The story of the betrayal of General Vlasov. The film "General Vlasov

In the biography of Andrei Andreyevich Vlasov, there is nothing unusual. He was born in 1901 in the family of a simple Nizhny Novgorod peasant. At the end of the rural school, he, as a very capable child, was sent to study further, but since the family was rather poor, they chose the cheapest educational institution for him - a religious school. But the funds were still not enough, and the teenager had to do tutoring.

In 1915, Vlasov graduated from college and entered the theological seminary, and after 1917 he transferred to a single labor school of the second degree. In 1919, he was already a student in the agronomy faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod University. But there was a civil war, and A.A. Vlasov went to the Red Army. The first front for him was the South, where he fought with other Red Army men against Baron Wrangel. Then he participated in the battles of Makhno, Kamenyuk and Popov.

After the Civil War, a former student did not return to study at the University of Nizhny Novgorod. He remained to serve in the Red Army. At first he commanded a platoon, then a company. After - he taught tactics at a military school in Leningrad. In the late 30s, his career progressed particularly fast. Vlasov is appointed division commander. A few months later he was sent on a secret government business trip: he becomes a military attache in China under Chiang Kai-shek. In 1939, Vlasov received the post of division commander in the Kiev Special Military District.

The following are excerpts from the military characteristics of Vlasov:

"Very sensible growing commander"

“In the division, a general order was pulled over several months”

“The level of tactical training in his division is very high”

According to the results of military exercises that took place in September 1940, Vlasov’s division was awarded the Red Banner. It is worth noting that the exercises were held in the presence of the People's Commissar of Defense S.K. Timoshenko.

In 1941, the Great Patriotic War began. Already in August, Vlasov was entrusted with command of the 37th Army. Near Kiev, his army and a number of others (5th, 21st, 26th) were surrounded. Vlasov managed to withdraw part of his troops from the encirclement.

After that, Vlasov receives an appointment to the Western Front - he is again given an army, this time the twentieth. Under his leadership, the twentieth army distinguished itself in battles in the Volokolamsk direction. January 28, 1942 Vlasov was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. He was already twice an order bearer before the war, which was an exceptional case (at that age - twice an order bearer before the Second World War is a rarity). In newspapers, his name was put on a par with the name of General Zhukov. I. Stalin himself respected Vlasov and considered him an intelligent and talented commander.

Naturally, all his merits and successes could not please his rivals, and in 1942 the commander of the Volkhov Front K.A. Meretskov advised Stalin to send Vlasov to save the 2nd Shock Army instead of the wounded Klykov. After all, Vlasov has experience in withdrawing troops from the encirclement (he withdrew the 37th army from near Kiev), and, according to Meretskov, no one except Vlasov will be able to cope with this difficult task. Stalin hears his advice and signs an order, according to which Vlasov must save the second shock army.

Meretskov excellently appreciated the hopeless position of the second shock, and Vlasov, having arrived there, understands that this task is beyond his power. But nevertheless, under his command, several attempts were made to break through the encirclement. But the soldiers were simply exhausted and exhausted, although they had more than enough ammunition, as the Valley expedition shows.

The largest battles took place at Krasnaya Gorka and Cow's Creek. Vlasov realized that these people are so incredibly tired that there can be no talk of any withdrawal from the environment. Then Vlasov orders to leave the encirclement in small groups, who, as they can, and move towards Staraya Russa, in order to join the Luga Party, if possible.

For all this time, desperate attempts to save the dying army did not stop. For a short time it was possible to break through the ring of surroundings. Then a narrow corridor with a width of 300 - 400 meters was formed. Under the crossfire of the enemy, he turned into the “Valley of Death”: German machine gunners sitting on both sides shot thousands of our soldiers. When a “hill” formed from the corpses, the machine gunners simply climbed on it and fired from there. So senselessly our soldiers perished. Until mid-July, small groups of soldiers and commanders of the 2nd Shock were still seeping through the front line. Those who failed to get out either died or were captured. These days, the Tatar poet Musa Jalil, an employee of the army newspaper “Courage”, fell into the hands of the enemy unconsciously.

But what is the fate of General A. A. Vlasov himself, the commander of the 2nd Shock Army? Having given the army the order to leave the encirclement as best he could, he, with a small group, went towards Chudov. The path for him was very difficult: for the Germans Vlasov was a welcome prey, and, moreover, the NKVD detachment under the command of Sazonov was already “hunting” him.

About how Vlasov was captured, there are many versions. Below are some of them.

The German officer, the platoon commander of the 550th penal battalion, taken prisoner near Vitebsk in February 1944, showed during interrogation that Vlasov, dressed in civilian clothes, was hiding in a bathhouse near the village of Mostki south of Chudov. The village headman detained Vlasov and handed him over to the head of the intelligence department of the 38th air corps.

The Soviet officer, the former deputy chief of the political department of the 46th Infantry Division, Major A. I. Zubov, called a slightly different place - Sennaya Kerest. July 3, 1943 he said that in search of food Vlasov went into one of the houses. While he was eating, they surrounded the house. Seeing the German soldiers entering, he said: “Do not shoot! I am the commander of the second shock army Andrei Vlasov "

Cook A. Vlasov Voronov. M. tells: “Being surrounded, Vlasov, among thirty or forty staff workers, tried to connect with the Red Army, but nothing came of it. Wandering through the forest, we connected with the leadership of one division, and we became about two hundred people.

Around July 1942, near Novgorod, the Germans found us in a forest and imposed a battle, after which I, Vlasov, a soldier Kotov and a driver Pogibko went to the villages.

Mortally, with the wounded Kotov, we went to one village, and Vlasov and I went to another. When we went into the village, I don’t know its name, we went into the same house, where they mistook us for the partisans, the local "Samokhova" house surrounded us, and we were arrested. "

According to the latest version: Vlasov, cook M. Voronov, adjutant and chief of staff Vinogradov, severely wounded, went to the village, where the adjutant Vlasova was left exhausted and sick Vinogradov. Vinogradov was shivering, and Vlasov gave him his overcoat. He himself and the cook went to another village, where they asked the first person they met (as it turned out, the village headman) to feed them. In return, Vlasov gave him his silver watch. The headman told them that the Germans went everywhere and suggested that while he was carrying food, he should sit in the bathhouse, and in order not to cause unnecessary suspicions, he would block them.

Before Vinogradov and the adjutant had time to eat, the locals had already called the Germans to surrender the partisans. When the Germans arrived, they saw Vlasov’s overcoat and a man who, according to the description, was very similar to Vlasov (they really were very similar), they instantly arrested him. And then they called from the "Vlasov" village. The Germans really did not want to call in there - what did they care about ordinary partisans when they drove Vlasov himself. But, in the end, this village was on its way to headquarters, and they stopped by.

