many fighters have awards for bravery.”

And here are excerpts from a report on the arrival of the former commander of the German division, which previously included this Russian battalion: “Great, brothers! – his greeting is heard in purely Russian. – Until today, you belonged to the German army. For a year and a half you fought alongside German soldiers. You fought near Bobruisk, Smolensk, in France, Belgium. You have many deeds to your name, the third company is especially famous. We are now required to fight to the last drop of blood. We need to win in order to free long-suffering Russia from the 25-year yoke of the Jews and communists. Long live the new Europe! Long live liberated Russia! Long live the leader of the new Europe, Adolf Hitler! Hooray! (Everyone stands up. Three powerful cheers shake the hall).”

Let us also cite interesting excerpts from a letter to the editor of the newspaper from one Russian volunteer from the front: “I went through the hard school of war together with my soldiers. For three years now we have been hand in hand with our German comrades on the eastern, and now on the northeastern, front. Many fell heroes in battle, many were awarded for bravery. My volunteers and I are looking forward to the next evening radio broadcasts. Say hello to General Vlasov personally. He is our commander, we are his soldiers, imbued with true love and devotion.”

Another message says: “We are a group of volunteers here in the German battalion. Four Russians, two Ukrainians, two Armenians, one Georgian. Having heard the committee’s call, we hasten to respond and want a speedy transfer to the ranks of the ROA or national units.”

Another common myth is that Vlasov’s campaign materials allegedly did not contain a word of anti-Semitism. One “eyewitness” defending the general recalls: “It’s unlikely that I saw all of Vlasov’s leaflets, but if I had come across even one with a call to fight the “Jewish-Bolshevik” regime, General A. Vlasov would cease to exist for me. The slightest hint of anti-Semitism was completely absent.” Our own analysis of the issues of the newspaper “For the Motherland” - the printed organ of the “Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia” - shows that almost every issue contains calls to fight “Judeo-Bolshevism” (a persistent stamp of the newspaper), direct attacks on Jews (though not necessarily Soviet), lengthy quotes from speeches of Hitler, other Nazis, or reprints from the fascist newspaper “Völkischer Beobachter”, to one degree or another touching on the topic of “Judeo-communism”. We do not consider it necessary to reproduce them here.

Of particular interest in the “biography” of the Vlasov movement is the episode associated with the Prague events in May 1945. An absurd version is being propagated that Prague, they say, was liberated from the Nazis by the Vlasovites! Without going into details of the offensive operation of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, as a result of which a million-strong enemy group was surrounded and defeated and thus assistance was provided to the insurgent Prague, let us draw attention to the following. Even before the start of the Prague operation, Vlasov, realizing that the end had come for the Wehrmacht, telegraphed to the headquarters of the 1st Ukrainian Front: “I can strike in the rear of the Prague group of Germans. The condition is forgiveness for me and my people.” Thus, by the way, another betrayal occurred - this time of the German masters. However, no response was received. Vlasov and his comrades had to fight their way through the German barriers in Prague to the Americans. They expected to stay with the Americans until the Third World War. The Vlasovites seriously believed that the USA and England, after the defeat of Germany, would dare to attack the USSR. And so, between the troops of the three fronts of the Red Army, moving day and night along all the roads to the rebellious Prague, on May 6, 1945, the 1st ROA division, numbering about 10 thousand people, slipped there, in which A. Vlasov himself was. Such a small, demoralized formation, of course, could not have played any serious role in the liberation of Prague, which had more than a million Nazis. The residents of Prague, mistaking the ROA division for a Soviet one, initially greeted it warmly. But the clumsy maneuver of the Vlasovites was soon understood, and the armed detachments of the Czechoslovak Resistance threw them out of Prague, managing to partially disarm them. Fleeing, the Vlasovites were forced to engage in battle with SS barriers that blocked their path to the zone of American troops. This was the end of the “decisive role” of the Vlasovites in the liberation of Prague.

END OF MOVEMENT

On May 12, 1945, the Soviet command learned from radio interception that Vlasov was in the area of ​​the Czech city of Pilsen. The operation to capture it was carried out by the 162nd Tank Brigade under the command of Colonel I. Mashenko. The forward detachment of the brigade captured the commander of one of the ROA battalions, who indicated the exact location of Vlasov. Everything else was a matter of technique. Some time later, the general was taken to the headquarters of the 13th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front, and then by plane to Moscow. The trial of Vlasov and his eleven henchmen took place in July–August 1946. By the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR, Vlasov and his closest accomplices were sentenced to death.

Most of the Soviet collaborators chose to surrender to the Americans and British. The Allies, as a rule, considered the “Vlasovites” as prisoners of war of the anti-Hitler coalition. According to the Yalta Agreements of the Allied Powers of 1945, all citizens of the USSR who found themselves abroad as a result of the war, including traitors, were subject to repatriation. By decision of the courts, most of the participants in the Vlasov movement ended up in labor camps, and the officers were executed.

However, not all Nazi collaborators were handed over to the Soviet side. Thus, the remnants of the 1st Russian National Army of the White emigrant B. Smyslovsky (about 500 people) managed to escape from the zone of French occupation in Austria (Vorarlberg) to neutral Liechtenstein on the night of May 2-3. There they were interned. The Smyslovites were not formally part of the Vlasov army. They acted independently starting in July 1941, when the Russian Foreign Battalion was created at the headquarters of the German Army Group North to collect intelligence. Later it was transformed into a training reconnaissance battalion, that is, essentially a school for training intelligence officers and saboteurs. At the end of 1942, Smyslovsky headed a special structure to combat the partisan movement. In 1945, Smyslovsky’s army numbered almost 6 thousand people.

The French and the Soviet side demanded that the Smyslovites be extradited to them, but the then Liechtenstein authorities, who sympathized with Hitler, refused to do this. In 1946, the Argentine government agreed to accept Smyslov and his accomplices. Transport costs were later covered by Germany.

The Americans, in contrast to the British, also tried not to hand over those who could be useful to them for future subversive work against the USSR. And this is understandable: after the defeat of Hitler’s Germany by the Soviet Union, which conquered all of continental Europe, F. Schiller’s words that only Russians can defeat the Russians acquired particular relevance...

WHO ARE THEY?

According to some estimates, a total of 800 thousand to 2 million Soviet citizens and emigrants from Russia and the USSR fought (or helped) against the USSR and its allies on the side of the Germans - those who participated in the terrorist actions of the occupiers, prolonged them and slowed them down the onset of victory.

For most of our contemporaries, the common noun for all of them “Vlasovite” and the concept “traitor” mean the same thing. On the Internet we found the memoirs of one of the participants in the Vistula-Oder operation, K.V. Popov, which contain characteristic assessments of this group of people: “We met Vlasovites on German territory. We did not take them prisoner - we shot them, although there was no such order. We hated these traitors to the Motherland fiercely - they were worse than the Nazis. They found diaries. There the traitors described how they were captured, how they were kept, and how they went over to the enemy’s side. I read such a diary of one killed Vlasov member. Vlasovets wrote that he wanted to return to his own people, but the Germans were vigilantly watching them. Then, when the opportunity arose to cross over, it became clear: they wouldn’t believe their own people, they wouldn’t forgive them - so they had to shoot at their own people to the end.”

Attempts to make General Vlasov and his comrades fighters against Stalinism, fighters for a democratic Russia have a weak connection with reality. Indeed, Vlasov’s addresses contained a lot of similar rhetoric. The Vlasov units, of course, included ideological opponents of the Soviet regime, but the overwhelming majority were those who wanted to avoid a difficult fate in German captivity. The morale of the Vlasovites fluctuated depending on the situation at the front. That is why the German command considered the Vlasov units as unreliable.

The “ideology” of the majority of Vlasovites was just a beautiful wrapper for their desire to save their own lives at all costs, and if they were lucky, to make a career, get rich, or settle old scores with their offenders. With “ideology” they only calmed their mental anguish due to betrayal and collaboration with the Germans. It is unlikely that when they shot at Red Army soldiers and partisans, they did not understand that they could potentially shoot at their own fathers or mothers, brothers or sisters, sons or daughters who had nothing to do with the crimes of the regime, but rather were its victims. How then did they differ from the “Bolshevik criminals”? Therefore, objectively, the Vlasovites fought not against Stalinism, but against their own people, and the Vlasov team was just an obedient cog in Hitler’s aggressive machine. If Russian collaborators fought against Bolshevism, then why did they fight on the Atlantic coast also with their allies in the anti-Hitler coalition, receiving thanks and promotions from the German command for this? It’s just that the Vlasovites made a big miscalculation, betting on the invincibility of the Reich.

