WHO AND IN WHAT NUMBER OF THE PEOPLES OF THE USSR Fought ON THE SIDE OF FASCIST GERMANY Our opponents (and for me - enemies) along that front line in Novorossia, in defiance of our identification of them with genetic traitors - Bandera, cite some crazy numbers about a million, otherwise and two Russians who fought on the side of the Germans. Some agree to the point that this number of the Russian population of the USSR fought in the Vlasov army alone. Follow the content in the group. There will be a continuation of the topic below. I will display data on those who collaborated with the Nazis in percentage to the number of peoples mentioned below, according to the 1939 census. Very interesting data are obtained. And for Ukrainians as well. Almost ahead of the rest. And they were far ahead of the Russians in terms of the number of traitors. 3 times ahead. The vaunted Cossacks also turned out to be leaders in terms of traitors. In vain Kolya Kozitsyn is crucifying that they have always stood guard over the people. More often people were sold or robbed, as in Novorosiya now. Pleased Kazan Tatars, on last place by the number of collaborators. This was a revelation for me. But the Krymchaks are in the lead, the crests are far behind, having 4.6% compared to the Ukrainians, with their 0.9% of the population in 1939. I didn't expect anything else here. I know how massively they surrendered to the Germans in the Patriotic War. Not for beautiful eyes they were evicted from the Crimea. Russian, by the way, was 0.3% collaborating with the Germans. Sad descendants of Bandera and Shukhevych. And now on the topic of who sold the Motherland and how. And for how many pieces of silver. Even talking about two million Russians who fought against the Bolshevik regime (the essence is against their own people), here they probably count 700 thousand emigrants. For all that, not all of them were ethnic Russians. These figures are given for a reason - they are an argument for the assertion that the Great Patriotic War is the essence of the Second Civil War of the Russian people against the hated Stalin. What can be said here? If it really happened that a million Russians stood up under the tricolor banners and fought to the death against the Red Army for a free Russia, shoulder to shoulder with their German allies, then we would have no choice but to admit that, yes, the Great Patriotic War really became the Second Civil War for the Russian people. But was it so? To figure it out, one way or another, you should answer a few questions: how many were there, who were they, how did they get into the service, how and with whom did they fight, and what motivated them? WHO TO COUNT? Cooperation Soviet citizens with the occupiers took place in different forms, both in terms of the degree of voluntariness and the degree of involvement in the armed struggle - from the Baltic SS volunteers who fought fiercely near Narva to the Ostarbeiters forcibly driven to Germany. I believe that even the most stubborn anti-Stalinists will not be able to enlist the latter in the ranks of fighters against the Bolshevik regime. Usually, these ranks include those who received rations from the German military or police department, or who held weapons received from the hands of the Germans or pro-German local government. That is, to the maximum, potential fighters against the Bolsheviks fall into: foreign military units of the Wehrmacht and the SS; eastern security battalions; building parts of the Wehrmacht; auxiliary personnel of the Wehrmacht, they are also "our Ivans" or Hiwi (Hilfswilliger: "voluntary helpers"); auxiliary police units ("noise" - Schutzmannshaften); border guard; "Air defense assistants" mobilized to Germany through youth organizations HOW MANY THERE WAS? We will probably never know the exact numbers, since no one really considered them, but some estimates are available to us. A lower estimate can be obtained from the archives of the former NKVD - until March 1946, 283,000 "Vlasov" and other uniformed collaborators were transferred to the authorities. The estimate from above can probably be taken from the works of Drobyazko, which serve as the main source of figures for the proponents of the "Second Civil" version. According to his calculations (whose method, unfortunately, he does not disclose), the following passed through the Wehrmacht, the SS and various pro-German paramilitary and police formations during the war years: 250,000 Ukrainians 70,000 Belarusians 70,000 Cossacks 150,000 Latvians 90,000 Estonians 50,000 Lithuanians 70,000 Central Asians 12,000 Volga Tatars Crimean Tatars 7,000 Kalmyks 40,000 Azerbaijanis 25,000 Georgians 20,000 Armenians 30,000 North Caucasian nationalities German uniform, he is estimated at 1.2 million, then the Russians (excluding the Cossacks) are left with about 310,000 people. There are, of course, other calculations that give a smaller total number, but let's not waste time on trifles, let's take Drobyazko's estimate from above as the basis for further reasoning. WHO WERE THEY? Hiwi and soldiers of the construction battalions can hardly be considered civil war fighters. Of course, their work freed up for the front German soldiers, but exactly the same applies to the "ostarbeiters". Sometimes the hiwi were given weapons and fought alongside the Germans, but such incidents are described in the combat logs of the units more as a curiosity than as mass phenomenon. It is interesting to calculate how many were those who actually held weapons in their hands. The number of hiwis at the end of the war by Drobyazko gives about 675,000, if you add construction parts and take into account the loss during the war, then I think we will not be much mistaken in assuming that this category covers about 700-750,000 people from total 1.2 million. This is consistent with the proportion of non-combatants among Caucasian peoples, in the calculation presented by the headquarters of the eastern troops at the end of the war. According to him, out of a total of 102,000 Caucasians who passed through the Wehrmacht and the SS, 55,000 served in the legions, Luftwaffe and SS and 47,000 in hiwi and construction units. It must be taken into account that the proportion of Caucasians enrolled in combat units was higher than the proportion of Slavs. So, out of 1.2 million who wore German uniforms, only 450-500 thousand did this, holding weapons in their hands. Let's now try to calculate the layout of the really combat units of the Eastern peoples. Asian battalions (Caucasians, Turks and Tatars) were formed 75 pieces (80,000 people). Taking into account 10 Crimean police battalions (8,700), Kalmyks and special units, approximately 110,000 "combat" Asians leave total amount 215,000. It quite beats with the layout separately for Caucasians. The Baltic States endowed the Germans with 93 police battalions (later partly reduced to regiments), total strength 33,000 people. In addition, 12 border regiments (30,000) were formed, partly staffed by police battalions, then three SS divisions (15, 19 and 20) and two volunteer regiments were created, through which about 70,000 people probably passed. Police and border regiments and battalions were partly directed to their formation. Taking into account the absorption of some units by others, in total, about 100,000 Balts passed through the combat units. In Belarus, 20 police battalions (5,000) were formed, of which 9 were considered Ukrainian. After the introduction of mobilization in March 1944, police battalions became part of the army of the Belarusian Central Rada. In total, the Belarusian Regional Defense (BKA) had 34 battalions, 20,000 people. Having retreated in 1944 together with the German troops, these battalions were consolidated into the Siegling SS Brigade. Then, on the basis of the brigade, with the addition of Ukrainian "policemen", the remnants of the Kaminsky brigade and even the Cossacks, the 30th SS division was deployed, which was subsequently used to staff the 1st Vlasov division. Galicia was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and was seen as potentially German territory. It was separated from Ukraine, included in the Reich, as part of the General Government of Warsaw and put in line for Germanization. On the territory of Galicia, 10 police battalions (5,000) were formed, and subsequently the recruitment of volunteers for the SS troops was announced. It is believed that 70,000 volunteers turned up at the recruiting sites, but that many were not needed. As a result, one SS division (14th) and five police regiments were formed. Police regiments were disbanded as needed and sent to replenish the division. The total contribution of Galicia to the victory over Stalinism can be estimated at 30,000 people. In the rest of Ukraine, 53 police battalions (25,000) were formed. It is known that a small part of them became part of the 30th SS division, the fate of the rest is unknown to me. After the formation in March 1945 of the Ukrainian analogue of KONR - Ukrainian National Committee- the Galician 14th SS division was renamed the 1st Ukrainian and the formation of the 2nd began. It was formed from volunteers of Ukrainian nationality recruited from various auxiliary formations, they recruited about 2,000 people. Of the Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians, about 90 security "Ostbattalions" were formed, through which approximately 80,000 people passed, including the "Russian National People's Army" reorganized into five security battalions. Of the other Russian combat formations, we can recall the 3,000th Russian 1st national SS brigade Gil (Rodionov), who went over to the side of the partisans, about 6,000th "Russian National Army"Smyslovsky and the army of Kaminsky ("Russian Liberation People's Army”), which arose as a self-defense force of the so-called. Lokot Republic. Maximum estimates of the number of people who passed through Kaminsky's army reach 20,000. After 1943, Kaminsky's troops retreat along with by the German army and in 1944 an attempt was made to reorganize them into the 29th SS division. For a number of reasons, the reorganization was canceled, and the personnel were transferred to the understaffing of the 30th SS division. At the beginning of 1945, the armed forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (the Vlasov army) were created. The first division of the army is formed from the "ost battalions" and