Confronting the communist regime with fascist forces, and later the liberal world has always been and is still a hot debate today.During the reign of Soviet power were rather ambiguous, especially the first, pre-war period.Facts of mass shootings, links, famine and total atmosphere of fear before the power of the forces of modern society categorically criticize this same regime, forgetting the positive aspects, exposing it to the devil paints and justifies anyone who has somehow maintained his opposition.Even if it was a comfortable opposition from abroad, or worse, cooperation with the Nazi regime.A prime example of the latter and one of the most controversial pages of the Great Patriotic War is Lokotskaya republic existed for some time in the occupied territories.
refuge collaborators or free zone?
Lokotskaya Republic arose in autumn 1941 in the Orel (now Bryansk) region, at a time when the forces of the Red Army were forced to retreat from these lands under the onslaught of the Blitzkrieg.Just the day before the settlement Elbow (capital neoplasms) entered Wehrmacht.These territories before the war were considered the most loyal to the Soviet power: the local population there was a significant number of former kulaks, and other citizens who had a grievance government.
In general, many occupied territories occupiers found their collaborators, of which formed refreshing policemen.However, the region allocated Lokotskaya initiative.Since there had formed local governments before the arrival of the Nazis, and even the last witness its full commitment to the invaders chose to leave such a formation as a small puppet state.
Note that Lokotskaya Republic for the Third Reich played an important role in that regard, that in fact was a sign advertising for the conquered peoples.It performs the same role as the posters calling to go to work in Germany and sulivshie all kinds of sweet life for refusing to resistance and cooperation with the leadership of the Reich.
Lokotsky district in its peak months - since the autumn of 1941 to the summer of 1943 - had more than half a million people.The Mayor was elected a former active member of the CPSU (b) Constantine Voskobojnik suddenly changed their ideological views.His deputy was another pre-war member of the Communist party, Bronislaw Kaminski.Last in the first few months of the puppet republic engaged in the creation of the famous RONA - Russian National Liberation Army.She subsequently involved in the fight against guerrillas, remaining loyal to their country, as well as punitive raids against the local population suspected of collaborating with the guerrillas and the shares kind of forced selection of food, livestock, and other utilities for the needs of the Wehrmacht.
During his nearly two-year existence of the Republic noted Lokotskaya daily executions of Jews and partisans, as well as their management clumsy attempts to present themselves as liberators and the prophets of the new Russia, free from the "red plague".This territorial formation fell with their owners, when in August 1943, after Stalingrad and Kursk Bulge, the Germans retreated to the west.