They were very surprised when another Vlasov came out of the bathhouse and said: “Do not shoot! I am the commander of Vlasov! ” They did not believe him, but he showed the documents signed by Stalin himself.

Vlasov himself in his appeals and leaflets wrote that he was captured in battle. But both German and Soviet sources claim the opposite. Major Zubov, a participant in the exit from the encirclement of a group of officers of the 2nd Shock Army, recalled that Vlasov, under all pretexts, tried to reduce the size of his group. Maybe because it would be easier to get out, but maybe the extra witnesses were simply not needed.

On July 15, the command of the 18th German Army sent the corps commanders protocols of interrogations of Vlasov.

The Geneva Conference obliged the captured soldier to announce the following about himself: name, rank, and name of the military unit. The prisoner was not obliged to report the rest of the information, and the convention forbade pulling this information out by force. Although in practice there was everything, but General Vlasov was not beaten or tortured. He testified very willingly himself, starting with the fact that he joined the Communist Party for the sake of a career. Vlasov praised the work of German aviation and artillery, illustrating the success of the enemy with the exact number of dead and prisoners. He apologized that he did not know the answer to some questions.

Before the enemy, he gave a negative characteristic to General K. A. Meretskov. The competence of General Meretskov does not need protection, and the fact that in early 1941 Meretskov was unexpectedly arrested, tortured and beaten left an imprint on his character. But even mortally insulted and humiliated, he gave all his strength, all knowledge and all experience to the service of his homeland. Most likely, he had no idea that he could do otherwise ...

Vlasov said that the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts are not capable of any offensive operations in the direction of Leningrad, that there is only enough cash available to hold the front, he warned the Germans that reinforcements could not be counted on - everything was given to the south. He warned of the possibility of Zhukov's advance in the central direction. These days, the Red Army was preparing for the Stalingrad and North Caucasus operations. The Nazis were eager for the Volga, eager for Baku oil, and information about the alignment of our forces was extremely important. Although, it is possible that they had this information before the interrogation of Vlasov.

The Germans offered him cooperation - he agreed. He collaborated with Himmler, Goering, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, and various senior Abwehr and Gestapo officials. The Germans treated Vlasov badly: Himmler in his circle spoke with contempt about him, calling him "a pig who had run away and was a fool." But Hitler did not even want to meet with him. Vlasov said this: "Let him up to his neck in the mud, but be the master!" Whatever you say, he really spent the rest of his life up his neck in the mud.

In Germany, Vlasov organized the Russian Liberation Army on the basis of previously created “Russian battalions”, consisting of Russian prisoners of war recruited to serve the Germans. It should be noted that already in 1942 these units of official German propaganda were referred to as “battalions of the ROA” and were used in battles with the Red Army and partisans. But, it’s true, German machine guns were placed behind these units.

But this does not mean at all that the Vlasovites were innocent victims of a military tragedy. From May to October 1943, in the Mogilev and Minsk regions, as witnesses showed during the trial, the 636th battalion, which was part of the 707th regiment of the Nazi army, was atrocious. He participated in the struggle against partisans, robberies and executions of civilians, the destruction of entire settlements. since September 1942 the personnel of the 629th battalion of the ROA carried out punitive operations against partisans in the Smolensk and Sumy regions. In the summer of 1943 The battalion took part in the complete destruction of the villages of Berezovka, Lesnoye, Staraya and Novaya Guta, Glubokoe Sumy region. Dozens of settlements were destroyed in Belarus. And there are plenty of such examples.

Vlasov managed to form only 2 divisions. The first division had twenty thousand people. The second was formed only by April 1945. In addition to these units, two fighter units of 300 people were formed. There were also two volunteer detachments under the command of the white emigrant Sakharov, deployed from Denmark. Vlasov placed special hopes on a fighter group of 50 selected soldiers and officers, mainly the general guard.

“Vlasov was proud of the actions of this group,” his chief of staff Trukhin showed during the investigation, “promised to show the Germans how to deal with the tanks of the Red Army and how the Vlasovites can do this.”

Vlasov tried to persuade other captured Soviet generals to the same activities on the instructions of the Germans. Here is his own testimony from the testimony in court: “In December 1942. Shtrikfeldt arranged a meeting for me in the propaganda department with Lieutenant General Ponedelin, the former 12th commander. In a conversation with Ponedelin, my proposal flatly refused to participate in the creation of the Russian Volunteer Army ... Then I met with Major General Snegov, a former commander of the 8th Rifle Corps of the Red Army, who also did not agree to take part in my ongoing work ... After that, Shtrikfeldt drove me to one of the prisoners of war camps where I met with Lieutenant General Lukin, the former commander of the 19th Army, whose leg was amputated after being wounded and the law was not valid I am a hand. Alone with me, he said that he did not believe the Germans, would not serve with them, and rejected my offer. Having failed in my conversations with Ponedelin, Snegov and Lukin, I did not turn to any of the prisoners of war generals anymore ... ”

Vlasov also helped the Germans in organizing the defense: the writer E. M. Rzhevskaya told me that while analyzing the diaries of Goebbels, one of the top leaders of Nazi Germany, who was appointed commandant of the Berlin defense at the end of the war, she found a curious entry. Goebbels wrote about the meeting with Vlasov, whom he asked to advise on the organization of the defense of Berlin, taking into account the experience of the defense of Kiev and Moscow.

While in Germany, Vlasov developed a program with a new state system for his real homeland. He offered democracy for our country in return for socialism. As Vlasov himself wrote, with the help of Germany, he already wanted to begin building the rule of law, reunite Russia with the countries of Europe, dropping Stalin’s “iron curtain”: “... One choice - either the European family of free, equal peoples, or slavery under the rule of Stalin . ”

Having shown himself on the fronts of the civil war, Andrei Vlasov quickly climbed the army career ladder. However, he occupied mainly staff, formal positions and was far from applied military science.

In 1929, Vlasov graduated from the Higher Army Command Course "Shot". In 1930 he joined the CPSU (b). In 1935 he became a student of the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze. Information on the fate of Vlasov in the late 1930s varies among historians. According to one version, Vlasov was a member of the tribunal of the Leningrad and Kiev military districts and was directly involved in the Stalinist “purge” of senior command personnel. Historians agree on one thing: in the fall of 1938, Vlasov was sent to China to work as part of a group of military advisers under Chiang Kai-shek. During this period, Vlasov proved himself to be a skilled hoaxer.