the remnants of the 30th SS division. The second division is formed from the "Ostbattalions", and partly from volunteer prisoners of war. The number of Vlasovites before the end of the war is estimated at 40,000 people, of which about 30,000 were former SS and Ostbattalions. In total, the Wehrmacht and the SS fought with weapons in their hands in different time about 120,000 Russians. The Cossacks, according to Drobyazko's calculations, put up 70,000 people, let's accept this figure. HOW DID THEY GET INTO THE SERVICE? Initially, the eastern units were staffed by volunteers from among prisoners of war and local population. Since the summer of 1942, the principle of recruiting the local population has changed from voluntary to voluntary-compulsory - an alternative to voluntary entry into the police is forced deportation to Germany, "ostarbeiter". By the autumn of 1942, the undisguised coercion begins. Drobyazko, in his dissertation, talks about raids on peasants in the Shepetovka region: those caught were offered a choice between joining the police or being sent to a camp. Since 1943, mandatory military service in various "self-defenses" of the Reichskommissariat "Ostland". In the Baltic States, through mobilization, since 1943, SS units and border guards were recruited. HOW AND WITH WHOM DID THEY FIGHT? Initially, the Slavic eastern parts were created to carry out security services. In this capacity, they were supposed to replace the security battalions of the Wehrmacht, which, like a vacuum cleaner, were sucked out of the rear zone by the needs of the front. At first, the soldiers of the Ostbattalions guarded the warehouses and railways, but as the situation became more complicated, they began to be involved in anti-partisan operations. The involvement of the Ostbattalions in the fight against the partisans contributed to their disintegration. If in 1942 the number of “Ostbattalion” soldiers who went over to the side of the partisans was relatively small (although this year the Germans were forced to disband the RNNA due to massive defections), then in 1943 14 thousand fled to the partisans (and this is very, very quite a few, with an average number of eastern units in 1943 of about 65,000 people). The Germans had no strength to observe the further decomposition of the Ostbattalions, and in October 1943 the remaining eastern units were sent to France and Denmark (while disarming 5-6 thousand volunteers as unreliable). There they were included as 3rd or 4th battalions in the regiments of the German divisions. Slavic eastern battalions, behind rare exception, were not used in battles on eastern front. In contrast, a significant number of Asian Ostbattalions were involved in the first line of the advancing German troops during the battle for the Caucasus. The results of the battles were contradictory - some showed themselves well, others - on the contrary, turned out to be infected with deserter moods and gave a large percentage of defectors. By the beginning of 1944, most of the Asian battalions also ended up on the Western Wall. Those who remained in the East were consolidated into the Eastern Turkic and Caucasian SS formations and were involved in the suppression of the Warsaw and Slovak uprisings. In total, by the time of the Allied invasion in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, 72 Slavic, Asian and Cossack battalions with a total number of about 70 thousand people had been assembled. In general, and in general, the Ostbattalions in battles with the allies showed themselves poorly (with some exceptions). Of the nearly 8.5 thousand irretrievable losses, 8 thousand were missing, that is, mostly deserters and defectors. After that, the remaining battalions were disarmed and involved in fortification work on the Siegfried Line. Subsequently, they were used to form parts of the Vlasov army. In 1943, Cossack units were also withdrawn from the east. The most combat-ready formation of the German Cossack troops - formed in the summer of 1943 1st Cossack division von Panwitz went to Yugoslavia to deal with Tito's partisans. There, they gradually gathered all the Cossacks, deploying the division into a corps. The division took part in the battles on the Eastern Front in 1945, fighting mainly against the Bulgarians. The Baltic States gave the largest number of troops to the front - in addition to three SS divisions, separate police regiments and battalions took part in the battles. The 20th Estonian SS division was defeated near Narva, but subsequently restored and managed to take part in last fights war. The Latvian 15th and 19th SS divisions in the summer of 1944 came under attack by the Red Army and could not withstand the blow. Large scale desertion and loss of combat capability are reported. As a result, the 15th division, having transferred its most reliable composition to the 19th, was assigned to the rear for use in the construction of fortifications. The second time it was used in combat in January 1945, in East Prussia, after which it was again taken to the rear. She managed to surrender to the Americans. The 19th remained until the end of the war in Courland. Belarusian policemen and those freshly mobilized in the BKA in 1944 were assembled in the 30th SS division. After the formation, the division in September 1944 was transferred to France, where it took part in battles with the allies. Suffered heavy losses mainly from desertion. Belarusians ran across to the allies in batches and continued the war in Polish units. In December, the division was disbanded, and the remaining personnel were transferred to staff the 1st Vlasov division. The Galician 14th SS division, barely smelling gunpowder, was surrounded near Brody and almost completely destroyed. Although she was quickly restored, she no longer took part in the battles at the front. One of her regiments was involved in the suppression of the Slovak uprising, after which she went to Yugoslavia to fight Tito's partisans. Since it was not far from Yugoslavia to Austria, the division managed to surrender to the British. The armed forces of the KONR were formed in early 1945. Although the 1st division of the Vlasovites was staffed almost entirely by punitive veterans, many of whom had already been at the front, Vlasov soared Hitler's brains by demanding more time to prepare. In the end, the division still managed to push to the Oder front, where she took part in one attack against Soviet troops April 13th. The very next day, the division commander, Major General Bunyachenko, ignoring the protests of his German immediate supervisor led the division from the front and went to connect with the rest of the Vlasov army in the Czech Republic. The Vlasov army carried out the second battle already against its ally, attacking on May 5 German troops in Prague. WHAT MOVED THEM? The driving motives were completely different. Firstly, among the eastern troops, one can single out national separatists who fought to create their own nation state or by at least privileged province of the Reich. This includes the Balts, Asian legionnaires and Galicians. The creation of parts of this kind has a long tradition - to recall at least Czechoslovak Corps or the Polish Legion in World War I. These would fight against central government, whoever is sitting in Moscow - the tsar, the secretary general or the popularly elected president. Secondly, there were ideological and stubborn opponents of the regime. This includes the Cossacks (although partly their motives were national separatist), part personnel Ostbattalions, a significant part officer corps KONR troops. Thirdly, we can name the opportunists who staked on the winner, those who joined the Reich during the victories of the Wehrmacht, but fled to the partisans after the defeat at Kursk and continued to flee at the first opportunity. These probably made up a significant part of the Ostbattalions and the local police. There were also those on the other side of the front, as can be seen from the change in the number of defectors to the Germans in 1942-44: 1942 - 79769 people 1943 - 26108 people 1944 - 9207 people Fourthly, these were people who hoped to break out of the camp and with a convenient opportunity to go to theirs. It is difficult to say how many of these there were, but sometimes they were recruited for a whole battalion. And, finally, the fifth category - people who would rather survive. This includes the bulk of the hiwi and construction workers, who received a much more nutritious ration in this capacity than in the camp. AND WHAT IS THE RESULT? And the result is a picture completely different from what is drawn by ardent anti-communists. Instead of one (or even two) million Russians rallying under the tricolor flag in the fight against the hateful Stalinist regime, there is a very motley (and obviously not reaching a million) company of Balts, Asians, Galicians and Slavs who fought each for their own. And mostly not with the Stalinist regime, but with partisans (and not only Russians, but also with Yugoslav, Slovak, French, Polish), Western allies, and even with the Germans in general. Doesn't look much like civil war, is not it? Well, except to call these words the struggle of partisans with policemen, but the policemen fought by no means under the tricolor flag, but with a swastika on their sleeves. For the sake of justice, it should be noted that until the end of 1944, until the formation of the KONR and its armed forces, the Germans did not provide the opportunity for Russian anti-communists to fight for national idea, for Russia without communists. It can be assumed that if they had allowed it earlier, “under the tricolor flag” would have rallied more people, especially since there were still plenty of opponents of the Bolsheviks in the country. But this is “would” and besides, my grandmother also said in two. And in real history no “millions under the tricolor flag” were observed. List of sources 1. S.I. Drobyazko Eastern formations in the Wehrmacht (dissertation) 2. S. Drobyazko, A. Karaschuk Russian Liberation Army 3. S. Drobyazko, A. Karaschuk Eastern volunteers in the Wehrmacht, police and SS 4. S. Drobyazko, A. Karaschuk Eastern legions and Cossack units in Wehrmacht 5. O.V.Romanko Muslim legions in World War II 6. J. Hoffmann History of the Vlasov Army 7. VK Shtrik-Shtrikfeldt Against Stalin and Hitler 8. N. M. Konyaev Vlasov. Two faces of the general.