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Stop disturbing the people with all sorts of vile inventions and slander! Reposting an article refuting the lie about the tricolor flying over Russia.

This article has already been published previously in this LiveJournal. Today there was a need to repeat it, edit it, improve it and post it here. As it turned out, the article is in demand among advocates of truth, who use references to it as an argument in polemics. The author expresses his deep gratitude to them and allows them to use the article in whole or in part in the interests of the fight for the truth.

And now, actually, to the article itself.

Nowadays, the myth about the flag of the Russian Federation as “Vlasov” is actively being introduced into consciousness, and therefore “unworthy” to be the official flag of our country. We can only counteract emotions with facts. And for this purpose, let's look at history

Part I. Flags of collaborators.

The use of the national flag by various collaborators is quite common. For example, the Vichy government used the national flag of France. Nevertheless, de Gaullus did not even think about replacing it with any other, citing the fact that it was being used by collaborators. Example: 33rd SS Grenadier Division "Charlemagne" (1st French). It used a chevron with the French tricolor applied to it. Or "Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism." His fighters subsequently formed the basis of the Charlemagne division.

1 - National flag of the Republic of France (has been such since the time of the French Revolution). 2 - 3 - models of the “Legion...” banner. 4 - coat of arms of the collaborationist Vichy government.

1 - Legion fighters. 2 - USSR, November 1941.

Legionnaires with their banner. Interesting facts:

The 638th Infantry Regiment (the official name of the "Legion" in the Wehrmacht) was the only foreign unit in the Wehrmacht that advanced on Moscow in 1941. In addition to the French themselves, several dozen White emigrants, subjects of the former Russian Empire (Great and Little Russians, Georgians) served in the legion. In addition to them, the regiment also included Arabs from the French colonies, a number of blacks and Bretons. Most of the Russian emigrants and blacks were demobilized during the reorganization of the legion in March 1942 (c)

What was the situation like among those French who remained loyal to their country and fought against the Nazi occupiers?

Example - Fighting France, the patriotic movement of the French for the national independence of their country.

1 - Flag of the Free French Forces, flag of "Free France" (another version of the name "Fighting France"). 2 - Guys of the Free Naval Forces.

In the center is the Cross of Lorraine, one of the national symbols of France. The most famous unit of the Free French is, of course, the Normandie-Niemen air regiment.

Banner of the Normandie-Niemen regiment.

Many years have passed since then, but the state flag of the French Republic is STILL THE SAME! The same flag that the collaborators had, the same flag that the patriots of France had. Is someone in France today demanding that it be removed as a flag of collaborators? Nobody! Today all the political forces of the republic are fighting under the flag of France - the Gaullists, the National Front, and the socialists. The same is with the flags of other countries that had their own collaborators - Belgium, the Netherlands, Serbia, Norway and so on.

Moreover, I want to note that the collaborators also used old symbols, dating back to royal times, but somehow not enough.

Symbols of the 33rd Waffen SS Division "Charlemagne".

The unit was officially founded on September 1, 1944 in Bavaria. It also included a division with the name Brigade Jeanne d´Arc. The Maid of Orleans, a symbol of France and its struggle for freedom! In France, is anyone demanding that we stop mentioning Jeanne’s name as “stained by traitors”? I've never heard anything like this.

The name of the division "Charlemagne" ("Charlemagne") was given in memory of the emperor who united Europe in the distant past, whose grave is in Aachen. The personality of the emperor became a symbol of the new German-French alliance. The division's badge, which was never used in combat, was a new coat of arms, copied from the clothes of Charlemagne - a two-part shield, divided vertically. On the left field there is half a German eagle (Reichsadler) - white on a gold field, on the right - 3 French traditional lilies, on a blue field. Instead of this sign, a chevron with the French tricolor (Flag of France) was applied to it, and the sign with the coat of arms was never put into use (c)

Lilies are a symbol of the French monarchy. They are called "fleur-de-lis" and during the "Old Order" they were on the white royal banner. By the way, this white color, combined with the colors of the city of Paris (red and blue), became the basis of the French flag. French monarchical symbols are not prohibited in modern France.

Part II. Which flag was actually the ROA flag?

Indeed, some Russian anti-Bolshevik formations created during the Second World War used the tricolor flag, in particular the Russian Security Corps and the 1st RNA of General Smyslovsky. However these formations were formed mainly from Russian emigrants and had nothing to do with Vlasov. The flag of the ROA itself was a white flag with an oblique azure cross, best known as St. Andrew's. ROA sleeve chevron also represented St. Andrew's shield with red edging. Photographs of the famous Prague meeting of the KONR on November 14, 1944 clearly show that the stage is decorated with two huge banners: a fascist flag with a swastika and St. Andrew's flag. The only thing documented use of the tricolor flag by the Vlasovites - the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943. However, in the future the Germans did not allow such a thing amateur performances . (With)

S. Drobyazko. Russian Liberation Army. M., AST, 1999 "Motherland", 1992, N 8-9, p. 84-90 .http://www.conservator.ru/mif/...

Now let's move on to viewing the illustrative material. Let's start with the Russland division.

One of the variants of the sleeve insignia of the “Special Division R”, 1943.

The commander of this unit, Smyslovsky, had a serious conflict with Vlasov, who spoke harshly about her. Vlasov was categorically against using the tricolor, as " white flag "He did not like that Holmston was supported by the heir to the Russian throne, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich (however, we will not argue about the rights of this gentleman to the Russian throne; this is a topic for a separate story, interesting only to monarchists). Vlasov was categorically against the monarchy and everything that had connections with the White Guards, he hated them and very strongly: in 1920 he himself fought against Wrangel. Vlasov was, whatever one may say, a Soviet man, from a peasant background, completely alien to the White emigrants (which, however, makes his betrayal doubly criminal and does not justify it at all). Therefore, the ROA and other Russian collaborator units (which were formed from emigrants) were not allies and friends, they did not fight together. In addition, the White Guards themselves hated Vlasov: he fought against them in civilian life, he was a former Red general, a Bolshevik, a communist (since 1930), a traitor-defector, and so on. Now on the symbolism of the ROA.

1 - sleeve chevron of ROA fighters.2 - St. Andrew's flag.3 - Breastplate of the first officer school of the ROA4 - Grave of 187 nameless ROA fighters and ROA generals Boyarsky and Shapovalov, executed by Czech partisans, in Prague.5 - ROA fighters - Vlasovites. Filming location: Northern France. 1944.

Everywhere - St. Andrew's flag. And this was at a ceremonial meeting held in Prague, where the Vlasov Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) was created. This was in 1944. The so-called "Prague Manifesto" by Vlasov.

And here everywhere Andreevsky.

And this is about the symbolism of the Vlasovites and other collaborators.

Although the use of the white-blue-red flag by the Vlasovites is also known. For example, at the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943. But this was rather an exception to the rule. To confirm the above, we present photographs of the parade in Pskov and the raising of the white-blue-red flag during the formation of the ROA in Müsingen (1945). (c) Let's look at the photos from the parade.

Do you see the man carrying the tricolor? In a white uniform, with a short mustache.

This man is a white emigrant and collaborator G.P. Lamsdorf, who, it should be noted, did not serve in either the Russian Imperial or the white armies, but this does not change the essence of the matter - the use of the tricolor was isolated and came as an initiative from the white emigration.

"In 1943, by the way, it was Lamsdorf who voluntarily went with the tricolor to the parade of the ROA Guards Brigade (in which there was no Vlasov yet), which caused the extreme anger of the Germans. The brigade, by the way, partially went over to the partisans, partially fled". (Author of the quote - drakonit) This only confirms my guess that the use of the tricolor was unauthorized, an isolated incident and had nothing to do with Vlasov and the Vlasovites.

So, we have before us Vlasovites, every single one of them with chevrons with the St. Andrew's flag, And white emigrant Lamsdorf, for whom the tricolor was native. It was monarchist flag, flag of the Russian Empire. That's why, he used this flag on the initiative of himself and a number of officers who served in both the Russian Imperial and White armies.

