Thursday, June 1, 2017

Russian Liberation Army

They were largely recruited from pow camps (Stalin's active opposition to providing humanitarian aid for Soviet pows in Germany came in quite handy for the recruitment effort), and formed the Russian Liberation Army, a force led by former Red Army general Andrei Vlasov. The rla earned high praise from Heinrich Himmler himself for their fighting vigor in early 1945, but as the year progressed, the inevitable course of the war had become clear. The Soviet turncoats, being turncoats, figured they could turn those coats one more time and took over Prague. They fought their way through the German Wehrmacht in order to sorrunder  and asked them to pretty pretty please not return them to Russia.

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