1. As of June 22, 1941 tank forces The USSR was 4 times superior to the German ones, aviation - 5 times. The amount of artillery was overwhelming. reported with reference to ermalex76.livejournal.com

Soviet tanks of the old modification were superior in their characteristics to their counterparts in Germany. Tanks T-34 and KV-1 had no analogues in Nazi Germany and were the horror of the German army, American technology was used in their production. The USSR was waiting for the war and preparing for it.

2. For six months of fighting, the Germans managed to destroy all the tank armadas of the USSR: if in June 41 the USSR had over 20 thousand tanks, then in December there were barely 900 of them on the entire eastern front.

3. German aces the Luftwaffe had 200-300 shot down on their account Soviet aircraft, while the most famous Soviet ace Ukrainian Kozhedub - about 60 downed German, the rest are even less.

4. During the war years, 1700 cities were destroyed on the territory of the USSR.

5. As a result of hostilities, 70 thousand Soviet villages were burned. Many never recovered.

6. 27 million Soviet citizens died.

7. 3-5 million people went missing. Who survived - fled anywhere abroad, but not in the USSR.

8. The lion's share of losses in the war (40% in industry, 25% among soldiers, 15% - general human losses) fell on Ukraine. It was for the colossal losses that Ukraine was given a place in the UN (the official wording during the formation of the UN General Assembly)

9. In the first six months of the war alone, almost 4 million surrendered to the Germans Soviet soldiers and officers (as of June 1941, there were 5.3 million soldiers in the Red Army, that is, almost the entire regular army created to participate in World War II surrendered, the rest were in the Transcaucasus and the Far East).

10. The total number of Soviet soldiers and officers who surrendered during the war years was about 6 million (almost the same number Germany lost killed on all fronts).

11. According to the NKVD-MGB, 3 million children were born from German soldiers and officers on the territory of the USSR. And this is only the recorded data (many of the "German" children were recorded by their mothers as "Soviet").

12. The total number of Russian and Soviet citizens who took up arms in the war against the USSR is up to 3 million people, many of whom previously served in the Red Army.

13. Only in 1944, a record number of 1 million Russian volunteers signed up for the Wehrmacht to jointly fight the Soviet "liberation". These were not special, not elite units. These were actually military units militia. Many of them, after the "liberation", went into the forests and continued the struggle as " forest brothers"on the territory of Belarus and the Baltic States ... Many went to the West ...

14. In addition to the “militia”, “ideological” Russian units fought against the USSR. They fought under Russian tricolors and St. George ribbons. Among them:

1st Russian National Army

Russian Corps

Battalion Muraviev

1st Russian National SS Brigade "Druzhina"

Russian People's National Army

29th SS Division (First Russian) (Russian People's Liberation Army)

30th SS Division (Second Russian)

Russian Liberation Army

SS Regiment "Varyag"

SS Regiment "Desna"

Russian personnel in the SS division "Charlemagne"

Russian personnel in the SS division "Dirlewanger"

Zuev's detachment

15. Russian soldiers fought on the side of Hitler, including in elite troops SS led by:

- prominent figure the anti-Bolshevik struggle of General Krasnov Petr Nikolaevich (head of the Main Directorate of the Cossack troops),

- Shkuro Andrey Grigoryevich (camping ataman of the Cossack camp, SS gruppenfuhrer),

- Helmut von Pannwitz (Supreme Ataman of the Cossack camp, SS Gruppenfuehrer),

- Pavlov Sergey Vasilyevich (camping ataman of the Cossack camp),

- Domanov Timofey Nikolaevich (camping ataman of the Cossack camp, major general of the Wehrmacht),

- Kaminsky Bronislav Vladislavovich (29th SS Grenadier Division, later RONA (Russian People's Liberation Army).