Part III. Myth-making.

There are well-known scandalous “paintings” by the “artist” N.M. Terekhov, who obviously has some kind of personal dislike for our national flag. Obviously, he is unpleasant that this flag was replaced by the red banner in 1991. The dislike is understandable, but why do this?

Admire his "creativity".

This is nothing more than manipulation of consciousness and distortion of objective reality. The author of these “pictures” is trying to change consciousness and introduce into it the stupidest myth that the tricolor is the “flag of the enemy”, that the Vlasovites only used it. Obviously, the author has problems that zombify other people and there are those who quite seriously consider the flag to be “Vlasov”. Although, as we see, this is not true.

Let's see what people say about this:

Is it worth responding to demagogy of this level? Joan of Arc was one of the most important symbols of the Vichy regime (for fighting against the British). So, is that why she stopped being a national heroine of France? (With)

PS Here some “comrades” have a question about this: is it really so? where is the proof?

Boris Kagarlitsky - From empires to imperialism. The state and the emergence of bourgeois civilization. http://profilib.com/chtenie/12...

But the image of Joan of Arc took center stage in the propaganda of the Vichy regime during the Second World War and in the ideology of the far-right National Front towards the end of the 20th century.

At all times, the square was one of the main public centers of the city. In 1941, the pro-Nazi Vichy regime organized here great propaganda festival of Joan of Arc.

Culture and propaganda in the Vichy era. http://staroekino.narod.ru/Vis...

Here are the titles of some of these films: “Our Battle” (Notre combat), “The Sea Tragedy of Kebir” (La tragedie de Mers el Kebir), “To work is to fight” (Travaitter c'estcombattre), “Call of the Stadium” (L' appel du stade), “French, here is your empire” (Francas voici votre empire), “Clean Air Crusade” (Croisade del'air pur), “ Jeanne D'Arc to Philippe Petain" (De Jeanne D'Arc a Philippe Petain), “French, you have a short memory” (Francais vous avez la memoire courte), “Traditions, a working day for Pierre Lavel” (Traditions Une Journee de travail de Pierre Laval), La Cite du musele.

The Russian flag existed before the ROA, and it’s not his fault that it was used (c)

The Russian tricolor was used by all sorts of nits. So what now? Should the government pay attention to this mold? The Russian flag has long been a tricolor. And the leeches that once sat down have long since died and fallen off. (c)

memoirs of a Russian German, an officer in the Wehrmacht service, assigned to A.A. Vlasov V. Shtrik-Shtrikfeldt “Against Stalin and Hitler”, published in 1993 - it is difficult to find a more valuable source. We read: “ Rosenberg(Alfred Rosenberg, one of the main war criminals of Nazi Germany, engaged in propaganda. - M. Ch.) I was interested in the question of the flag(for Vlasovites. - M. Ch.). The Romanov flag with an eagle and white-blue-red colors were it, of course, rejected (since no one from the ruling elite of Nazi Germany ever thought about recreating the Russian Empire! - M. Ch.). In contrast, Rosenberg liked the blue St. Andrew's cross on a white background,conceived as a small shield on a red banner" Or: " Historical Russian national colors - white-blue-red - were banned " Above the Dobendorf camp, in which the formation of the Vlasov formations took place, “... next to the German flag... fluttering blue St. Andrew's cross on a white cloth " Against this background, the lines of one brochure (published right at Moscow State University!) will seem somewhat strange, where the author writes very vaguely, perhaps even timidly, about the existence of the ROA’s own banner: “The entire Russian emigration continued to consider the white-blue-red flag a national shrine . (...) St. Andrew’s flag finally became just as national. Perhaps General A.A. borrowed his symbols from the white emigration. Vlasov, creating the ROA - Russian Liberation Army." And the reader is perplexed: what kind of symbolism did Vlasov use? White-blue-red flag or St. Andrew's flag? Or both at the same time? Not a single photograph has preserved for us the image of the Vlasovites under the “besik””, and vice versa, the sleeve insignia was a heraldic Spanish shield with a red border and the St. Andrew’s flag in it. These are the vicissitudes of the historical destinies of the slandered white-blue-red and “ real Vlasov"St. Andrew's flag...

Probably few people know that They wanted to revive the white-blue-red colors even in... the USSR! From 1949 to 1953, in connection with the return to many historical symbols (epaulets, ranks, ministries), most republics introduced national colors into their flags. On January 9, 1954, the flag of the RSFSR was approved - one of its projects included white-blue-red colors in the lower third of the flag, but at the last moment the project was rejected, probably because the idea was too bold. Therefore, we limited ourselves to introducing a narrow vertical blue stripe near the shaft. (With)

Traitors and traitors to the Motherland are under no circumstances allowed. But the symbolism they use is not to blame for the fact that dirty hands took it for dirty purposes. Just like the French tricolor is not to blame for the fact that it was used by traitors. The French punished their traitors, but there was not even a thought about the flag, replacing it, abolishing it, or doing anything else.

Thus, it can be said that The Russian flag cannot in any way be considered “Vlasov” and criminal , especially since, contrary to someone’s sick imagination, obviously formed under the impression of Terekhov’s “picture” (see link), the tricolor was not thrown at the Mausoleum. Well, it didn't happen, it didn't happen . All the banners thrown then were taken into account and counted. all of them are in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces. You can see them all there.

The enemy banners and standards, thrown onto the platform at the Mausoleum, were collected by captured SMERSH teams in May 1945. All of them are of an outdated 1935 model, taken from regimental storage areas and training camps (new ones were not made until the end of the war; the Germans never went into battle under the banners). The dismantled Leibstandarte LSSAH is also an old model - 1935 (the panel from it is stored separately in the FSB archive). In addition, among the banners there are almost two dozen Kaiser banners, mostly cavalry ones, as well as party flags, Hitler Youth, Labor Front, etc. All of them are now stored in the Central Military Museum. (With)

There is NO tricolor among these flags. And it never was.

It’s time to get rid of myths and throw out of our heads this stupid myth about the “Vlasov flag”, which is already quite boring and is being spread only by those who don’t like it and nothing more. The Russian flag is dear to me, I grew up under this flag, it means a lot to me. My flag, the Russian flag for me is the tricolor.

Part IV. Russian Flag - from history. Heroic pages.

The first mention of the flag in Russian history dates back to second half of the 17th century . The flag was introduced into use by the Moscow Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. It was a white-blue-red flag, which was intended for Russian ships floating in the Caspian Sea. It simultaneously played the role of an identification and signal sign, because Arab and Turkish ships also sailed in the Caspian Sea and such a flag was clearly visible from afar. IN 1668 g. The first Russian warship "Eagle" was launched. On this ship, by order of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the white-blue-red flag with a double-headed eagle sewn on it.Peter I approved tricolor flag as a distinctive sign ships of the Russian fleet . At the same time, the main purpose of the flag is to distinguish friendly ships from foreign ones in battle and the ship’s belonging to the state. So in 1699, Peter I gave the naval flag, under which merchant ships sailed, the status of a state flag - the main symbol of the country. By this time, the symbolism of the colors of the flag had finally taken shape. The tricolor banner of Peter I existed as the state flag of Russia until the 1917 revolution. (With)

1 - 2 - Estimated appearance of the flags of the ship "Eagle"3 - Photograph of the flag of the Tsar of Moscow, the oldest surviving Russian flag (1693). Central Naval Museum.4 - Flag of the Tsar of Moscow, modern rendering.

1 - Drawings of flags made by Peter I. 1699. 2 - The alleged land standard of Peter I or the regimental banner captured by the Swedes near Narva in 1700, stored in the Riddarsholm church. 3 - the first Russian ship "Goto Predestination" 4 - 5 - " Goto Predestination" in an engraving by Adrian Schonebeck (1701).

And finally - Russian flags at war

Five-day war. To Tbilisi - 66 km.2000. Russian soldiers in Grozny, liberated from bandits.

It is Russian flags that are raised today in Novrossiya. For the local population, they are a symbol of the struggle for their freedom, for their rights.