According to him, the Chinese side reacted with great reverence to him, Vlasov even claimed that before leaving Chiang Kai-shek personally awarded Vlasov the Order of the Golden Dragon, and his wife Chiang Kai-shek gave him a watch. Upon arrival in the Soviet Union, both of them, as Vlasov recounted, were taken from him. However, the version of Vlasov is at odds with the real state of things. In the customs declarations of that time there is not a word about the order or the clock. Moreover, such an order did not exist in nature. Vlasov himself carefully invented a story. In fact, during his stay in China, the hoax attache was more than once seen in the spirits of alcohol and caught in connections with young girls.

Exit from the environment

In the late 30s, he began to head the division (in 1939, Vlasov received the post of division commander of the Kiev Special Military District).

Thanks to his commanding and leadership qualities in September 1940, his division was awarded the Red Banner.
  During World War II, Andrei Vlasov began to command the 37th Army. His army fell into a fascist encirclement near Kiev. In those days, more than half a million soldiers died, but Vlasov managed to get through the environment. He passed through the Vlasov circle not alone, but with his mistress. They changed into simple peasant clothes and managed to cross the front line. The general left his army.

Further, Vlasov receives an appointment to the Western Front, where he began to lead the 20th Army. The myth arose that, having only 15 tanks, the Vlasov units stopped the army of Walter Model in the Moscow suburb of Solnechegorsk, and drove the Germans 100 kilometers away, freeing up three cities. In the newspapers of that time, General Vlasov was called only "the savior of Moscow" and put on a par with George Zhukov. On the instructions of the Main Political Administration, a book is written about Vlasov, entitled "Stalin's Commander." In fact, Vlasov spent all this time in the hospital, where he received orders for his signature. No one saw the general on the battlefields, but a propaganda figure was made of him. While other military leaders were at the front, Vlasov gave an interview about his heroism and devotion to his homeland. Khrushchev actively promoted General Vlasov, which, in fact, explains his rapid military career. Stalin himself respected General Vlasov, and considered him a very talented strategist and commander.

Last operation

Not everyone liked such successes, so Andrei Vlasov managed to acquire numerous rivals and envious people. For example, K.A. Meretskov, who commanded the Volkhov Front in 1942, suggested that Stalin send Vlasov to save the 2nd shock army, since he believed that only he could solve this difficult task instead of the wounded Krylov. In fact, Meretskov understood that the situation there was hopeless. Vlasov arrived at the scene and made several attempts to break through the enemy’s ring, but to no avail, since the soldiers were too exhausted. Realizing the complexity of the situation, he orders the fighters to retreat in small groups and move towards Staraya Russa to join the Luga Party. He periodically managed to break through the enemy’s ring, but the German military stationed on the edges shot our soldiers when they tried to break through, in this small corridor (it was only 300 - 400 meters).

Then he moved with a small group towards Chudov. His path was difficult, as he was hunted not only by the German military, but also by the NKVD detachment led by Sazonov. Andrei Vlasov was captured in July 1942. There are several versions of how exactly this happened.

The German military leadership offered him cooperation, to which he agrees (collaborated with Goering, Himmler, Ribbentrop, Goebbels) and other senior Gestapo and Abwehr officials. The Germans did not treat Andrei Vlasov very well, they called him a runaway pig, despised. Even Hitler did not want to meet with him.

From the Editor:

Every year on May 9, our country celebrates Victory Day and pays tribute to the valiant defenders of the Fatherland - the living and the dead. But it turns out, far from everyone who should be remembered with a kind word, we remember and know. The lies of totalitarian ideology have been creating myths for many years. Myths that became true for several generations of Soviet people. But sooner or later the truth becomes known. People, as a rule, are in no hurry to part with myths. It’s more convenient and familiar ... Here is one of the stories about how a national hero, a favorite of power, "became a traitor." This story happened with the fighting Lieutenant General of the Red Army Andrei Vlasov.

Who are you, General Vlasov?

So, the fall of 1941. The Germans are attacking Kiev. However, they cannot take the city. The defense has been greatly strengthened. And it is headed by forty-year-old Major General of the Red Army, the commander of the 37th Army Andrei Vlasov. The personality in the army is legendary. Traveled all the way

-   from private to general. He passed a civil war, graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theological Seminary, and studied at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army. Friend of Michael Blucher. Before the war, Andrei Vlasov, then still a colonel, was sent to China by military advisers to Chiang Kai-shek. He received the award of the Golden Dragon Order and a gold watch, which aroused the envy of the general general of the Red Army. However, Vlasov did not rejoice for long. Upon returning home, at the Alma-Ata customs, the order itself, as well as other generous gifts of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, were seized by the NKVD ...

Returning home, Vlasov quickly received general stars and appointment to the 99th infantry division, famous for its backwardness. A year later, in 1941, the division was recognized as the best in the Red Army and the first among the units was awarded the Order of the Battle Red Banner. Immediately after this, on the orders of the People's Commissar of Defense, Vlasov took command of one of the four created fur corps. Headed by a general, was stationed in Lviv and practically one of the very first of the Red Army units entered the fighting. Even Soviet historians were forced to admit that the Germans "got their first shot", namely from the mechanized corps of General Vlasov. However, the forces were unequal, and the Red Army retreated to Kiev. It was here that Joseph Stalin, shocked by the courage and ability of Vlasov to fight, ordered the general to assemble the retreating units in Kiev, form the 37th army and defend Kiev. So, Kiev, September-August 1941. There are fierce battles near Kiev. German troops suffer enormous losses. In Kiev ... trams run. Nevertheless, the notorious Georgy Zhukov insists on the surrender of Kiev to the attacking Germans. After a short internal “disassembly”, Joseph Stalin gives the order: “Leave Kiev.” It is not known why this order was received by Vlasov’s headquarters last. The story is silent about this. However, according to some as yet unconfirmed reports, this was revenge on the obstinate general. Revenge is none other than Army General Georgy Zhukov. Indeed, more recently, a few weeks ago, Zhukov, inspecting the positions of the 37th army, came to Vlasov and wanted to stay overnight. Vlasov, knowing the nature of Zhukov, decided to joke and offered Zhukov the best dugout, warning of night shelling. According to eyewitnesses, the army general changed after these words in person and hastened to retire from positions. Clearly, the officers who were present at the same time said who was willing to turn their heads ... On the night of September 19, almost undestructed Kiev was abandoned by the Soviet troops. Later we all learned that 600,000 troops had got into the "Kiev boiler" by Zhukov’s efforts. The only one who, with minimal losses, withdrew his army from the encirclement was “Andrei Vlasov, who had not received an order to leave.” Vlasov, who had left the Kiev encirclement for almost a month, caught a cold and ended up in a hospital with a diagnosis of middle ear inflammation. However, after a telephone conversation with Stalin, the general immediately left for Moscow. The role of General Vlasov in protecting the capital is described in the article “Failure of the German plan to encircle and capture Moscow” in the newspapers “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “Izvestia” and “Pravda” dated 13. 12.1941. Moreover, the general’s troops are called the “savior of Moscow”. And in the "Reference to Commander of the Army Comrade Vlasova A. A. ”, dated 24.2.1942 and signed by the deputy. Head human resources department of the NPO of the Human Resources Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) Zhukov and We read by the sector of the Human Resources Department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Frolov: “In his work as commander of a regiment from 1937 to 1938 and in his work as commander of an infantry division from 1939 to 1941, Vlasov is certified to be fully developed, well trained in operational tactical terms. commander. ”(Military History Journal, 1993, N. 3, pp. 9-10.). This has never happened in the history of the Red Army: possessing only 15 tanks, General Vlasov stopped the army of Walter Model in the Moscow suburb of Solnechegorsk and drove off the Germans, who were already preparing for the parade on Moscow's Red Square 100 kilometers away, freeing up three cities ... There was something Get the nickname "Savior of Moscow." After the battle of Moscow, the general was appointed deputy commander of the Volkhov Front.