Russian soldiers fought not in the SS troops under the leadership of:

- General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (ROA - Russian Liberation Army);

- Steyfon Boris Aleksandrovich, commander of the Russian Security Corps;

- Sultan-Girey Klych Shakhanovich (Caucasian division).

16. In addition to individual Russian divisions, as part of German Wehrmacht each division that fought on the Eastern Front, already in 1942, had at least 15% of Russian volunteers in its composition total number up to a million people - the so-called HiVi (HilsWillige - "voluntary assistants"), and divisions such as the 707th and 442nd were practically Russian in composition, having Germans only as commanders.

17. In addition, in addition to Heavi, in the Wehrmacht there were big number separate "Eastern battalions" that were part of the "Eastern Troops" of the Wehrmacht. All of them were made up of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians and dozens of other nationalities of Russia.

18. As part of the 6th Army of the Wehrmacht, Colonel General F. Paulus, surrounded in Stalingrad, and numbering 220 thousand people - almost every fourth, more than 50 thousand people - was a Russian volunteer. Made up of them volunteer division"von Stumpfeld" rushed in the Stalingrad cauldron to the most dangerous sectors of the front and stopped resistance only after the surrender of the entire group.

19. The Russians fought in all the most elite German SS troops: “Adolf Hitler”, “Reich”, “Dead Head”, “Wallonia”, “Viking”, “Charlemagne”, “Nibelungen”, as well as elite division"Greater Germany".

20. In total, about 40 Russian military-political volunteer organizations (not counting Belarusian and nationalists) are known, which set as their goal the destruction of the USSR and were equal to an alliance with Germany:

Battalion Muravyov

Fighting alliance of Russian nationalists

Brotherhood of Russian Truth

Higher german school for Russian officers

Division "Russia" also - Division "Russland"

SS Volunteer Regiment "Varyag"

Green Special Forces Army

Cossack Stan

Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR)

Lokot Republic

People's Socialist Party

People's Labor Union of Russian Solidarists

Zeppelin Organization

Republic of Zueva

RONA

Russian Imperial Union-Order

Russian Civil Auxiliary Police,

Sevastopol

Russian Corps

Russian detachment of the 9th Army of the Wehrmacht

Russian National Labor Party

Russian Fascist Party

Hivi

Russian Auxiliary Police (Schutzmannschaft)

28th Volunteer Tank grenadier division SS "Wallonia"

15th Cossack cavalry corps SS

1st Russian National SS Brigade "Druzhina", also known as the 1st Russian National SS Detachment

29th SS Grenadier Division (Russian Nr.1)

30th SS Grenadier Division (2nd Russian)

Air Force KONR (Air Force ROA)

1st ROA division/ VS KONR (600-infantry division of the Wehrmacht)

2nd division ROA/AF KONR (650th infantry division)
600th Russian division of the Wehrmacht

602nd Ost Battalion

645th battalion

ROND/RNSD

Guards of the Russian Fascist Party

Corps of the Russian monarchist party "Russen" (Russia) - news and propaganda agency

21. Most large association former Russian citizens who fought during WWII - the Polish anti-communist Craiova Army - numbered over 300 thousand people (Poland until 1915 was part of the Russian Empire for a hundred years, AK soldiers were born in Russia) was defeated by the communists at the hands of Hitler during the Warsaw Uprising.

22. The SS division "Galicia" ("Galicia"), unlike the Russian formations, is not a collaborator. The soldiers of "Galicia" have never been Russian citizens, nor Soviet.

23. The USSR was considered a vassal of Germany, which financed it. Tukhachevsky's conspiracy was aimed at overthrowing the stubborn Imperial Stalin and transferring power in the country to a pro-German government. The plot was exposed with the help of British intelligence.

24. Having entered the war with the USSR, Hitler counted on a quick campaign, which was supposed to end with the overthrow of Stalin with the help of a coup in Moscow. The capture of Ukraine and Belarus was agreed with the conspirators. Hitler waited for the coup in Moscow until the beginning of 1944.

25. Stalin knew about Hitler's attack at least four days in advance. The order to put the troops on alert was issued on June 18. However, for four days the directive was not brought to the commanding divisions.

26. The actions of a number of commanders of the Red Army in June 41 ran counter to the war plan. Instead of planned attacks from prepared fortified areas on the flanks and rear of the advancing German troops, the commanders give unreasonable orders to retreat, leaving equipment along the road.

27. The Greatest Threat German army represented 6 tank corps Red Army, which consisted of 300 tanks KV-1 and T-34. The Germans did not have the forces to fight him. But the corps was withdrawn to the rear, where it ran out of fuel along the way. The threat of the German army ceased to exist without a shot being fired.

28. In the Brest Fortress, contrary to repeated demands of the General Staff for six months (!) Two divisions were imprisoned and trapped. The army hospital was generally taken out of the front line - the hospital was located on an island in the middle of the Neman, in fact, on German territory ... The history of the Brest Fortress is a history of shame and betrayal.

29. Immediately after the start of the war, Stalin changed the commander of the Moscow military district, and the "collective junta" imposed on him - the State Defense Committee - was never assembled. On the paper State Committee there was a defense, but in fact Stalin forbade its members to gather together ...

30. Western Ukraine, from the point of view of international law, was not part of Poland, since the Versailles system determined eastern border Poland along the Curzon Line. Western Ukrainian people's republic was proclaimed simultaneously with the Polish on November 1, 1918, and on January 21, 1919, it merged into the conciliar Ukraine. While the Poles and the Bolsheviks sorted out their relationship, the West did not intervene, but as soon as the Red Army crossed the "Curzon Line" in 1920, the military intervention of the Entente followed, as a result of which the Red Army suffered a crushing defeat on the outskirts of the former Russian city- Warsaw.

31. Western Ukraine was occupied by Poland in 1921. Ukrainian soldiers were imprisoned in concentration camps, and in western Ukraine they created occupation regime- the so-called "rehabilitation regime". The only one who recognized and legalized this occupation was the USSR, which thus intended to shake up the situation in Poland from the inside and, after its weakening, seize the Privislensky region - former province Russian empire.

32. Poland justified its occupation of western Ukraine in the West by the need to protect itself from the threat of Bolshevism. The West turned a blind eye to this, but did not legally recognize it either. That is why the activists of "Galicia" were not considered collaborators and were not subject to extradition to either the USSR or Poland. Ukrainians got the opportunity to emigrate under the protection program to the United States.

33. Stalin, when he entered the war against Poland in 1939 on the side of Hitler, acted as a defender of the Versailles system, since he appealed to the right of Ukrainians to their own state. That is why in September 1939 Stalin, unlike Hitler, was not recognized by the West as an aggressor (he was recognized as an aggressor after the attack on Finland), because formally Western Ukraine joined Ukrainian state- Ukrainian SSR.