As befits the propagandists-guardians of the so-called. letter so-called bloggers are filled with blatant lies, distortions and substitution of concepts - which is not surprising for the guardian propagandists standing guard over their liberal mistresses. What kind of housewives are such mongrels - arrogant, lying, stupid scum. And their ribbon is “St. George’s”, and not the Guards’, as it is written in black and white in its Statute. And the tricolor was not used by Vlasov and other paramilitary units of collaborators (like Hitler banned!), and other lies designed for weak-minded, illiterate idiots. It’s like it’s the 90s now and you can just as brazenly and uncontrollably shit in people’s brains. But at least piss in their eyes, bishop. Although many of the signatories and participants in the mega-fight are, in some places, quite sane and patriotic citizens. But only with brains crap from 25 years of propaganda. And there is practically no difference from zombie dill.

Let's figure it out. To begin with, about the tricolor. I already wrote about the ribbon and the rest - links at the end of the article.

KONR brochure, 1944, - the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia - a political body created with the participation of the authorities of Nazi Germany to overthrow the existing political system in the USSR and united the Russians and a number of national organizations operating in territories controlled by Nazi Germany.

Recently, in view of the extremely negative attitude of Russian society towards the so-called Vlasov army, ideological movements have begun to separate it from its flag - the state flag of the Russian Federation, known as white-blue-red. Russian Liberation Army, ROA - the historical name of the armed forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), who fought on the side of the Third Reich against the USSR, as well as the totality of the majority of Russian anti-Soviet units and units from Russian collaborators within the Wehrmacht in 1943-1944, formed various German military structures (the headquarters of the SS Troops, etc.) during the Great Patriotic War, led by the famous traitor General A.A. Vlasov. As a flag, she used a flag with the St. Andrew's Cross, as well as the Russian tricolor, which is documented in the footage of the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943 and in the photo chronicle of the formation of the Vlasovites in Munsingen.

The use of the Russian tricolor in ROA units is confirmed by one of their marching songs - the so-called “March of the Russian Liberation Army”:
We are walking, with a tricolor flag above us.
We walk through our native fields.
Our motive is carried by the winds
And they are carried to the Moscow domes.
http://www.roa.ru/musik.html

And so, when everything had long been established precisely, absurd statements like these suddenly began to appear: It is a reliably known fact that when forming such units, the Germans banned the use of the white-blue-red three-stripe flag, clearly fearing Russian national symbols. This data can be gleaned from the memoirs of V. Shtrik-Strikfeldt “Against Stalin and Hitler,” a Russian German seconded to A.A. Vlasov: “Gradually, all the so-called “national military units” in the German army received badges with the national colors of their peoples . Only the largest people - the Russians - were denied this. This issue urgently required a solution. But even here difficulties arose. Historical Russian national colors - white-blue-red - were banned." (Russian flags during the Second World War)

To improve visibility, the flag is artificially colored.

Along with this data, the German writer Sven Steenberg argued that the flag of the ROA was Andreevsky. The ROA sleeve chevron was an Andreev shield with a red edging. Photographs of the famous Prague meeting of the KONR on November 14, 1944 clearly show that the stage is decorated with two huge banners: the Nazi flag with a swastika and the St. Andrew's flag. There is an opinion that the ROA flag was also a white-blue-red flag, but it was banned by the Germans. The Russian artist A. N. Rodzevich was involved in the development of the symbols of the ROA. He made nine sketches, all of which were dominated by the colors of the old Russian flag - white, blue and red. The sketches were submitted to the Imperial Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories for approval. Rosenberg personally crossed out all nine, after which the sketches came back, prompting a bitter remark from Vlasov: “I would have left it that way - the Russian flag, crossed out by the Germans out of fear of it.” Then Malyshkin suggested using the St. Andrew's Cross, and the sketch, which ultimately received Rosenberg's approval, was a blue St. Andrew's Cross on a white field. In the footage of the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943, there is a white-blue-red flag. But there the white-blue-red flag was used as a symbol of the Russian people, Russia and the White Army. (Steenberg S. General Vlasov. - M.: Eksmo, 2005)

So, the Germans banned the tricolor because they didn’t like it, these scribblers claim. But besides the ROA, Hitler also had other units of Soviet traitors.
The Russian National People's Army (RNNA) (Sonderverband “Graukopf” (“Special Unit “Gray Head”)) is an armed paramilitary formation formed in the occupied territory of the USSR and took part in the Second World War on the side of the Third Reich.

Lieutenant V.A. Ressler, Colonel K.G. Kromiadi and senior doctor Razumovsky. Osintorf, 1942. Ressler and Kromiadi are dressed in Soviet uniforms with RNNA shoulder straps and tricolor cockades.

“For the cockade of the headdress, the colors of the Russian national flag were taken - white, blue and red. Due to the lack of suitable material, they were made from cloth and cardboard. Of course, our flag was white, blue and red,” he writes in his book “For the Land, for Freedom!” Colonel of the White Army K. G. Kromiadi.

“Green Army of Special Purpose” - 1st Russian National Army - Division “Russland” - a military formation that operated as part of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War under the leadership of B. A. Smyslovsky (an Abwehr officer operating under the pseudonym Arthur Holmston) - went into battle wearing the tricolor.

Sleeve insignia of the “Special Division of General Smyslovsky”, 1943

Why did the fascists, who supposedly didn’t like the tricolor so much that they allegedly banned Vlasov from using it, allowed the tricolor to everyone who liked it? Where is the logic? Why was a white-blue-red flag used at the KONR meeting in Riga in 1944?

Why was the blue and red cockade worn on the right sleeve the distinctive badge of the KONR Armed Forces? The answer is obvious - no one in Hitler’s army banned the tricolor; the ROA simply used two flags to expand the range of attracting volunteers. Today's Vlasovites select chronicle footage where only one of the hung flags is captured by the camera lens, and present them as proof of the “innocence” of their symbol, saying that the participants in the events have already died, there are no ROA museums - go figure. (For the main collaborator of the Kremlin junta, Gena Zyuganov, the tricolor has long ceased to be a Vlasov skirt; now he calls it “the desecrated Vlasov.”) Modern Vlasovites themselves admit their lies when, between statements about the Nazis banning the tricolor, they insert phrases like, “But there is white and blue -The red flag was used as a symbol of the Russian people, Russia and the White Army." Like, yes, they banned it, but they used it, but not as Vlasovites, but as the Russian people.

And although the order of the Main Staff of the Wehrmacht Ground Forces (OKH) 500/43 on the introduction of the uniform and insignia of the Russian Liberation Army for the “Vlasovites” prescribed stripes and a flag in the form of St. Andrew’s oblique cross (another Russian symbol defaced by betrayal), Himmler allowed Vlasov use the "state" white-blue-red flag.
On February 16, 1945, the white-blue-red tricolor was solemnly raised over the military training ground and barracks in Munsingen, where the 1st and 2nd divisions of the ROA were formed (according to German numbering - 600th and 650th). On this day, Vlasov, like Yeltsin later, declared this flag to be the flag of “free Russia.”

But even if the tricolor really was not the official flag of the ROA, its widespread use by other units of traitors who fought with Hitler against their people still makes it the flag of traitors, traitors, and scum. And it doesn’t matter that these traitors practically did not take part in the fighting at the front, as the current liberal traitors are trying to justify. The important thing is that they betrayed the Oath. And moreover, they swore allegiance to the enemies - the Third Reich and Hitler personally. And they definitely took part in punitive actions against their own people.

It is worth recalling that for the first time in the occupied territory of the USSR, the red-blue-white flag was raised in November 1941 in the so-called. "Lokot Republic". It was from these traitors that the first punitive detachments and RONA were formed to suppress the local population. They were later reorganized into the 129th SS Brigade and sent to Belarus to fight partisans and suppress the Warsaw Uprising. There will be a separate article about that. The RONA emblem is the same tricolor:

When the Nazi occupiers occupied another city, the first thing they did was catch and hang all the communists, and the second thing was to open the Orthodox Church. From here you can see who was Hitler’s enemy and who was his friend. In Hitler's army there was not and could not be a red banner with a sickle, a hammer, and a star, but any traitor carried the state flag of the Russian Federation in it. And here we see under which symbol people were supporters of Hitler, and under which opponents. The 70th anniversary of the “great victory” that the Kremlin Vlasovites stole from the Soviet people is approaching, so it’s not a bad idea to remember this so that there are no illusions that they have stopped hanging Vlasovites...

About the Russian tricolor, history - why it has never been the official state flag of Russia.