What remains of the Sovinformburo reports?

-   General Andrei Vlasov, savior of Moscow.

One can only imagine that the battle general changed his mind in

« Douglas

»,   startled by the tears of the German anti-aircraft guns, and who knows, be the German anti-aircraft gunners more fortunate, and bring down this

« Douglas

Whatever grimace history made ... And now we would not have had the heroically dead Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General Andrei Andreevich Vlasov. According to the existing, I emphasize, information that has not yet been confirmed, a presentation on Vlasov was lying on Stalin’s table. And the Supreme Commander even signed it ... The official propaganda presents further events as follows: traitor general A. Vlasov voluntarily surrendered. With all the ensuing consequences ... But few still know that when the fate of the Second Shock became apparent, Stalin sent a plane for Vlasov. Indeed, the general was his favorite! But Andrei Andreyevich has already made his choice. And he refused to evacuate, sending the wounded on the plane. Eyewitnesses of this case say that the general threw through his teeth

« Which commander is throwing his army to perdition?

The fact that Vlasov refused to leave virtually starving due to criminal errors of the High Command of the fighters of the 2nd Shock Army and fly away, saving his life, there is evidence of eyewitnesses. And not the Germans, but the Russians, who went through the horrors of the German and then Stalinist camps and despite this, did not blame Vlasov for treason. General Vlasov with a handful of fighters decided to break through to his ...

Captivity

-   armed local residents, led by a church headman, decided to buy the Germans' location at the cost of general stars. On the same night, General Andrei Vlasov and the soldiers accompanying him were transferred to regular German troops. They say that before this the general was badly beaten. Notice your ...

One of the Krasnoarmeytsev, who accompanied Vlasov, then testified to the SMERSHAa investigators: “When we were handed over to the Germans, the technotels shot everyone without talking. The general stepped forward and said: “Do not shoot! Yageneral Vlasov. My people are unarmed! "" Here is the story of "voluntary withdrawal." By the way, from June to December 1941, 3.8 million Soviet troops fell into German captivity, in 1942 more than a million, total of about 5.2 million people will be conquered.

Apot was a concentration camp near Vinnitsa, where senior officers of interest to the Germans were held, prominent commissars and generals. A lot of the Soviet press wrote that Vlasov got scared, lost control of himself, saved his life. Documents state the opposite.

Here are excerpts from official German and personal documents that after the war ended up in SMERSH. They characterize Vlasov from the other side’s point of view. These are documentary evidence of Nazi leaders who can hardly be suspected of sympathizing with the Soviet general, whose efforts destroyed thousands of German soldiers near Kiev and Moscow.

So, the adviser to the German embassy in Moscow, Hilger, in the protocol of interrogation of the captured General Vlasov on August 8, 1942. briefly described him: “He gives the impression of a strong and direct personality. His judgments are calm and balanced ”(Archive of the Institute of Military History of the Moscow Region, d. 43, l. 57.).

Avot view of Goebbels general. Having met Vlasov on March 1, 1945, he wrote down in his diary: “General Vlasov is a highly intelligent and energetic Russian military leader; he made a very deep impression on me ”(Goebbels J. Recent Entries. Smolensk, 1993, p. 57).

Vlasov’s attitude towards the vrodeba is clear. Maybe the people who surrounded him were the last scumbags and idlers who were just waiting for the start of the war to cross the Germans. Annette, itut documents do not give rise to doubt.

... and the officers who joined him

The closest associates of General Vlasov were highly professional military leaders who at different times were marked by high awards of the Soviet government for their professional activities. So, Major General V. F. Malyshkin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner with the medal “XXlet of the Red Army”; Major General F. I. Trukhin - Order of the Red Banner with the medal “XXlet of the Red Army”; Zhilenkov G. N, secretary of the Rostokinsky district committee of the CPSU (B.), Moscow. - Order of the Red Banner of Labor ( Military historical  Journal, 1993, N. 2, p. 9, 12.). Colonel Maltsev M.A. (ROA Major General) - Commander Air forcekONR forces, was at all times instructor pilot  the legendary Valery Chkalov (“Voice of the Crimea”, 1944, N. 27. Afterword of the editors.).

Colonel A.G. Aldan (Neryanin), the Chief of Staff of the General Staff of the Soviet Union, won high praise for the graduation from the General Staff from the Academy in 1939. The then Chief of General Staff, Army General Shaposhnikov, called him one of the brilliant officers of the course, the only one who graduated from the Academy with excellent marks. It is hard to imagine that they were all cowards who had left the service of the Knights for the sake of saving their own lives. Generals F. And Trukhin, G. N. Zhilenkov, A. A. Vlasov, V. F. Malyshkin E. Zakupny during the signing ceremony of the KONR manifesto. Prague, November 14, 1944.

If Vlasov is innocent, then who?

General Vlasov- Hitler Kaput ?!