34. The ideology of the OUN (Organization Ukrainian nationalists) was created by a Russian nobleman from Melitopol Dmitry Dontsov.

35. The goal of the OUN was to restore independent Ukraine within the officially recognized borders of 1918-1919. At first they fought against the Soviet and Polish occupation with the help of Germany. When it became clear that Hitler was not going to give independence to Ukraine, the OUN opposed the Reich - the only case of its kind in the entire Second World War.

36. Stepan Bandera never fought for Hitler. At the beginning of the war, he was imprisoned in German concentration camp Sachsenhaus. They released him only in September 1944, exhausted mentally and physically. Subsequently, Bandera lived in the American zone of occupation.

37. Two brothers of Stepan Bandera were imprisoned in Auschwitz, where they were executed by the Nazis. The third brother was liquidated by Nazi agents.

38. Stepan Bandera's father was captured at home by the NKVD and shot at the beginning of the war.

39. In the "Ukrainian Legion" - the formation of the Wehrmacht 41-42 years - the Ukrainians served under the contract. After the one-year contract expired, the Legion soldiers refused to renew it due to Bandera's persecution. After that, they were not shot, they were not convicted, but ... they were released into civilian life ...

40. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was created on Pokrov. The celebration of the Intercession of the Mother of God is the main distinctive holiday of the Orthodox world. Thus, the OUN members demonstrated their struggle against the satanic regimes in the Kremlin and Berlin. Now it is the day of the Ukrainian army.

41. Cells and detachments of the OUN-UPA in the underground operated exclusively in a network way - they were connected not by leadership, but by ideas. This ensured a constant influx of volunteers who fought for the ideas of building a new society. The cells are spread all over Ukraine, not only the western one.

42. "Young Guard" in Krasnodon - a cell of the OUN-UPA, which connected young people with the ideas of a free Ukraine. The Young Guard, as children, witnessed one of the most inhuman crimes of the communist regime - the Holodomor, when thousands of peasants of Donbass were destroyed by artificial famine.

43. On Yalta Conference(February 1945) Churchill wrote that Stalin's position in the Ukraine was uncertain. The people "liberated" from Hitler refuse to recognize Soviet power. Bulk cases disobedience from Odessa to Lvov...

44. In 1945, after the victory over Germany, the UN began to restore the pre-war borders. To consolidate his grips of 39-40, Stalin proclaimed Ukraine (as well as Belarus) as founding members of the UN. Thus, it turned out that it was not the USSR that seized the Polish lands, but Ukraine, as a member of the UN, restored its sovereignty of 1918. In the same way, Ukraine regained Transcarpathia as a member of the UN and a member of the Versailles system. International law has recognized such a legal justification as correct.

45. In the 1950s, the United States excluded Ukraine from the list of targets for nuclear bombing in case of war with the USSR, since Ukraine is a separate subject of international law from the USSR, despite the fact that it was stuffed with troops and weapons to the eyeballs.

46. ​​After the collapse of the USSR, no one disputes the sovereignty of Ukrainian territories, because Ukraine is one of the heirs of Austria-Hungary (1918) and the founder of the world order since 1945. Despite all the calls and promises of Moscow, no one joined the deriban. The reason is legitimacy.

47. The USSR suffered so much in the war with Germany and the rebellious peoples huge losses that never recovered from them. In the end, the victorious country collapsed, and the defeated Germany, on the contrary, recovered.

48. The Soviet Union was destroyed by the Russian Federation. On June 12, 1990, the Russian Federation announced its withdrawal from the USSR, which launched a "parade of sovereignties." Next year- this is the agony of the USSR in the fight against the RSFSR.

49. In 1991 the Russian Federation takes a fascist symbol for himself - the Vlasov tricolor, under which the Nazi collaborators fought.

50. In 2005, the official symbol of "Victory" over "fascism" becomes St. George Ribbon, which was the official symbol of the Russian fascist party and all Russian collaborators of Hitler.

51. Future conquerors of Europe - German pilots and tankers - trained at the military bases created by Germany on the territory of the USSR. Germany was forbidden to develop its military establishment, so they developed abroad on the territory of the USSR.

52. The National Socialists came to power in Germany with the help of Stalin, according to the concept of a world socialist revolution, i.e., the plan for the hybrid conquest of the world, developed in the USSR after the failure of the campaign in Europe in 1920 and the collapse of the socialist revolutions in Bavaria and Hungary ... Hitler is a participant in the socialist revolution in Bavaria, and Mussolini is a participant in the socialist movement in Italy.

53. The technology of ISIS promotion completely copies the technology of bringing the Nazis to power. Help the radicals to use them as an icebreaker to destroy the world order, and then become good cops themselves and get the sympathy of the world. Just as there was an imitation of the struggle against the National Socialists in the 20-30s, so now fake threats are flying against ISIS. At the same time, FSB officers supervise and develop ISIS cells on Russian territory.

54. The formations of Kovpak and the UPA in the raids in the Carpathians against the Nazis in 1943 acted jointly, Commissar Rudnev was a supporter of the union, for which the Soviet agents liquidated him.

55. Stalin personally never celebrated "Victory Day", and since 1947 forbade him to be mentioned at all.

A question that occupies a lot of attention of those interested in the war: so, how many Russians fought on the side of the Germans?

There is a lot of evidence that millions of Russians fought on the side of the Germans, but so far no one has bothered to shed light on this dark matter. It can be seen that for this still unclear reason, strange, and somewhere terrible, inherently events are taking place in the Baltic countries, Moldova and Ukraine - the republics that were once part of united country- Soviet Union.

And, it would seem, what could be simpler - at one time make inquiries about all those who fought against their country, against their people, but they went to hell - beyond the Urals with a warning about punishment for unauthorized return - and there would be no all those events that have occurred and are occurring from the beginning of perestroika initiated by Gorbachev to the present day.

For the first time, I learned about a million who fought for the Germans from the book of the current Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky “War, Myths of the USSR, 1939-1945”. True, Medinsky, from the very first lines, starting with the epigraph “There is not a single Russian who would stand for the Germans. Ilya Ehrenburg”, tries to convince readers that there was no that notorious million Russians who served the Germans and stood on the side of the Germans.

Here is what Medinsky writes about this: “The well-informed journalist Andrei Karaulov somehow convinced me that a million is an underestimated figure. Actually, one and a half. 1,500,000 Russians with weapons in their hands fought on the side of the Wehrmacht.

Ten million Russians, it turns out, fought for the Russians.”

And then even more terrible, and therefore more unbearable - in German occupation turned out to be 80,000,000 active population Soviet Union. And after all, this population somehow had to live and survive under the conditions of occupation. Not all of these 80 million turned out to be people capable of taking up arms and someone went into the service of the Germans: they became policemen, continued to work on collective farms, washed the Germans (but how! locomotive drivers drove to the front german tanks, guns, shells, troops. True, the latter, especially the Kyiv machinists, were dealt with at the end of the war. But that was just a small part.