Now it’s no secret that the war of 1941 - 1945 had elements of the Second Civil War, since about 2 million people fought against Bolshevism, which illegally seized power in 1917, 1.2 million citizens of the USSR and 0.8 million white emigrants. The SS had a total of 40 divisions, 10 of which were composed of citizens of the Russian Empire (14th Ukrainian, 15th and 19th Latvian, 20th Estonian, 29th Russian, 30th Belorussian, two Cossack SS divisions , North Caucasus, SS brigades Varyag, Desna, Nachtigal, Druzhina, etc. There was also the RNA of General Smyslovsky, the Russian Corps of General Skorodumov, the Cossack Stan of Domanov, the ROA of General Vlasov, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the Eastern divisions of the Wehrmacht, police, Hiwi There were many of our compatriots directly in German units, and not just in national formations.

Today I would like to talk about ROA( Russian Liberation Army) General Vlasov.

P.S. The article does not justify the ROA and does not accuse them of anything. The article was solely made for historical reference. Everyone decides for themselves whether they were heroes or traitors, but this is part of our history and I think everyone has the right to know about this history.

Russian Liberation Army , ROA - military units that fought on the side of Adolf Hitler against the USSR, formed by the German headquarters of the SS Troops during the Great Patriotic War from Russian collaborators.

The army was formed mainly from Soviet prisoners of war, as well as from among Russian emigrants. Unofficially, its members were called “Vlasovites,” after their leader, Lieutenant General Andrei Vlasov.



Story:

The ROA was formed primarily from Soviet prisoners of war who were captured by the Germans mainly at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, during the retreat of the Red Army. The creators of the ROA declared it as a military formation created for “ liberation of Russia from communism "(December 27, 1942). Lieutenant General Andrei Vlasov, who was captured in 1942, together with General Boyarsky, proposed in a letter to the German command to organize the ROA. General Fyodor Trukhin was appointed chief of staff, General Vladimir Baersky (Boyarsky) was his deputy, Colonel Andrei Neryanin was appointed head of the operational department of the headquarters. The leaders of the ROA also included generals Vasily Malyshkin, Dmitry Zakutny, Ivan Blagoveshchensky, and former brigade commissar Georgy Zhilenkov. The rank of ROA general was held by former Red Army major and Wehrmacht colonel Ivan Kononov. Some priests from the Russian emigration served in the marching churches of the ROA, including priests Alexander Kiselev and Dmitry Konstantinov.

Among the leadership of the ROA were former generals of the Russian Civil War from the White Movement: V. I. Angeleev, V. F. Belogortsev, S. K. Borodin, Colonels K. G. Kromiadi, N. A. Shokoli, Lieutenant Colonel A. D. Arkhipov, as well as M. V. Tomashevsky, Yu. K. Meyer, V. Melnikov, Skarzhinsky, Golub and others, as well as Colonel I.K. Sakharov (formerly a lieutenant in the Spanish army under General F. Franco). Support was also provided by: generals A. P. Arkhangelsky, A. A. von Lampe, A. M. Dragomirov, P. N. Krasnov, N. N. Golovin, F. F. Abramov, E. I. Balabin, I. A. Polyakov, V.V. Kreiter, Don and Kuban atamans, generals G.V. Tatarkin and V.G. Naumenko.

Captain V.K. Shtrik-Shtrikfeldt, who served in the German army, did a lot to create the collaborator ROA.

The army was financed entirely by the German state bank.

However, there was antagonism between former Soviet prisoners and white emigrants, and the latter were gradually ousted from the leadership of the ROA. Most of them served in other Russian volunteer formations not associated with the ROA (only a few days before the end of the war, formally attached to the ROA) - the Russian Corps, the brigade of General A.V. Turkul in Austria, the 1st Russian National Army, the regiment " Varyag" by Colonel M.A. Semenov, a separate regiment of Colonel Krzhizhanovsky, as well as in Cossack formations (15th Cossack Cavalry Corps and Cossack Stan).

On January 28, 1945, the ROA received the status of the armed forces of an allied power, maintaining neutrality towards the United States and Great Britain. On May 12, 1945, an order was signed to dissolve the ROA.

After the victory of the USSR and the occupation of Germany, most of the members of the ROA were transferred to the Soviet authorities. Some of the “Vlasovites” managed to escape and get asylum in Western countries and avoid punishment.

Compound:

At the end of April 1945, A. A. Vlasov had the following armed forces under his command:
1st Division of Major General S.K. Bunyachenko (22,000 people)
2nd Division of Major General G. A. Zverev (13,000 people)
3rd Division of Major General M. M. Shapovalov (unarmed, there was only a headquarters and 10,000 volunteers)
the reserve brigade of Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) S. T. Koida (7000 people) is the only commander of a large formation not extradited by the US occupation authorities to the Soviet side.
Air Force of General V.I. Maltsev (5000 people)
VET division
officer school of General M. A. Meandrov.
auxiliary parts,
Russian Corps of Major General B. A. Shteifon (4500 people). General Steifon died suddenly on April 30th. The corps that surrendered to Soviet troops was led by Colonel Rogozhkin.
Cossack Camp of Major General T. I. Domanov (8000 people)
group of Major General A.V. Turkul (5200 people)
15th Cossack Cavalry Corps under Lieutenant General H. von Pannwitz (more than 40,000 people)
Cossack reserve regiment of General A. G. Shkuro (more than 10,000 people)
and several small formations of less than 1000 people;
security and punitive legions, battalions, companies; Russian Liberation Army of Vlasov; Russian security corps of Shteifon; 15th Cossack Corps von Pannwitz; individual military formations that were not part of the ROA; “volunteer helpers” - “hivi”.

In total, these formations numbered 124 thousand people. These parts were scattered at a considerable distance from each other.

I, a faithful son of my Motherland, voluntarily joining the ranks of the Russian Liberation Army, solemnly swear: to fight honestly against the Bolsheviks, for the good of my Motherland. In this struggle against the common enemy, on the side of the German army and its allies, I swear to be faithful and unquestioningly obey the Leader and Commander-in-Chief of all liberation armies, Adolf Hitler. I am ready, in fulfillment of this oath, not to spare myself and my life.

I, as a faithful son of my Motherland, voluntarily joining the ranks of the fighters of the Armed Forces of the peoples of Russia, in the face of my compatriots, I swear an oath - for the good of my people, under the main command of General Vlasov, to fight against Bolshevism to the last drop of blood. This struggle is being waged by all freedom-loving peoples in alliance with Germany under the main command of Adolf Hitler. I vow to be faithful to this union. In fulfillment of this oath, I am ready to give my life.



Symbols and insignia:

The flag with the St. Andrew's Cross, as well as the Russian tricolor, was used as the flag of the ROA. The use of the Russian tricolor, in particular, is documented in footage of the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943, in photo chronicles of the Vlasov formation in Munsingen, as well as other documents.

Completely new uniforms and insignia of the ROA could be seen in 43-44 on soldiers of the eastern battalions stationed in France. The uniform itself was made of grayish-blue material (stocks of captured French army cloth) and in cut was a compilation of a Russian tunic and a German uniform.

The shoulder straps of soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers were of the Russian tsarist army type and were sewn from dark green fabric with red edging. Officers had one or two narrow red stripes along their shoulder straps. General's shoulder straps were also of the royal type, but the same green shoulder straps with red edging were more common, and the general's "zig-zag" was depicted with a red stripe. The placement of insignia among non-commissioned officers roughly corresponded to the tsarist army. For officers and generals, the number and placement of stars (German model) corresponded to the German principle:

In the figure from left to right: 1 - soldier, 2 - corporal, 3 - non-commissioned officer, 4 - sergeant major, 5 - second lieutenant (lieutenant), 6 - lieutenant (senior lieutenant), 7 - captain, 8 - major, 9 - lieutenant colonel , 10 - colonel, 11 - major general, 12 - lieutenant general, 13 - general. The last highest rank in the ROA, Petlitsy, also included three types - soldier. and non-commissioned officer, officer, general. The officer's and general's buttonholes were edged with silver and gold flagella, respectively. However, there was a buttonhole that could be worn by both soldiers and officers. This buttonhole had a red border. A gray German button was placed at the top of the buttonhole, and a 9mm ran along the buttonhole. aluminum galloon.

