Andrei Vlassov

Andrei Andreïevitch Vlassov (1900 - 1946), more commonly called Andrei Vlassov, is a Soviet general which joined with Hitler and fought in the rows of the Wehrmacht at the time of the Second world war.

Biography

General and hero of the Red Army

Wire of peasant, thirteenth child of his family, Andreï Vlassov was born in 1900 in the village from Lomakno, in the area of Gorki, in Russia. Wire of a tailor of village, it entered as raises free with the Séminaire of Nijni-Novgorod. At the eighteen years age, into full Russian Civil war, it engaged like private in a Régiment of the 2nd division of the Don of the Red Army and obtained there the rank of Capitaine at the time of the campaigns of Ukraine and the Crimea against the white Armées with Dénikine.

At the conclusion of the conflict it was named Major (or Commander) and professor of Tactique to the Military academy of Moscow, before receiving, with the rank of Colonel, the command of the 2nd regiment of fusiliers of division turkmene. Become member of the Communist party of the Soviet Union in 1930, it married in 1933 an young woman of a village close to its birthplace and which had just obtained its doctorate of medicine. When burst the Stalinist Purges of 1934 - 1935 against the marshal Toukhatchevski and the main leaders of the Red Army , it was used as chief of État-major with the 72e division as fusiliers. It is at that time that his wife, former girl of Koulak, left it in order not to compromise it with the eyes of the Soviet authorities. The fulgurating career of Vlassov at the end of the Années 1930 is explained by its unwavering support with the Stalinisme. It profited from the systematic purification of the veterans of the civil war.

In 1938, it is sent in China as a chief of staff of the general Tcherepanov, then as instructor with the Military academy of Chongqing, under the pseudonym of Volkhov . It is there that, according to its dires future, it was to become aware of the double game of Stalin: on a side, this one supported the Guomindang against the Japan board and other it did not maintain of them less relationship close with the internal adversaries of the nationalists, namely the communist of Mao Zedong. On its return, he sees himself entrusting the command of the 4th motorized body. Having received decorations of the Chinese nationalists, those “were confiscated to him” at the time of its return in Soviet Union.

In 1939 it accepted the command of the 99e division of fusiliers, one of the worst units of the Red Army. In a few months, Vlassov made of it a model division, “an exemplary troop of elite”, according to an article of the red daily newspaper Star .

Chief of the Army of national release Russian

In 1942, it is sent to break the seat of Leningrad but its operation fails and it is captured in July by the German troops . It passes then from Stalin to Hitler and states with the army of Germany Nazie her desire to make defection. Stalin had decided that any captive Soviet soldier would be regarded as deserter, and thus liable to the martial Cour and the capital punishment. Vlassov makes captive was thus already regarded as a “traitor”. According to another version of the facts, Vlassov would have been convinced by the Germans to join their camp It founds the Russian Committee of release and the Russian Army of release ( Russkaya Osvoboditel' naya Armiya ), of which he becomes commander-in-chief, with the task to help the German troops to fight the Red Army. Hitler granted only one confidence limited to Vlassov and authorized it to order two divisions armed only in the final stage with the conflict. It will be generally isolated direct confrontations with the Red Army. Some as Gustave Hilger pushed so that Hitler gives more latitude to Vlassov to bring to him more Russians deserting the Red Army, but did not succeed in being made hear. Racism anti Slavic of Führer as well as the purifications which rose from it did not really help to rejoin the Russians against Stalin.

A bitter failure

In the last days of the war, the troops of Vlassov, hoping to gain the favor of the Allies, were turned over against the German army by helping the rising of Prague. But the Allies américano - British refused to grant asylum to Vlassov. The general and his aide-de-camps were or captured or delivered by the Americans in badly defined circumstances, the members of the Russian Army of release all were delivered with women and children and off-set in Siberia, Vlassov and his generals (on a total of 11 officers of its army) were interned with the Loubianka with Moscow, tortured then judged with door-close and condemned for high treason to the Pendaison, the 1946.

Internal bond

Armed Vlassov

External bond

a biography of Andrei Vlassov

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