Twisting the topic, Medinsky turned to specifics: So, referring to General of the Army M.A. Gareev, he writes about 200,000 accomplices, of which 100,000 served in armed formations. Referring to other sources, he gives other figures -180,000, and in conclusion - 500,000.

Like it or not - no one still knows and, most likely, will not know. Since we all somehow foretold and immediately found ourselves in another time and in another dimension, where the minuses were replaced by pluses, where traitors are no longer traitors, and somewhere even heroes. True, the attempts of Russian ignoramuses from failed collaborators to attach the Soviet traitor general Vlasov to the ranks of the heroes who fought against Stalin did not pass, which, however, did not become an example for other peoples who had freed themselves from the communist legacy. It's a pity.

According to some, during the Great Patriotic War, a million Soviet citizens went to fight under the tricolor flag. Sometimes they even talk about two million Russians who fought against the Bolshevik regime, but here they probably also count 700,000 emigrants. These figures are given for a reason - they are an argument for the assertion that the Great Patriotic War is the essence of the Second Civil War of the Russian people against the hated Stalin. What can be said here?

If it really happened that a million Russians stood up under the tricolor banners and fought to the death against the Red Army for a free Russia, shoulder to shoulder with their German allies, then we would have no choice but to admit that yes, The Great Patriotic War really became the Second Civil War for the Russian people. But was it so?

To figure it out, one way or another, you should answer a few questions: how many were there, who were they, how did they get into the service, how and with whom did they fight, and what motivated them?

The cooperation of Soviet citizens with the occupiers took place in various forms, both in terms of the degree of voluntariness and the degree of involvement in the armed struggle - from the Baltic SS volunteers who fought fiercely near Narva to the "Ostarbeiters" forcibly driven to Germany. I believe that even the most stubborn anti-Stalinists will not be able to enroll the latter in the ranks of the fighters against the Bolshevik regime without prevarication. Usually, these ranks include those who received rations from the German military or police department, or held in their hands received from the hands of the Germans or pro-German local government.

That is, to the maximum, potential fighters with the Bolsheviks fall into:
foreign military units of the Wehrmacht and the SS;
eastern security battalions;
building parts of the Wehrmacht;
auxiliary personnel of the Wehrmacht, they are also "our Ivans" or Hiwi (Hilfswilliger: "voluntary helpers");
auxiliary police units ("noise" - Schutzmannshaften);
border guard;
"air defense assistants" mobilized to Germany through youth organizations;

HOW MANY WAS THEM?

We will probably never know the exact numbers, since no one really considered them, but some estimates are available to us. A lower estimate can be obtained from the archives of the former NKVD - until March 1946, 283,000 "Vlasov" and other uniformed collaborators were transferred to the authorities. The estimate from above can probably be taken from the works of Drobyazko, which serve as the main source of figures for the proponents of the "Second Civil" version. According to his calculations (the method of which, unfortunately, he does not disclose), the following passed through the Wehrmacht, the SS and various pro-German paramilitaries and police forces during the war years:
250,000 Ukrainians
70,000 Belarusians
70,000 Cossacks
150,000 Latvians

90,000 Estonians
50,000 Lithuanians
70,000 Central Asians
12,000 Volga Tatars
10,000 Crimean Tatars
7,000 Kalmyks
40,000 Azerbaijanis
25,000 Georgians
20,000 Armenians
30,000 North Caucasian peoples

Since the total number of all former Soviet citizens wearing German and pro-German uniforms is estimated at 1.2 million, the Russians (excluding Cossacks) are left with about 310,000 people. There are, of course, other calculations that give a smaller total number, but let's not waste time on trifles, let's take Drobyazko's estimate from above as the basis for further reasoning.

WHO WERE THEY?

Hiwi and soldiers of the construction battalions can hardly be considered civil war fighters. Of course, their work freed German soldiers for the front, but exactly the same applies to the "Ostarbeiters". Occasionally, the hiwi were given weapons and fought alongside the Germans, but such occurrences are described in the unit's combat logs more as a curiosity than as a mass phenomenon. It is interesting to calculate how many were those who actually held weapons in their hands.

The number of hiwis at the end of the war by Drobiazko is about 675,000, if you add construction units and take into account the losses during the war, then I think we are not very wrong in assuming that this category covers about 700-750,000 people out of a total of 1.2 million. This is consistent with with a share of non-combat among the Caucasian peoples, in the calculation presented by the headquarters of the eastern troops at the end of the war. According to him, out of a total of 102,000 Caucasians who passed through the Wehrmacht and the SS, 55,000 served in the legions, Luftwaffe and SS and 47,000 in hiwi and construction units. It must be taken into account that the proportion of Caucasians enrolled in combat units was higher than the proportion of Slavs.

So, out of 1.2 million who wore German uniforms, only 450-500 thousand did this, holding weapons in their hands. Let's now try to calculate the layout of the really combat units of the Eastern peoples.

Asian battalions (Caucasians, Turks and Tatars) were formed 75 pieces (80,000 people). Including 10 Crimean police battalions (8,700), Kalmyks and special units, there are approximately 110,000 "combat" Asians out of a total of 215,000. It quite beats with the layout separately for Caucasians.

The Baltics endowed the Germans with 93 police battalions (later partly reduced to regiments), with a total number of 33,000 people. In addition, 12 border regiments (30,000) were formed, partly staffed by police battalions, then three SS divisions (15, 19 and 20) and two volunteer regiments were created, through which about 70,000 people probably passed. Police and border regiments and battalions were partly directed to their formation. Taking into account the absorption of some units by others, in total, about 100,000 Balts passed through the combat units.

In Belarus, 20 police battalions (5,000) were formed, of which 9 were considered Ukrainian. After the introduction of mobilization in March 1944, police battalions became part of the army of the Belarusian Central Rada. In total, the Belarusian Regional Defense (BKA) had 34 battalions, 20,000 people. Having retreated in 1944 together with the German troops, these battalions were consolidated into the Siegling SS Brigade. Then, on the basis of the brigade, with the addition of Ukrainian "policemen", the remnants of the Kaminsky brigade and even the Cossacks, the 30th SS division was deployed, which was subsequently used to staff the 1st Vlasov division.

Galicia was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and was seen as a potential German territory. It was separated from Ukraine, included in the Reich, as part of the General Government of Warsaw and put in line for Germanization. On the territory of Galicia, 10 police battalions (5,000) were formed, and subsequently the recruitment of volunteers for the SS troops was announced. It is believed that 70,000 volunteers turned up at the recruiting sites, but that many were not needed. As a result, one SS division (14th) and five police regiments were formed. Police regiments were disbanded as needed and sent to replenish the division. The total contribution of Galicia to the victory over Stalinism can be estimated at 30,000 people.