"Russia is ours. Russia's past is ours. Russia's future is also ours" (gen. A. A. Vlasov)

Printing organs: newspapers ROA fighter"(1944), weekly" Volunteer" (1943-44), " Front leaflet for volunteers "(1944), " Volunteer Messenger "(1944), " Alarm"(1943), " Volunteer Page "(1944), " Warrior's Voice"(1944), " Zarya" (1943-44), " Work », « Arable land", weekly " Is it true" (1941-43), " With hostility». For the Red Army: « Stalin's warrior », « Brave Warrior », « Red Army », « Front-line soldier», « Soviet warrior ».

General Vlasov wrote: "Recognizing the independence of each people, National Socialism provides all the peoples of Europe with the opportunity to build their own lives in their own way. For this, each people needs living space. Hitler considers its possession the fundamental right of every people. Therefore, the occupation of Russian territory by German troops is not aimed at destruction Russians, but on the contrary - victory over Stalin will return to the Russians their Fatherland within the family of New Europe."

On September 16, 1944, at the headquarters of the Reichsführer SS in East Prussia, a meeting between Vlasov and Himmler took place, during which the latter stated: “Mr. General, I spoke with the Fuhrer, from now on you can consider yourself the commander-in-chief of the army with the rank of colonel general.” A few days later, the reorganization of the headquarters began. Before that, to the headquarters, except for Vlasov and V.F. Malyshkin included: commandant of headquarters Colonel E.V. Kravchenko (since 09.1944, Colonel K.G. Kromiadi), head of the personal office, Major M.A. Kalugin-Tenzorov, Vlasov’s adjutant Captain R. Antonov, supply manager Lieutenant V. Melnikov, liaison officer S.B. Frelnkh and 6 soldiers.

On November 14, 1944, the founding congress of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) took place in Prague, and A. Vlasov was elected chairman. In his opening speech, Vlasov said: “Today we can assure the Fuhrer and the entire German people that in their difficult struggle against the worst enemy of all peoples - Bolshevism, the people of Russia are their faithful allies and will never lay down their arms, but will go shoulder to shoulder with them until complete victory." At the congress, the creation of the Armed Forces of the KONR (AF KONR) was announced, led by Vlasov.

After the congress, the security company of Major Begletsov and the management company of Major Shishkevich were transferred from Dabendorf to Dahlem. Major Khitrov was appointed commandant of headquarters instead of Kromiadi. Kromiadi was transferred to the post of head of Vlasov's Personal Office, his predecessor, Lieutenant Colonel Kalugin, to the post of head of the Security Department.

On January 18, 1945, Vlasov, Aschenbrener, Kroeger met with the Secretary of State of the German Foreign Ministry, Baron Stengracht. An agreement was signed on the subsidization of KONR and its aircraft by the German government. At the end of January 1945, when Vlasov visited German Foreign Minister von Ribbentorp, he informed Vlasov that cash loans were being provided for KONR. Andreev testified about this at the trial: “As the head of the main financial department of KONR, I was in charge of all the financial resources of the Committee. I received all financial resources from the German State Bank from the current account of the Ministry of the Interior. I received all amounts of money from the bank by checks issued by representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sievers and Ryuppei, who controlled the financial activities of KONR. From such checks I received about 2 million marks.”

On January 28, 1945, Hitler appointed Vlasov Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces. The ROA began to be treated as the Armed Forces of an allied power, temporarily subordinated operationally to the Wehrmacht.

"Telegram from the Reichsführer SS to General Vlasov. Compiled on the instructions of Obergruppenführer Berger. From the day this order was signed, the Fuhrer appointed you as the supreme commander of the 600th and 650th Russian divisions. At the same time, you will be entrusted with the supreme command of all new emerging and regrouping Russian formations. Yours." "The disciplinary right of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief will be recognized and at the same time the right of promotion to officer ranks up to lieutenant colonel. Promotion to colonel and general takes place in agreement with the head of the SS Main Directorate in accordance with the provisions existing for the Great German Empire. G. Himmler."

On February 10, 1945, Inspector General of Volunteer Formations E. Kestring informed Vlasov that, in view of the completion of the creation of the 1st Division and the progress made in the formation of the 2nd, he could officially take command of both formations.

The oath-taking parade took place on February 16 in Müsingen. Kestring, Aschenbrenner, commander of the 5th military regiment were present at the parade. in Stuttgart Fayel, head of the testing site in Müsingen, General. Wenniger. The parade began with Vlasov walking around the troops. Bunyachenko raised his hand in an Aryan salute and reported. Having completed his tour, Vlasov ascended to the podium and said the following: “During the years of joint struggle, the friendship of the Russian and German peoples was born. Both sides made mistakes, but tried to correct them - and this speaks of a commonality of interests. The main thing in the work of both sides is mutual trust trust. I thank the Russian and German officers who participated in the creation of this union. I am convinced that we will soon return to our homeland with those soldiers and officers whom I see here. Long live the friendship of the Russian and German peoples! Long live the soldiers and officers of the Russian army! Then the parade of the 1st Division began. There were three infantry regiments with rifles at the ready, an artillery regiment, an anti-tank fighter division, sapper and signal battalions. The procession was closed by a column of tanks and self-propelled guns. On the same day, the Russian Corps announced its entry into the ROA.

Text of the oath of the ROA/AF KONR: “As a faithful son of my Motherland, I voluntarily join the ranks of the troops of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. In the presence of my fellow countrymen, I solemnly swear to fight honestly to the last drop of blood under the command of General Vlasov for the good of my people against Bolshevism. This struggle is being waged by all freedom-loving peoples under the supreme command of Adolf Hitler. I vow that I will remain faithful to this union."

On February 20, 1945, the deputy representative of the International Red Cross in Germany was given a KONR memorandum on protecting the interests of prisoners of war from the ROA if they surrendered to representatives of the Western powers. When coming into contact with the International Red Cross, Vlasov counted on the help of the organization’s secretary, Baron Pilar von Pilah, a Russian officer.

By the end of March 1945, the total strength of the KONR Armed Forces was about 50,000 people.

On March 24, 1945, at the All-Cossack Congress in Virovitica (Croatia), a decision was made to unite the Cossack troops with the KONR Armed Forces. Vlasov was also joined by the brigade of Major General A.V. Turkul, who began the formation of regiments in Lienz, Ljubljana and Villach.

Major General Smyslovsky, who headed the 1st Russian National Army, refused to cooperate with Vlasov. Negotiations with General Shandruk on the inclusion of the SS division "Galicia" in the KONR Armed Forces remained without result. The German command did not subordinate the 9th infantry brigade to Vlasov. Major General von Henning, in Denmark. Later, one of the regiments of the brigade became part of the 1st division. (714th), stationed since February on the Oder Front under the command (from the beginning of March) of Colonel Igor Konst. Sakharov (participant in the Spanish Civil War, head of the Spanish branch of the Russian Fascist Party).

To test the combat effectiveness of the KONR Armed Forces, on the orders of Himmler, an assault group (505 people) was formed by Colonel I.K. Sakharov. Armed with SG-43 rifles, MP-40 submachine guns and Faustpatrons, the group was brought into battle on February 9 in the area between Wriezen and Gustebise in the Küstrin region with the goal of dislodging Soviet troops from the bridgehead on the western bank of the Oder. The detachment as part of the Döberitz division took part in the battles against the 230th Division. Commander of the 9th Army, Gen. Busse ordered the commander of the 101st Corps, General. Berlin and the division commander, Colonel Hünber, “receive the Russians in a friendly manner” and “behave very smartly with them politically.” The detachment was entrusted with the task of liberating a number of settlements in the area of ​​the 230th RKKA SD during a night attack and persuading its soldiers to cease resistance and surrender. During the night attack and 12-hour battle, the Vlasovites, dressed in Red Army uniforms, managed to capture several strong points and capture 3 officers and 6 soldiers. In the following days, Sakharov’s detachment undertook two reconnaissance in force in the region of the city of Schwedt and participated in repelling a tank attack, destroying 12 tanks. On the actions of the Russians, the commander of the 9th Army, Infantry General Busse, reported to the main command of the German ground forces (OKH) that the Russian allies distinguished themselves by the skillful actions of their officers and the bravery of their soldiers. Goebbels wrote in his diary: “... during Sakharov’s operation in the Küstrin area, General Vlasov’s troops fought magnificently... Vlasov himself believes that although the Soviets have enough tanks and weapons, they nevertheless faced almost insurmountable difficulties supplies from the rear. They have a lot of tanks concentrated on the Oder, but they don’t have enough gasoline..." Gene. Berlin personally awarded the soldiers and officers the Iron Crosses (Sakharov was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class), Vlasov received personal congratulations from Himmler on this occasion. After this, Himmler told Hitler that he would like to have more Russian troops under his command.