Back to Andrei Vlasov. So the military general calmed down outside the German captivity? Facts are told by a friend. It was possible, of course, to provoke the guard by automatically turning up the crap, one could raise a rebellion against the Wiemer, kill a couple of dozen guards, flee with them and ... get suddenly camps — this time Stalin's. It was possible to show unwavering beliefs and ... turn into an ice block. Vlasov did not experience any particular fear of the Germans. Once the "guards" of the concentration camp guards decided to arrange a "parade" of captive Red Army men and decided to put Vlasov at the head of the column. The general refused this honor, and several of the "organizers" of the parade were sent by the general to a deep knockout. Well, atut and camp commander Nashum arrived.

The general, who was always distinguished by originality and non-standard decisions, decided to act differently. For a whole year (!) He persuaded the Germans of their loyalty. Azatem vmart and aprele 1943 Vlasov makes two trips to the Smolensk and Pskov regions, and criticizes ... German politics in front of large audiences, makes sure that the liberation movement resonates with the public.

Nose "shameless" speech scared Nazi sends him under house arrest. The first attempt ended in complete collapse. The general was eager for battle, sometimes committing reckless actions.

The all-seeing eye of the NKVD?

Itut something happened. The Soviet intelligence came out general. Someone named Melenty Zykov appeared in his entourage, who held the position of division commissioner in the Red Army. The person is bright and ... mysterious. Generator he edited two newspapers ....

It is still not known for certain whether this man was the one whom he betrayed himself. Only a year ago, circumstances “surfaced” that could turn over all ideas about the “General Vlasov case”. Zykov was born in Dnepropetrovsk, a journalist, worked in Central Asia, then in Izvestia with Bukharin. He was married to the daughters of Lenin's comrade-in-arms, the People's Commissar of Education Andrei Bubnov, after being arrested in 37, was arrested. Shortly before, he was released (!) And called on to serve in the army of the battalion commissar (!).

Captured near Bataysk in the summer of 42, being the commissar of a rifle division, whose numbers he never named. They met SVlasov in the Vvinnytsia camp, where they contained Soviet officers especially interesting for the Wehrmacht. From there, Zykov was brought to Berlin by order of Goebbels himself.

The stars and commissioners of distinction remained unsympathetic in the tunic delivered to the administration of military propaganda Zykov. Melenty Zykov became the general’s closest adviser, although he received only the rank of captain of the WROA.

There is reason to believe that it was Zykov who was the Soviet intelligence agent. The reasons are very significant. Melenty Zykov was very actively in contact with the highest German officers, who, as it turned out, were preparing the assassination of Adolf Hitler. For this, they paid. It remains a mystery of what happened on a June day in 1944, when Rassndorf was called to the telephone in the village. Captain ROA Zykov came out from home, got into the car and ... disappeared.

According to one version, Zykov was kidnapped by the Gestapo, who uncovered an attempt on Hitler, and then shot in Sachsenhausen. A strange circumstance, Vlasov himself was not very worried about Zykov’s loss, which suggests the existence of a plan for Zykov’s transition to an illegal position, that is, returning home. In addition, in 1945-46, after the arrest of Vlasov, SMERSH was very actively searching for Zykov’s tracks, and so actively that there was an impression of deliberate sweeping of the tracks. When in the mid-nineties in the FSB archives they tried to find the criminal case of Melenty Zykov of 1937, the attempt was unsuccessful. Strange, right? Indeed, all the other documents of Zykov, including the reader form in the library, and the registration card in the military archive, were in place.

General's family

Another significant circumstance indirectly confirming Vlasov’s cooperation with Soviet intelligence. Usually the relatives of the “traitors to the Motherland,” especially those occupying a social position at the level of General Vlasov, were subjected to severe repression. As a rule, they were destroyed in the GULAG.

In the given situation, everything was a waste of additional turnover. For the past decades, Nisoviet, low-Western journalists have been unable to obtain information that shed light on the fate of the family of the general. Only recently it became clear that the first wife of Vlasov, Anna Mikhailovna, who was arrested in 1942, after serving 5 years in a Nizhny Novgorod prison a few years ago, lived in the city of Balakhna. The second wife, Agnes Pavlovna, whose marriage the general concluded in 1941, lived and worked as a doctor in the Brest Regional dermatovenerologic  Dispensary, Died two years ago, Asyn, who has achieved a lot of this life, lives and works in Samara.

The second son, illegitimate, lives and works in Saint Petersburg. At the same time, he denies all kinship with the general. Unogo grows up a son, very similar to a nadad ... His illegitimate daughter, grandchildren and great-grandchildren also live there. One outlaw, a promising officer of the Russian fleet, does not even imagine who his grandfather was. Here you have a decision after that, were General Vlasov a “traitor to the Motherland”.

Open Speech Against Stalin

Six months after the disappearance of Zykov, on November 14, 1944, Vlasov proclaims in Prague the manifesto of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. Its main provisions: the overthrow of the Stalinist regime and the return to the peoples of the rights they won during the 1917 revolution, the conclusion of an honorable peace with Germany, the creation of a new free statehood in Russia, “approval national labor  system ”,“ comprehensive development of international cooperation ”,“ liquidation of forced labor ”,“ liquidation of collective farms ”,“ granting the intelligentsia the right to freely create ”. Not true, the very familiar demands proclaimed by the political leaders of the past two decades.

What is the betrayal of the motherland? Of Soviet citizens in Germany, hundreds of thousands of applications for military service are received by the CONCER.

Star…

On January 28, 1945, General Vlasov assumed command of the KONR Armed Forces, which the Germans allowed at the level of three divisions, one spare brigade, two squadrons of aviation and an officer school, about 50 thousand people in total. At that moment, these military units were still not sufficiently armed.

Lieutenant general  A. Vlasov and representatives of the German command inspect one of the Russian battalions in the army group "North", May 1943. In the foreground, a Russian non-commissioned officer (deputy platoon commander) with the spogons and nets of the eastern troops, introduced in August 1942.

The war was ending. The Germans were already under-general Vlasov, they were saving their skin. On February 9 and April 14, 1945, the only Germans forced the participation of the “Vlasovites” in the battles on the Eastern Front. For the first time, several hundred Red Army soldiers cross over to Vlasov’s side. The second is fundamentally changing some views of the official of the war.

On May 6, 1945, an anti-Hitler uprising broke out in Prague ... I called upon the Czechs who rebelled, and Prague entered ... The first division of the army of General Vlasov. It enters into battle with the armed armed marshes of SSivermacht units, captures the airport, where fresh German units arrive, and frees the city. Czechs rejoice. Avesma eminent commanders of the already Soviet army are beside themselves with an outrageous outrage. Well, again this is Vlasov's upstart!

