At the beginning of the war this man was in the front ranks among the top commanders of the Soviet Army.He and eight other generals became the heroes of the Battle of Moscow.How did the story begins betrayal of General Vlasov?His personality is as legendary, and so mysterious.Until now, many of the facts related to his fate, remain controversial.
matter from the archives, or disputes decades
criminal case of Andrei Andreyevich Vlasov consists of thirty-two volumes.Sixty years of the history of betrayal of General Vlasov did not have access.She was in the KGB archives.But now it is no secrecy was born.So who was Andrei?The hero, a fighter with the Stalinist regime, or a traitor?
Andrew Born in 1901 in a peasant family.The main occupation was farming his parents.First, the future general attended the village school, then at the seminary.Passed Civil War.Then he disaccustomed at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army.If you follow all of his service, it may be noted that he was a man who is incredibly lucky.The history of betrayal of General Vlasov, in this case, of course, does not mean.
Highlights military career
In 1937 Andrey was appointed commander of 215 Infantry Regiment, which prokomandoval less than a year as early as April 1937, he was immediately appointed as assistant division commander.And from there I went to China.This is yet another success of Andrei Vlasov.There he served from 1938 to 1939. In China, if there were three groups of military experts.First - illegals, the second - is operating under the guise of the third - military specialists in the armed forces.
They worked at the same time as that of Mao Zedong and the troops at the Chiang Kai-shek.This part of the giant Asian continent, for which then fought all the intelligence world was so important for the Soviet Union, that intelligence has worked in both the opposing camps.Andrei was appointed advisor of Chiang Kai-shek in the Army.Next General Vlasov, the story of betrayal which today is a huge amount of controversy, again enters the lane luck.
Awards fortunate General
In November 1939 Vlasov was appointed commander of 99 Division in the Kiev Military District.In September 1940 there were held county inspection exercises.They spent the new Defense Commissar Timoshenko.The division has been declared the best in the Kiev district.
But Andrei was the best division commander, master training and education.And was introduced in the fall at the end of the school year for the Order of the Red Star.What happens next defies explanation.Because, despite all the orders and regulations, it awarded the Order of Lenin.
Two patron and political career
All of these events could be explained by another luck.But this is not true.Andrei great pains to create their positive image in the eyes of management.Start political career of Andrei Vlasov gave two people.This commander of the Kiev Military District and a member of Tymoshenko's military council first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev.They offered him the post of commander of the 37 army.
At the end of November 1940 Andrei Vlasov was waiting for the next certification.Preparing his next promotion to a higher position.How began the history of betrayal of General Vlasov?Why does a man with such a fate has become a dark spot in the history of the Soviet Union?
the outbreak of hostilities, or error management
war began.Despite stubborn resistance, the Red Army suffered serious defeats in major battles.Hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers taken prisoner by the Germans.Some of them come as volunteers in the German army, or political opinion, or in order to avoid starvation and death like millions of prisoners of Nazi concentration camps.
In Kiev boiler Germans killed more than six hundred thousand Soviet soldiers.Many of the front commander, chief of staff of the army were then shot.But Vlasov and sandals remain alive, and even the fate will bring them in the Battle of Moscow.In the archival documents written in those years, on August 23, due to an error made by the command of the Southwestern Front and the commander of the 37 Army of General Vlasov, the Germans managed to cross the Dnieper on its site.
death of the army, or the possibility of being taken prisoner
where Andrei falls for the first time in the environment, throwing their position and hastily trying to get out of it.What, in fact, destroying his army.What is surprising.Despite the complexity out of the environment, the general confidence was at the rear of the enemy.He could easily be captured.But, apparently, even the slightest opportunity to do so did not take advantage.The history of betrayal of General Vlasov ahead.
winter of 1941 German forces approached Moscow.Stalin declares a state of emergency.Commander of the 20th Army appoints Andrei Andreyevich.That Khrushchev and Tymoshenko offered Vlasov for the position.In the winter battle for Moscow disappears myth of the invincibility of the German army.Four Soviet fronts troops managed to inflict a crushing blow to the Germans first, over a hundred thousand Wehrmacht soldiers were killed or captured.His contribution to this victory made and 20 army led by General Vlasov.
New appointment and captured
Stalin Andrei Andreyevich raises to the rank of lieutenant general.So he becomes known among the troops.After the Battle of Moscow reaps fruit of glory.He was always lucky.There comes his finest hour, but every good fortune comes to an end.Now, the reader General Vlasov, the story of betrayal which crossed all previous achievements.
Gromyko became deputy commander of the 2 Shock Army, and then her head.During heavy bloody fighting, much of it dies in the woods.But those who wanted to get out of the environment, small groups could break through the front line.However, Vlasov deliberately stayed in the village.The next day, when the German patrol began to find out his identity, he suddenly introduced: Lieutenant General Vlasov, commander of 2 Shock Army.
subsequent fate and history of Andrei Vlasov.Anatomy of betrayal
After the capture Andrei falls into a special camp Propaganda Department in Vinnitsa, where he was running the German specialists.He accepted the offer amazingly fast Nazis to lead a non-existent Russian army ROA.In mid-1943 the Wehrmacht propaganda disseminated information that formed Russian Liberation Army and the new Russian government.This so-called "Smolensk manifesto" in which Vlasov promises to the Russian people and the democratic rights of freedom liberated from Stalin and Bolshevism in Russia.
spring of 1944, Andrei held under house arrest at his villa in Dahlem.He was sent to Hitler for a memorable trip to the occupied territories, where he showed too much independence.But November 14, 1944 was a day of triumph as a commander Andrei Vlasov ROA.At the official ceremony to mark the formation of Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, arrived entire political leadership of the Wehrmacht.The culmination of the event becomes a proclamation of the political program of the Committee.
last years of the war
think about anything while General Vlasov?The story of betrayal, Russia, and the people who will never forgive him for this act, did not frighten him?Does he believe in a German victory?The turn of 1944 and 1945 is marked by numerous events in Berlin.In them he chooses for his political goals of Soviet prisoners of war and osterbayterov.At the beginning of 1945 to meet with him, Goebbels and Himmler.
Then, on January 18, he signed a loan agreement between the Government of Germany and Russia.As if the final victory of the Germans is only a matter of time.In the spring of 1945 for the case of Germany is going very badly.In the west, advancing allies in the east, the Red Army does not leave any chance to win the Wehrmacht, taking one German city after another.So what could end for a man like General Vlasov, the story of betrayal?Epilogue it awaits the reader.
First Division, or the endless defeat
Andrei did not seem to notice events.For him, it seems, again, all is going well.February 10, he officially receives the first of its divisions, which are sent to check on the Eastern Front.The clashes there were short.Red Army can not be stopped.ROA soldiers fled, throwing position.The latest attempt to somehow rehabilitate itself in the war Vlasov launched in Prague.But there were defeated.
Fearing capture by Soviet forces, Vlasov with the Germans hastily leave Prague.Separate groups of surrendering to the Americans.Two days earlier, he did General Vlasov.Before Panzer Corps Fomin and Kryukov tasked to break into the base, where they hold Gromyko and his closest associates, seize them and deliver to Moscow.
then the Lubyanka during the year will go a consequence.Eleven officers and Vlasov himself, the story of betrayal is carefully studied by experts of the Lubyanka, July 30, 1946 sentenced to death by hanging on charges of treason.