On March 26, at the last meeting of the KONR, it was decided to gradually pull all formations into the Austrian Alps for surrender to the Anglo-Americans.

On April 13, the Swiss Ambassador in Berlin, Zehnder, said that the arrival of the Vlasovites on Swiss territory was undesirable, because this may harm the interests of the country. The Swiss government also refused to Vlasov personally.

In April, Vlasov sent Captain Shtrik-Shtrikfeld and General Malyshkin with the task of establishing contact with the allies.

On April 10, the Southern group of the ROA performed in the Budweis-Linz region. The 1st Division moved here from the Oder Front. At the beginning of May she was near Prague, where by this time a rebellion had broken out. Chehir radioed asking for help.

On May 11, Vlasov surrendered to the Americans and was in the Shlisselburg fortress as a prisoner of war. At 14:00 on May 12, under the protection of an American convoy, he was sent to higher American headquarters, ostensibly for negotiations. The column of vehicles was stopped by Soviet officers. At gunpoint, they demanded that Vlasov and Bunyachenko, who was with him, move into their cars. American officers and soldiers did not interfere. German historians believe that the Deputy Chief of Staff of the 12th Corps of the American Army, Colonel P. Martin, played an important role in this.

ROA officers were shot without trial, and everyone else was sent to concentration camps in locked freight cars. Those who were not sentenced to death and camp terms, by decree of the State Defense Committee of August 18, 1945, received an extrajudicial 6 years of special settlement.

In addition to Vlasov, Malyshkin, Zhilenkov, Trukhin, Zakutny, Blagoveshchensky, Meandorov, Maltsev, Bunyachenko, Zverev, Korbukov and Shatov appeared at the closed trial. The court sentenced them to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out on August 1, 1946.

1. Commander-in-Chief: Lieutenant General Andrei A. Vlasov, former commander of the 2nd Shock Army of the Red Army. Iron Cross (02/09/1945).

2. NS and Deputy Commander-in-Chief: Major General F.I. Trukhin (08.1946, hanged), former deputy NSh of the North-Western Front of the Red Army

3. Deputy NS: Colonel (since 09/24/1944 Major General) V.I. Boyarsky

4. officer under the Commander-in-Chief for special assignments: Nikolai Aleksan. Troitsky (b. 1903), graduated from the Simbirsk Polytechnic Institute in 1924, then from the Moscow Architectural Institute. He worked in the People's Commissariat for Education, scientific secretary of the Moscow Architectural Society, and deputy scientific secretary of the USSR Academy of Architecture. Arrested in 1937, he was under investigation for 18 months at Lubyanka. In 1941 he was captured and until 1943 he was in a concentration camp. Co-author of the Prague Manifesto KONR. After the war, one of the leaders and organizers of the SBONR. In 1950-55. Director of the Munich Institute for the Study of History and Culture of the USSR. Author of the book "Concentration Camps of the USSR" (Munich, 1955) and a series of short stories.

5. adjutant of the Headquarters leadership group: second lieutenant A.I. Romashin, Romashkin.

6. Commandant of Staff: Colonel E.V. Kravchenko

7. officer for special assignments: senior lieutenant M.V. Tomashevsky. Graduated from the Law Faculty of Kharkov University.

8. Liaison Officer: Nikol. Vladim. Vashchenko (1916 - after 1973), pilot, was shot down and captured in 1941. He graduated from propagandist courses in Luckenwald and Dabendorf.
Head of the Office: Lieutenant S.A. Sheiko
translator: second lieutenant A.A. Kubekov.
Head of the general unit: Lieutenant Prokopenko
head of food supply: captain V. Cheremisinov.

Operations department:

1. Chief, Deputy NS: Colonel Andrey Geor. Aldan (Neryanin) (1904 - 1957, Washington), son of a worker. In the Red Army since 1919. Graduated from infantry courses and the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze (1934, with honors). In 1932 he was expelled from the CPSU(b) for his left-Trotskyist deviation, then reinstated. Head of the Operations Department of the Ural Military District (1941), was captured near Vyazma in November 1941, being the head of the operations department of the 20th Army headquarters. In 1942-44. member of the Anti-Comintern. Responsible for the organizational activities of the ROA headquarters. Chairman of the Union of Warriors of the Liberation Movement (USA). Member of the Central Bureau of the SBONR.

2. Deputy: Lieutenant Colonels Korovin

3. Head of subdepartment: V.F. Ril.

4. Head of subdepartment: V.E. Mikhelson.

Intelligence Department:

Initially, the military and civilian intelligence services were under the jurisdiction of the KONR security department, Lieutenant Colonel N.V. Tensorova. His deputies were Major M.A. Kalugin and b. head of the special department of the headquarters of the North Caucasus military district Major A.F. Chikalov. On 02.1945, military intelligence separated from civilian intelligence. Under the supervision of Major General Trukhin, a separate intelligence service of the ROA began to be created, and an intelligence department was formed at the Headquarters. On February 22, the department was divided into several groups:
intelligence: chief lieutenant N.F. Lapin (senior assistant to the head of the 2nd department), later Lieutenant B. Gai;

counterintelligence.

enemy intelligence group: second lieutenant A.F. Vronsky (assistant to the head of the 1st department).

According to the order of Major General Trukhin dated 8.03. In 1945, the l/s department consisted of 21 officers, in addition to the chief. Later, the department included captain V. Denisov and other officers.

1. Chief: Major I.V. Grachev

2. head of counterintelligence: Major Chikalov, supervised the operational intelligence of the ROA, since 1945 he organized the training of military intelligence personnel and terrorist actions in the USSR.

Counterintelligence Department:

Chief Major Krainev

Investigation Department:

Chief: Major Galanin

Secret correspondence department:

Chief: Captain P. Bakshansky

Human Resources Department:

Chief: Captain Zverev

Communications department:

Head of the Office, Senior Lieutenant V.D. Korbukov.

VOSO Department:

Chief: Major G.M. Kremensky.

Topographic department:

Chief: Lieutenant Colonel G. Vasiliev. Senior lieutenant of the Red Army.

Encryption department:

1st Chief: Major A. Polyakov
2. Deputy: Lieutenant Colonel I.P. Pavlov. Senior lieutenant of the Red Army.

Formations department:

1st Chief: Colonel I. D. Denisov
2nd Deputy: Major M.B. Nikiforov
3. group leader of the formations department: captain G.A. Fedoseev
4. group leader of the formations department: captain V.F. Demidov
5. group leader of the formations department: captain S.T. Kozlov
6. Head of the formation department group: Major G.G. Sviridenko.

Combat training department:

1. Chief: Major General Asberg (Artsezov, Asbjargas) (b. Baku), Armenian. Graduated from a military school in Astrakhan, commander of a tank unit. Colonel of the Red Army. He emerged from encirclement near Taganrog, was convicted by a military tribunal and sentenced to death in 1942, which was replaced by a penal battalion. In the first battle he went over to the Germans.

2. Deputy: Colonel A.N. Tavantsev.

Head of the 1st subsection (training): Colonel F.E. Black

3. Head of the 2nd subsection (military schools): Colonel A.A. Denisenko.

4. Head of the 3rd subsection (charter): Lieutenant Colonel A.G. Moskvichev.

Command department:

Consisted of 5 groups.