Away, strange and terrifying events began. KVlasov is visited by those who prayed for help yesterday, and will ask the general ... to leave Prague, because Russian friends are unhappy. IVlasov gives the command about waste. However, the walkers are unsaved, they were shot ... by the Czechs themselves. Incidentally, the help of uVlasov was requested by a non-group of impostors, the Aludi, who carried out the decision of the highest body of the Czechoslovak Republic.

... And the death of General Vlasov

But this is already unsafe for the general, colonel General  Victor Abakumov, the head of SMERSH gave the command to Vlasov to detain. SMERShevtsy took under a peak. On May 12, 1945, the troops of General Vlasov were squeezed between the American and Soviet forces of southwestern Bohemia. The Vlasovites, who fell into the hands of the Red Army, are shot on the spot ... According to the official version, the general himself was captured and arrested by a special reconnaissance group that stopped the convoy of the first division of the ROA and SMERSH. However, there are at least four versions of how Vlasov was in the rear of the Soviet troops. We know already that the first one is one more, compiled on the basis of eyewitness accounts. Indeed, General Vlasov was in the very same ROA column.

Only now he was hiding on the floor in full of Willis, as claimed by Captain Yakushov, who allegedly took part in this operation. The general sat quietly in the car. The car was not the Willis at all. Moreover, this same car was of such a size that the general simply could not fit two meters tall, wrapped in a carpet ... There was no sort of lightning attack by the scouts. They (the scouts), dressed in a slender uniform, were quietly waiting on the sidelines when Vlasov’s car came to take off. When the car slowed down, the senior of the group saluted the general and invited him to leave the machine. Is that how they meet traitors?

And then the fun began. There is evidence of the military prosecutor of the tank division, which brought Andrei Vlasov. This man was the first to meet the general after his arrival at the location of the Soviet troops. He claims that the general was dressed in ... the general uniform of the Red Army (old model), with insignia and orders. A stunned lawyer did not find anything better than asking the general to present documents. What he did, having demonstrated to the prosecutor the checkbook of the commanding staff of the Red Army, the identity card of the General of the Red Army No. 431 of February 13, 1941. and party ticket of a member of the CPSU (b) No. 2123998

-   all in the name of Vlasov Andrey Andreevich ...

Moreover, the prosecutor claims that the day before Vlasov’s arrival in the division, an unthinkable number of army bosses came in and did not even think of showing any hostility or hostility to the general. Moreover, a joint dinner was organized. On the same day, the general was transported to Moscow by transport plane. Interestingly, this is how traitors are met? Further, very little is known. Vlasov is located in Lefortovo. “Prisoner No. 32” was the name of the general in prison. This prison belongs to SMERSH, inikto, even Beria and Stalin, has no right to enter there. Inevitably - Victor Abakumov knew his business well. Why then I paid, but later. The investigation lasted more than a year. Stalin, maybe non-Stalin at all, thought what to do as a sopalny general. To build a wrang national hero? It is impossible: the military general sat quietly, spoke a lot. Retired employees of the NKVD say that Andrei Vlasov bargained for a long time: repent, they say, before the people and drive. Admit the mistakes. Forgive. Maybe ... They say that it was then that Vlasov met again with Melenty Zykov ...

Nogeneral was consistent in all his actions, as when he didn’t put the fighters of the Second Shock to die, as when he had abandoned his ROA in Czech Republic. Lieutenant general  Of the Red Army, the holder of the orders of Lenin and the Battle of the Red Banner made his last choice ...

August 2, 1946 TASS official report published in all central newspapers: August 1, 1946 lieutenant general  Red Army Vlasov A.A. and 11 of his associates were hanged. Stalin until the end was cruel. After all, there is no more shameful death for officers than a gallows. Here are their surnames: Major General of the Red Army, Malyshkin V. F., Zhilenkov G. N., Major General of the Red Army, Trukhin F. I, Major General of the Red Army, Zakutniy D. E, Major General of the Red Army, Annunciation I. A, Colonel of the Red Army, Meander M. A, Colonel of the USSR Air Force Maltsev M. A, Colonel of the Red Army Red Army Bunyachenko S. K, Colonel of the Red Army Red Army Zverev G. A, Major General of the Red Army Red Army Korbukov D. D. Sub-Colonel of the Red Army Red Army Shatov N. S. It is not known where the bodies of officers are buried. SMERSH was able to keep his secrets.

Excuse us, Andrey Andreyevich!

There is even evidence that Lavrenty Beria "ventilated the situation" therefore the issue.

IVlasov was an excellent candidate to conduct these negotiations. Why? To do this, look at the pre-war career of Andrei Vlasov. There are comedicating conclusions. Back in 1937, Colonel Vlasov was appointed head of the second Division of the headquarters of the Leningrad Military District. Translating civilian language, this means that the brave Colonel Vlasov answered the whole KGB work of the district. Repression broke out. Ipolkovnik Vlasov, who received the first pseudonym “Volkov,” was ... safely sent by an adviser to the much-mentioned Chiang Kai-shek ... Further, if you read between the lines of the memoirs of participants in those events, you come to the conclusion that there was someone else working in China ... Colonel Volkov, the Soviet intelligence officer.

It was he who, in some other way, made friendship with Snemetsky diplomats, took them to restaurants, watered vodka of a fainting state, and talked for a long, long time. It’s not known, but the ordinary Russian colonel, who knows what’s going on in the country, that people were arrested only on the street, was explained to foreigners how to get into the Alexander Garden. Where is that Sorge of this by the attempts of undercover work in Japan. All the female agents of Sorge couldn’t deliver information comparable to those of Chiang Kai-shek’s wife, whose Russian colonel was very close ... Colonel Vlasov’s serious work is indicated by his personal translator in China, who claims that Volkov ordered him to shoot him at the slightest danger.

Another argument. I saw the document with the stamp “Top Secret. Ex.№ 1 ”dated 1942, in which Vsevolod Merkulov reports to Joseph Stalin on the work to destroy traitor general  A. Vlasova. So Vlasov was hunted by more than 42 reconnaissance and sabotage groups with a total number of 1,600 people. Verify that in 1942 such a powerful organization as SMERSH could not “get” one general, even if he was well guarded. I do not believe. The conclusion is more than simple: Stalin, knowing full well the strength of the German special services, strongly convinced the Germans of the betrayal of the general.

