Monday, October 1, 2018

This Nazi army was made entirely of Soviet POWs

This Nazi army was made entirely of Soviet POWs

It's sometimes hard to remember that World War II wasn't actually a single, globe-spanning conflict. It was really about a dozen smaller conflicts that had all been openly fought (or at least simmering) in the months and years leading up to the German invasion of Poland - the moment most historians point to as the beginning of the war.

Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Army

Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Army

Most people know about the second World War and the battle the Soviet Union had fought against it's Nazi occupants, although very few know what happened between the front lines. What many don't know is that a large number of Ex-Soviet citizens joined the Axis in the hope of ridding their countries of the oppressive...

Andrei Vlasov, the Russian Liberation Army, and Operation Keelhaul: A Tragic Diplomatic and Humanitarian Debacle

Andrei Vlasov, the Russian Liberation Army, and Operation Keelhaul: A Tragic Diplomatic and Humanitarian Debacle

The aims of the Committee of Liberation of the Peoples of Russia are: the overthrow of Stalin's tyranny, the liberation of the peoples of Russia from the Bolshevik system, and the restitution of those rights to the peoples of Russia which they fought for and won in the people's revolution of 1917.