1. Chief: Colonel (02.1945) Vladimir Vas. Poznyakov (05/17/1902, St. Petersburg - 12/21/1973, Syracuse, USA). In the Red Army since 1919. In 1920 he graduated from the Kaluga command courses. From 09.20 instructor of newspaper business on the Southwestern Front. In 1921-26. student of the Higher Military Chemical School. Since 01.26, head of the chemical service of the 32nd Saratov Infantry Division. In 1928-31. teacher at the Saratov School of Reserve Commanders. In 1931-32 teacher at the Saratov Armored School. In 1932-36. head of the chemical service of the Ulyanovsk armored school. Captain (1936). Major (1937). In 1937-39 arrested and tortured. In 1939-41. teacher of chemistry at the Poltava Automotive Technical School. Since 03.41, head of the chemical service of the 67th IC. Lieutenant Colonel (05/29/1941). 10.1941 captured near Vyazma. In 1942, head of the camp police near Bobruisk, then at the propaganda courses in Wulheide. 04.1943 at the Dabendorf school of propagandists, commander of the 2nd cadet company. From 07.43 he was the head of the preparatory courses for propagandists in Luckenwalde. In the summer of 1944, he was the head of a group of ROA propagandists in the Baltic states. Since 11.1944, head of the command department of the ROA headquarters. On October 9, 1945, he was sentenced to death in absentia. Since the early 50s. taught at military schools of the US Army, worked for the CIA. Since the beginning of the 60s. taught at the military aviation school in Syracuse. Author of the books: “The Birth of the ROA” (Syracuse, 1972) and “A.A. Vlasov" (Syracuse, 1973).

2. Deputy: Major V.I. Strelnikov.

3. Head of the 1st subsection (General Staff officers): Captain Ya. A. Kalinin.

4. Head of the 2nd subsection (infantry): Major A.P. Demsky.

5. Head of the 3rd subsection (cavalry): senior lieutenant N.V. Vashchenko.

6. Head of the 4th subsection (artillery): Lieutenant Colonel M.I. Pankevich.

7. Head of the 5th subsection (tank and engineering troops): Captain A. G. Kornilov.

8. Head of the 6th subdepartment (administrative, economic and military sanitary services): Major V.I. Panayot.

Russian Liberation Army - ROA. Part 1.

KONR brochure, 1944, - the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia - a political body created with the participation of the authorities of Nazi Germany to overthrow the existing political system in the USSR and united the Russians and a number of national organizations operating in territories controlled by Nazi Germany.

Recently, in view of the extremely negative attitude of Russian society towards the so-called Vlasov army, an ideological movement has begun to separate it from its flag - the state flag of the Russian Federation, known as white-blue-red. Russian Liberation Army, ROA - the historical name of the armed forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), who fought on the side of the Third Reich against the USSR, as well as the totality of the majority of Russian anti-Soviet units and units from Russian collaborators within the Wehrmacht in 1943-1944, formed various German military structures (the headquarters of the SS Troops, etc.) during the Great Patriotic War, led by the famous traitor General A.A. Vlasov. As a flag, she used a flag with the St. Andrew's Cross, as well as the Russian tricolor, which is documented in the footage of the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943 and in the photo chronicle of the formation of the Vlasovites in Munsingen. The use of the Russian tricolor in ROA units is confirmed by one of their marching songs - the so-called “March of the Russian Liberation Army”:

We are walking, with a tricolor flag above us.
We walk through our native fields.
Our motive is carried by the winds
And they are carried to the Moscow domes.

And now, when everything had been established long ago and precisely, absurd statements like these suddenly began to appear: It is a reliably known fact that when forming such units, the Germans banned the use of the white-blue-red three-stripe flag, clearly fearing Russian national symbols. This data can be gleaned from the memoirs of V. Shtrik-Strikfeldt “Against Stalin and Hitler,” a Russian German seconded to A.A. Vlasov: “Gradually, all the so-called “national military units” in the German army received badges with the national colors of their peoples . Only the largest people - the Russians - were denied this. This issue urgently required a solution. But even here difficulties arose. The historical Russian national colors - white-blue-red - were banned."(Russian flags during World War II)

To improve visibility, the flag is artificially colored.

Along with this data, the German writer Sven Steenberg argued that the flag of the ROA was Andreevsky. The ROA sleeve chevron was an Andreev shield with a red edging. Photographs of the famous Prague meeting of the KONR on November 14, 1944 clearly show that the stage is decorated with two huge banners: the Nazi flag with a swastika and the St. Andrew's flag. There is an opinion that the ROA flag was also a white-blue-red flag, but it was banned by the Germans. The Russian artist A. N. Rodzevich was involved in the development of the symbols of the ROA. He made nine sketches, all of which were dominated by the colors of the old Russian flag - white, blue and red. The sketches were submitted to the Imperial Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories for approval. Rosenberg personally crossed out all nine, after which the sketches came back, prompting a bitter remark from Vlasov: “I would have left it that way - the Russian flag, crossed out by the Germans out of fear of it.” Then Malyshkin suggested using the St. Andrew's Cross, and the sketch, which ultimately received Rosenberg's approval, was a blue St. Andrew's Cross on a white field. In the footage of the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943, there is a white-blue-red flag. But there the white-blue-red flag was used as a symbol of the Russian people, Russia and the White Army.(Shteenberg S. General Vlasov. - M.: Eksmo, 2005)

So, the Germans banned the tricolor because they didn’t like it, these scribblers claim. But besides the ROA, Hitler also had other units of Soviet traitors.
Russian National People's Army (RNNA) (Sonderverband “Graukopf” (“Special Unit “Gray Head”))- an armed paramilitary formation formed in the occupied territory of the USSR and took part in World War II on the side of the Third Reich.
Lieutenant V.A. Ressler, Colonel K.G. Kromiadi and senior doctor Razumovsky. Osintorf, 1942. Ressler and Kromiadi are dressed in Soviet uniforms with RNNA shoulder straps and tricolor cockades.

“For the cockade of the headdress, the colors of the Russian national flag were taken - white, blue and red. Due to the lack of suitable material, they were made from cloth and cardboard. Of course, our flag was white, blue and red.", - writes in his book “For the land, for freedom!” Colonel of the White Army K. G. Kromiadi.

"Green Special Purpose Army" - 1st Russian National Army - Division "Russland"- a military formation that operated as part of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War under the leadership of B. A. Smyslovsky (an Abwehr officer operating under the pseudonym Arthur Holmston) - went into battle under the tricolor.
Sleeve insignia of the “Special Division of General Smyslovsky”, 1943

Why did the fascists, who supposedly didn’t like the tricolor so much that they allegedly banned Vlasov from using it, allowed the tricolor to everyone who liked it? Where is the logic? Why was a white-blue-red flag used at the KONR meeting in Riga in 1944?

Why was the blue and red cockade worn on the right sleeve the distinctive badge of the KONR Armed Forces? The answer is obvious - no one in Hitler’s army banned the tricolor; the ROA simply used two flags to expand the range of attracting volunteers. Today's Vlasovites select chronicle footage where only one of the hung flags is captured by the camera lens, and present them as proof of the “innocence” of their symbol, saying that the participants in the events have already died, there are no ROA museums - go figure.(For the main collaborator of the Kremlin junta, Gena Zyuganov, the tricolor has long ceased to be a Vlasov skirt; now he calls it “the desecrated Vlasov.”) Modern Vlasovites themselves admit their lies when, between statements about the Nazis banning the tricolor, they insert phrases like, “But there is white and blue -The red flag was used as a symbol of the Russian people, Russia and the White Army." Like, yes, they banned it, but they used it, but not as Vlasovites, but as the Russian people. But even if the tricolor really was not the official flag of the ROA, its widespread use by other units of traitors who fought with Hitler against their people still makes it the flag of traitors, traitors, and scum.

Spiritual bonds and values ​​of carriers of the state flag of the Russian Federation.

Polivanov O.I.
10/14/2014

Wehrmacht generals wore the St. George's ribbon

Differences between the Guards Ribbon and the St. George Ribbon: the modern ribbon for the Order of St. George (1992) is an alternation of three black and two orange stripes. But the Guards Ribbon is three black stripes superimposed on an orange background. Since 1769, the pre-revolutionary Guards ribbon was in the colors of the state emblem - black and yellow. Only four years before the revolution, a change was made to the statute of the order: orange and black officially became the colors of St. George. But even here there is a difference from the Guards ribbon - the side orange gaps along the edge of the ribbon are narrow, while those of the Soviet guardsmen are wide.

Putlevizor lies that the people called the Guards Ribbon “St. George’s” to spite the officialdom, and the wearing of pre-revolutionary awards was prohibited. Before the revolution, people called the St. George Cross “Egory”. Why would all of a sudden, during the Great Patriotic War, Komsomol atheists suddenly “remember” about some kind of George? And in the USSR, the wearing of old regime awards was never prohibited by anyone; soldiers and marshals wore them without any hesitation. Moreover, the official press published photos of heroes where the Order of Lenin or the star of the Hero of the Soviet Union was adjacent to the St. George crosses.

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