Nonetheless simple were the Germans. Hitler Vlasov was so inappropriate. Novot of the anti-Hitler opposition Andrei Vlasov fell into the suit. Now it is not known what prevented Stalin from bringing the case to the end - only the situation is on the front, the roofing felts are too late and even the unsuccessful attempt of the nafurer. IS Stalin had to choose between the destruction of Vlasov or his abduction. Judging by everything, they stopped at the last. But ... This is the most Russian "but." The thing is that at the time of the “transition” of the general to the Germans of the USSR, there were three reconnaissance forces: the NKGB, SMERSH and the General Staff of the Red Army. These organizations competed fiercely with each other (remember this). IVlasov, judging by everything, worked at the GRU. Otherwise, how can it be explained that the general was brought to the Second Shock by Lavrenty Beria and Kliment Voroshilov. Interesting, right?

Further, the court on Vlasov ruled SMERSH and therefore did not allow anyone to do so. Even the trial was closed, although the severance of things, the trial of the traitor should be vowel and open. It is necessary to see Vlasov’s photos in vain — something awaiting eyes, as if asking: "For a long time, end the clowning." Nonesnal Vlasov Osvara special services. They executed him ... The people present at the same time claim that the general behaved with dignity.

The scandal began the next day after the execution, when Joseph Stalin saw fresh newspapers.

It turns out that SMERSH was to seek written permission from the military prosecutor and the GPU. They asked, and answered him: "Execution postpone additional orders." This letter of the day lies in the archives.

But Abakumov "did not see the answer." Why I paid. In1946: the year at the behest of Stalin, Viktor Abakumov was arrested. They say that Stalin visited him in prison and reminded him of General Vlasov. However, these are just rumors ...

By the way, there is no article in the indictment of Andrei Vlasov that incriminates treason. Only terrorism and counter-revolutionary activities. The article was published in abbreviations.

September 14, 1901 in one of the villages of the Nizhny Novgorod province was born Andrei Vlasov. He was destined to become the most scandalous military leader in Soviet history. The very name of the general became a household name, and each Soviet citizen who served with the Germans was called a Vlasovite.

Little is known about the early life of the future general. Andrei Vlasov was born in the Nizhny Novgorod village in 1901. His father, according to some reports, was a non-commissioned officer of long service. In others, an ordinary peasant. The family had 13 children, Andrei was the youngest of them. Nevertheless, with the help of his older brothers, he managed to study at the Nizhny Novgorod seminary. Then Vlasov studied at a local university as an agronomist, but only one course was unlearned. The Civil War broke out, and his education was interrupted by mobilization in the Red Army. And so began his army career.

In the Red Army, which lacked competent and educated people, Vlasov quickly made his way to the company commander, and then was transferred to staff work. He headed the headquarters of the regiment, then led the regimental school. He joined the party relatively late, only in 1930.

Vlasov was in good standing and was considered a competent commander. It is no coincidence that it was he who was sent to China in the late 1930s as part of a group of military advisers to Chiang Kai-shek. Moreover, for several months Vlasov was considered the main military adviser to the Chinese leader. At the end of 1939 he was recalled to the USSR and was appointed commander of the 99th division.

There Vlasov again proved himself to be the best. In just a few months, he managed to bring such an order that, according to the results of the exercises, she was recognized as the best in the Kiev military district and was especially noted by the highest authorities.

Vlasov also did not go unnoticed and was promoted to the commander of the mechanized corps, and also received the Order of Lenin. The corps was deployed in the Lviv region and was one of the first Soviet units to engage in hostilities with the Germans.

He established himself well in the first battles, and a month later Vlasov again went on the rise. He was urgently transferred to Kiev to command the 37th Army. It was formed from the remnants of units retreating from the west of the Ukrainian SSR, and the main task was not to allow the Germans to occupy Kiev.

The defense of Kiev ended in disaster. There were several armies in the cauldron. However, Vlasov managed to prove himself even here, units of the 37th army were able to break through the encirclement and reach the Soviet troops.

The general was recalled to Moscow, where he was entrusted with command of the 20th Army in the most important direction of the German strike - Moscow. Vlasov did not disappoint again, during the German offensive, the army managed to stop the 4th Göpner tank group at Krasnaya Polyana. And then go on the offensive, free Volokolamsk and go to Gzhatsk.

Lieutenant General Vlasov became a celebrity. His portrait, along with several other military leaders, was printed on the front pages of the largest Soviet newspapers as the most distinguished during the defense of Moscow.

The doomed

However, this popularity had a downside. Vlasov began to be perceived as a lifesaver, which in the end led to the inglorious end. In the spring of 1942, the 2nd shock army wedged into German defense, occupying the Luban ledge. It was planned to be used as a bridgehead for a further attack on Leningrad. However, the Germans took advantage of favorable conditions and closed the encirclement in the area of \u200b\u200bMyasniy Bor. The supply of the army became impossible. The headquarters ordered the army to withdraw. In the area of \u200b\u200bMyasniy Bor, it was possible to break through the corridor for a short time, along which several parts came out, but then the Germans closed it again.

Vlasov at that time held the post of deputy commander of the Volkhov Front Meretskov, and as part of the military commission was sent to the army to assess the situation on the spot. The situation in the army was very difficult, there was neither food nor ammunition, it was also not possible to organize its supply. In addition, the army suffered very large losses in battle. In fact, the 2nd shock was doomed.

By this time, the commander of the Army Fangs was seriously ill, and he had to be evacuated to the rear by plane. The question arose about the new commander. Vlasov proposed to Meretskov the candidacy of the chief of staff of the army Vinogradov. He himself did not want to take responsibility for the dying army. However, Meretskov appointed him precisely. In this case, his track record played against Vlasov. He already had a successful experience of breaking through the environment, and also established himself well near Moscow. If someone could save a dying army, then only a person with such experience.

However, a miracle did not happen. Until the end of June, with the support of the 59th Army, desperate attempts were made to break out of the encirclement. On June 22, they managed to break through a 400-meter corridor for several hours, along which some of the wounded were carried out, but soon the Germans closed it.

On June 24, the last, desperate attempt to break through was made. The situation was very difficult, the army was starving for a long time, the soldiers ate all the horses and their own belts and still died from exhaustion, there were no more artillery shells, there was almost no equipment. The Germans, in turn, were hurricane shelling. After a failed attempt at a breakthrough, Vlasov gave the order to save himself, whoever could. Break into small groups of 3-5 people and try to secretly leave the environment.

What happened to Vlasov in the following weeks has not yet been established and is unlikely to ever be known. Most likely, he tried to get to the emergency command post, where food was stored. On the way, he went into the villages, posing as a village teacher and asking for food. On July 11, in the village of Tukhovezhi, he went into the house, which turned out to be the house of the village headman, who immediately handed over the uninvited guests to the Germans. Having laid a table in the bathhouse for them, he locked them and informed the Germans about it. Soon their patrol detained the general. In some sources, there are allegations that Vlasov deliberately intended to surrender to the Germans, but this is somewhat doubtful. To do this, it was not necessary to wander for two and a half weeks through the forests, hiding from patrols.