In the rest of Ukraine, 53 police battalions (25,000) were formed. It is known that a small part of them became part of the 30th SS division, the fate of the rest is unknown to me. After the formation in March 1945 of the Ukrainian analogue of the KONR - the Ukrainian National Committee - the Galician 14th SS division was renamed the 1st Ukrainian and the formation of the 2nd began. It was formed from volunteers of Ukrainian nationality recruited from various auxiliary formations, they recruited about 2,000 people.

Of the Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians, about 90 security "Ostbattalions" were formed, through which approximately 80,000 people passed, including the "Russian National People's Army" reorganized into five security battalions. Other Russian combat formations include the 3,000-strong 1st Russian National SS Brigade Gil (Rodionov), which went over to the side of the partisans, the approximately 6,000-strong "Russian National Army" of Smyslovsky and the army of Kaminsky ("Russian Liberation People's Army"), which arose as the self-defense forces of the so-called. Lokot Republic. Maximum estimates of the number of people who passed through Kaminsky's army reach 20,000. After 1943, Kaminsky's troops retreated along with the German army and in 1944 an attempt was made to reorganize them into the 29th SS division. For a number of reasons, the reorganization was canceled, and the personnel were transferred to the understaffing of the 30th SS division. At the beginning of 1945, the armed forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (the Vlasov army) were created. The first division of the army is formed from the "ost battalions" and the remnants of the 30th SS division. The second division is formed from the "Ostbattalions", and partly from volunteer prisoners of war. The number of Vlasovites before the end of the war is estimated at 40,000 people, of which about 30,000 were former SS and Ostbattalions. In total, about 120,000 Russians fought in the Wehrmacht and the SS with weapons in their hands at different times.

The Cossacks, according to Drobyazko's calculations, put up 70,000 people, let's accept this figure.

HOW DID THEY GET INTO THE SERVICE?

Initially, the eastern parts were staffed with volunteers from among the prisoners of war and the local population. Since the summer of 1942, the principle of recruiting the local population has changed from voluntary to voluntary-compulsory - an alternative to voluntary entry into the police is forced deportation to Germany, "ostarbeiter". By the autumn of 1942, the undisguised coercion begins. Drobyazko, in his dissertation, talks about raids on peasants in the Shepetovka region: those caught were offered a choice between joining the police or being sent to a camp. Since 1943, compulsory military service has been introduced in various "self-defenses" of the Reichskommissariat "Ostland". In the Baltic States, through mobilization, since 1943, SS units and border guards were recruited.

HOW AND WITH WHOM DID THEY FIGHT?

Initially, the Slavic eastern parts were created to carry out security services. In this capacity, they were supposed to replace the security battalions of the Wehrmacht, which, like a vacuum cleaner, were sucked out of the rear zone by the needs of the front. At first, the soldiers of the Ostbattalions guarded warehouses and railways, but as the situation became more complicated, they began to be involved in anti-partisan operations. The involvement of the Ostbattalions in the fight against the partisans contributed to their disintegration. If in 1942 the number of “Ostbattalion” soldiers who went over to the side of the partisans was relatively small (although this year the Germans were forced to disband the RNNA due to massive defections), then in 1943 14 thousand fled to the partisans (and this is very, very quite a few, with an average number of eastern units in 1943 of about 65,000 people). The Germans had no strength to observe the further decomposition of the Ostbattalions, and in October 1943 the remaining eastern units were sent to France and Denmark (while disarming 5-6 thousand volunteers as unreliable). There they were included as 3rd or 4th battalions in the regiments of the German divisions.

Slavic eastern battalions, with rare exceptions, were not used in battles on the eastern front. In contrast, a significant number of Asian Ostbattalions were involved in the first line of the advancing German troops during the battle for the Caucasus. The results of the battles were contradictory - some showed themselves well, others - on the contrary, turned out to be infected with deserter moods and gave a large percentage of defectors. By the beginning of 1944, most of the Asian battalions also ended up on the Western Wall. Those who remained in the East were consolidated into the Eastern Turkic and Caucasian SS formations and were involved in the suppression of the Warsaw and Slovak uprisings.

In total, by the time of the Allied invasion in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, 72 Slavic, Asian and Cossack battalions with a total strength of about 70 thousand were assembled. In general, and in general, the Ostbattalions in battles with the allies showed themselves poorly (with some exceptions). Of the almost 8.5 thousand irretrievable losses, 8 thousand were missing, that is, most of them were deserters and defectors. After that, the remaining battalions were disarmed and involved in fortification work on the Siegfried Line. Subsequently, they were used to form parts of the Vlasov army.

In 1943, Cossack units were also withdrawn from the east. The most combat-ready unit of the German Cossack troops, formed in the summer of 1943, the 1st Cossack division von Panwitz went to Yugoslavia to deal with Tito's partisans. There, they gradually gathered all the Cossacks, deploying the division into a corps. The division took part in the battles on the Eastern Front in 1945, fighting mainly against the Bulgarians.

The Baltic States gave the largest number of troops to the front - in addition to three SS divisions, separate police regiments and battalions took part in the battles. The 20th Estonian SS division was defeated near Narva, but subsequently restored and managed to take part in the last battles of the war. The Latvian 15th and 19th SS divisions in the summer of 1944 came under attack by the Red Army and could not withstand the blow. Large scale desertion and loss of combat capability are reported. As a result, the 15th division, having transferred its most reliable composition to the 19th, was assigned to the rear for use in the construction of fortifications. The second time it was used in combat in January 1945, in East Prussia, after which it was again withdrawn to the rear. She managed to surrender to the Americans. The 19th remained until the end of the war in Courland.

Belarusian policemen and those freshly mobilized in the BKA in 1944 were assembled in the 30th SS division. After the formation, the division in September 1944 was transferred to France, where it took part in battles with the allies. Suffered heavy losses mainly from desertion. Belarusians ran across to the allies in batches and continued the war in the Polish units. In December, the division was disbanded, and the remaining personnel were transferred to staff the 1st Vlasov division.

The Galician 14th SS division, barely smelling gunpowder, was surrounded near Brody and almost completely destroyed. Although she was quickly restored, she no longer took part in the battles at the front. One of her regiments was involved in the suppression of the Slovak uprising, after which she went to Yugoslavia to fight Tito's pratizans. Since it was not far from Yugoslavia to Austria, the division managed to surrender to the British.

The armed forces of the KONR were formed in early 1945. Although the 1st division of the Vlasovites was staffed almost entirely by punitive veterans, many of whom had already been at the front, Vlasov soared Hitler's brains by demanding more time to prepare. In the end, the division still managed to get to the Oder front, where it took part in one attack against the Soviet troops on April 13. The very next day, the division commander, Major General Bunyachenko, ignoring the protests of his German immediate superior, took the division from the front and went to join the rest of Vlasov's army in the Czech Republic. The Vlasov army fought the second battle against its ally, attacking the German troops in Prague on May 5.

WHAT MOVED THEM?

The driving motives were completely different.