In captivity

Smolensk appeal "

The Smolensk appeal ", in which Vlasov called for joining his side in order to build a new Russia. It even contained some political points such as the abolition of collective farms. The German leadership approved the appeal, but saw it as a purely propaganda action. They wrote about it in the newspapers, also printed leaflets in Russian for casting onto Soviet territories.

The party leadership was completely indifferent to Vlasov. Hitler and Himmler did not care about the captive general, he did not interest them. The main lobbyists of Vlasov were the military, who may have seen in Vlasov a potential leader of the future puppet government, if any. At the initiative of field marshals von Kluge and von Kühler, Vlasov made several trips to the location of Army Group North and Center in the winter and spring of 1943. He not only met with prominent German military leaders, but also spoke to locals in the occupied territories and gave several interviews to collaborative newspapers.

However, the party did not like the military playing their game and trying to enter their territory. The Russian committee was dissolved, Vlasov was temporarily banned from speaking publicly, the military was made an suggestion. The Nazi party had no desire to turn Vlasov into anything more than a propaganda phantom.

Meanwhile, the activities of Vlasov became known in the USSR. Stalin was so indignant that he personally ruled the newspaper article "Who is Vlasov?" In this article, it was reported that Vlasov was an active Trotskyist who planned to sell Siberia to the Japanese, but was exposed on time. Unfortunately, the party took pity on Vlasov and forgave him, allowing him to lead the army. But as it turned out, even in the early days of the war he was recruited by the Germans, and then returned to Moscow, showed himself well for some time to avoid suspicion, and then specially led the army into the circle and finally ran to the Germans.

Vlasov was in a quandary. Moscow already learned about his activities, while in Germany he was in limbo. The party leadership, including Hitler, did not want to hear about the creation of a separate army, which the military sought. When Field Marshal Keitel tried to probe the soil, Hitler made it clear that he would not allow him to go beyond ordinary propaganda actions.

For the next year and a half, Vlasov became a party-goer. Patrons organized meetings with prominent figures who looked at the "Russian question" not as radically as the leaders. In the hope that, having secured their support, it would be possible to influence Hitler and Himmler at least indirectly, Vlasova even organized a marriage with the widow of the SS man.

But all that his patrons managed to achieve was the creation of a “propaganda school” in Dabendorf. For a larger party did not give permission.

Russian liberation army

heavi "down to the village cops who had nothing to do with the ROA.

However, at the beginning and middle of the war, the Germans created small detachments (usually the size of a company / battalion and very rarely a regiment), the so-called Eastern battalions / companies, which were often recruited for anti-partisan operations. A significant part of their personnel was later transferred to the ROA. For example, the former Soviet commissar Zhilenkov, before getting to Vlasov, held a prominent post in RNNA - the Russian National People's Army of several thousand people. Which just acted against the partisans in the occupied territories.

For some time, the RNNA was commanded by a former Soviet colonel Boyarsky, who later also became a person close to Vlasov. Most often, eastern battalions and companies were part of German divisions, under which German officers were created and controlled. The personnel of these units sometimes wore later used ROA cockades and stripes, which creates additional confusion. However, these units, which appeared even when Vlasov was a Soviet general, were subordinate to the Germans and Vlasov had no influence on them.

by the same Bolsheviks, only against collective farms. "Thus, we can summarize this confusing issue. The ROA did not operate in the occupied Soviet territories, but part of the personnel of this army previously managed to serve in the German eastern battalions in Soviet territories.

The combat path of the newly minted army was generally very short. For the five months of its existence, parts of the ROA only twice took part in battles with Soviet troops. Moreover, in the first case, this participation was extremely limited. In February 1945, three platoons of volunteers from the Dabendorf school took part in the battle on the side of the Germans with the 230th division of the Red Army.

And in early April, the 1st division of the ROA fought along with the Germans in the area of \u200b\u200bFurstenberg. After that, all parts of the ROA were assigned to the rear. Even in the face of an imminent end, the Nazi leadership did not trust the newly minted allies too much.

By and large, the ROA remained a propaganda, not a real fighting force. One battle-worthy division, which had only once taken part in hostilities, could hardly have exerted any influence on the course of the war except the propaganda one.

Arrest and execution

Vlasov expected to get to the location of the Americans, because he expected a new world war between the USSR and the USA. But he never managed to get to them. On May 12, 1945, on a tip-off, he was arrested by a Soviet patrol. However, the Americans would still have extradited him to the USSR. Firstly, he was a symbolic and familiar figure. Secondly, the ROA was not militarily any significant force, so even as a potential ally by the Americans in the event of a new war would not be considered. Thirdly, an agreement on the extradition of Soviet citizens was reached at a conference of the Allies, only a few managed to avoid this extradition.

Vlasov and all his associates from among Soviet citizens were delivered to Moscow. Initially, it was supposed to conduct an open process, but Abakumov, who supervised it, was afraid that the leak of the views of the defendants would cause any undesirable consequences in society, and offered to sort it out quietly. In the end, it was decided to hold a closed trial without any publications in the press. The final decision was made in the Politburo. Instead of an open trial of traitors on August 2, 1946, a mean note was given in Soviet newspapers that on the eve of a Soviet court verdict, Vlasov and his closest associates were found guilty of treason and executed.

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Evgeny Vlasov

Amorous affairs in the capital of the General of the Cossack troops of Russia Yevgeny Vlasov ended unsuccessfully. The attempt to find a girl for meetings without obligations on the dating site Mamba.ru ended in the usual theft.

Having met a pretty stranger who introduced herself as Alena, General Vlasov led her to a rented apartment in the capital. Then there was a night of love - according to the Cossack, very successful. But in the morning he had much less joy.

“Having woken up, the victim saw that the girl had left the apartment,” a police source in the Russian capital told reporters. - Together with her, money in the amount of 340 thousand rubles disappeared. The prostitute also took the documents of the victim with her - the certificate of the general of the Cossack troops of the Russian Federation and the passport of an American citizen in his name.

As it turned out, the “true Russian patriot” Yevgeny Vlasov moved to the USA for permanent residence back in 2010, and having passed the required period of time on the green card, he went through the naturalization process - obtaining American citizenship. It is worth noting that in its process, applicants must not only pass an exam on knowledge of the history and political system of the country, but also take an oath of allegiance to the United States, in which they promise to defend their new homeland to the last drop of blood.