First, among the eastern troops, one can single out the national separatists who fought for the creation of their own nation state, or at least a privileged province of the Reich. This includes the Balts, Asian legionnaires and Galicians. The creation of units of this kind has a long tradition - to recall at least the Czechoslovak Corps or the Polish Legion in the First World War. These would fight against the central government, no matter who was sitting in Moscow - the tsar, the secretary general or the popularly elected president.

Secondly, there were ideological and stubborn opponents of the regime. These include the Cossacks (although partly their motives were national separatist), part of the personnel of the Ostbattalions, a significant part of the officer corps of the KONR troops.

Thirdly, we can name the opportunists who bet on the winner, those who joined the Reich during the victories of the Wehrmacht, but fled to the partisans after the defeat at Kursk and continued to flee at the first opportunity. These probably made up a significant part of the Ostbattalions and the local police. There were also those from the other side of the front, as can be seen from the change in the number of defectors to the Germans in 1942-44:
1942 79,769
1943 26,108
1944 9,207

Fourthly, these were people who hoped to break out of the camp and, at a convenient opportunity, go to their own. It is difficult to say how many of these there were, but sometimes they were recruited for a whole battalion.

AND WHAT IS THE RESULT?

And the result is a picture that is not at all similar to those that are drawn by ardent anti-communists. Instead of one (or even two) million Russians rallying under the tricolor flag in the fight against the hateful Stalinist regime, there is a very motley (and obviously not reaching a million) company of Balts, Asians, Galicians and Slavs who fought each for their own. And mostly not with the Stalinist regime, but with partisans (and not only Russians, but also with Yugoslav, Slovak, French, Polish), Western allies, and even with the Germans in general. Doesn't look much like a civil war, does it? Well, except to call these words the struggle of partisans with policemen, but the policemen fought by no means under the tricolor flag, but with a swastika on their sleeves.

For the sake of justice, it should be noted that until the end of 1944, until the formation of the KONR and its armed forces, the Germans did not provide an opportunity for Russian anti-communists to fight for the national idea, for Russia without the communists. It can be assumed that if they had allowed this earlier, more people would have rallied under the tricolor flag, especially since there were still plenty of opponents of the Bolsheviks in the country. But this is “would” and besides, my grandmother said in two. But in real life, there were no “millions under the tricolor flag”.

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Quite often, publications began to appear stating that at the time a million or even more fought on the side of the Germans Soviet people. They fought on the side of the Nazis under the tricolor Russian flag and, it was an ideological struggle against the bloody Bolshevik regime. It follows that this cooperation with Hitler can be considered the Second of the Russian people.
It is worth taking a closer look at the documents in order to answer a few questions: how many were actually those who became an ally of the Nazis? How did they get into service? For what purpose did they go over to the side of the enemies of their country?
The composition was the most varied, both in terms of voluntariness and in terms of the degree of participation in the armed struggle. It is impossible to put on the same level the Baltic SS men who voluntarily joined the German troops and were forcibly driven to work in Germany civilians. Therefore, the category of fighters against the Bolshevik regime most often includes those who received rations from the Nazi military or police authorities or received weapons from the German or pro-German command.
These include:

• auxiliary staff of the Wehrmacht, or as the Germans themselves called them "voluntary assistants",
• auxiliary parts of the police,
• border guard,
• assistants in the air defense forces, who were mobilized to Germany through youth organizations.

It is impossible to give exact figures, how many there were in total, because there was no exact accounting. But according to the documents of the NKVD, 283,000 Vlasovites and other Nazi accomplices in military uniform were transferred to the authorities until March 1946. Some fierce defenders of the idea of ​​a second civil war believe that there were three times as many of them.
It is worth dwelling in more detail on qualitative composition, those who found themselves in the camp of enemies. Volunteer assistants, or as the Germans called them "Our Ivans", soldiers from construction battalions cannot be attributed to the ideological enemies of the Soviet regime. In the same way, the “Ostarbeiters”, the Eastern workers, driven away on a voluntary-compulsory basis, do not fall under this category, although their work undoubtedly freed German soldiers for the front. But in combat logs there is practically no information about the involvement of the hiwi category in combat operations, especially of Slavic nationalities.
Asian battalions were documented, consisting of Caucasians, Turks, Tatars. They account for over 100,000 armed units. The Balts with their volunteer regiments, three SS divisions and police battalions also account for 100 thousand. In Belarus, the battalions were formed from Belarusians, Ukrainians, Russians, the remnants of the Kaminsky brigade, Cossacks. The 30th SS division was based on them, which was subsequently used to fill the 1st Vlasov division.Western Ukraine, consider Galicia, added about 30,000 people to the Wehrmacht. Cossacks in this layout are about 70 thousand recruited.
They also got into the service of the Germans in different ways. Until the summer of 1942, the eastern border and police units were staffed with volunteers from the local population and prisoners of war. Since the summer of 1942, the nature of recruitment has become voluntary-compulsory, when service in the police becomes an alternative to being deported to Germany or sent to a camp. Since 1943, compulsory military service was introduced for the population in the occupied territory. various types self defense.
If at the beginning of the war the Slavic eastern parts trusted the security service, where they replaced the security battalions of the Wehrmacht, then after the start of the mass transition of "volunteer assistants" to the partisans, the Germans disarmed 5-6 thousand volunteers as unreliable, and sent the rest to France and Denmark.
On the eastern front, mainly Asian battalions remained, which by 1944 for the most part were transferred to the Western Wall. The parts of the Eastern Turkic and Caucasian SS formations that remained in the east took part in the suppression of the Warsaw and Slovak uprisings.
In the West - in France, Belgium and the Netherlands before the invasion allied forces there were 70 thousand people from the Slavic, Asian and Cossack battalions. In combat, they showed themselves for the most part weakly, and after a large percentage of desertion, they were transferred from active parts for defensive work. Subsequently joined the Vlasov army.
The largest number troops to the front gave the Baltic states. In addition to the three SS divisions, volunteer battalions and police regiments took part in the fighting on the eastern front. The most successful can be considered the 20th Estonian SS division, which fought fiercely near Narva.Even on account ROA army one attack was recorded on April 13, 1945 against Soviet troops. After that, the army arbitrarily left the position and moved to join with the rest of Vlasov's army in the Czech Republic. In May, they fought on the side of the Allies against the Nazis, attacking their troops in Prague.
The driving forces among this mass were various desires and aspirations.
The national separatists fought for the creation of their own national state and they did not care with whom to unite and against whom to fight in order to achieve own purpose. This category includes the Balts, Asian legionnaires and Galicians. Next to them, you can put stubborn opponents of the regime - the Cossacks, whose actions are also based on national separatist ideas. Most were those who bet on the winner and joined the Nazis during their victories, but began to desert after the defeats. This also includes those who tried to break out of the camp and go over to their side at an opportunity. There was also a part of those who just wanted to survive and not die of hunger.
The result is a very diverse mass, not even up to a million people, who fought each for their own and which cannot be united by one slogan, no matter how much someone would like it.