36 Facts About Andrey Vlasov

In January 1945, Andrey Vlasov headed the army as it was declared that it would be no longer a part of the Wehrmacht.

Andrey Vlasov was tortured, and hanged for treason after a secret trial.

Andrey Vlasov quit the study of divinity after the Russian Revolution, briefly studying agricultural sciences instead, and in 1919 joined the Red Army.

Andrey Vlasov fought in the southern theatre in Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Crimea during the Russian Civil War, including against the White forces of Anton Denikin and Pyotr Wrangel, and the anarchist army of Nestor Makhno.

Andrey Vlasov distinguished himself as an officer and gradually rose through the ranks of the Red Army.

Andrey Vlasov was an instructor at the Frunze Military Academy.

Andrey Vlasov was the chief of staff to the head of the Soviet military mission, General Aleksandr Cherepanov.

Andrey Vlasov received a military decoration from Chiang and a watch from his wife, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, which were both taken from him after he returned to the USSR.

The historian John Erickson says of Andrey Vlasov at this point that [he] "was an up-and-coming man".

In 1940, Andrey Vlasov was promoted to major general, and on June 22,1941, when the Germans and their allies invaded the Soviet Union, Andrey Vlasov was commanding the 4th Mechanized Corps.

Andrey Vlasov then played an important role in the defense of Moscow, as his 20th Army counterattacked and retook Solnechnogorsk.

Andrey Vlasov's picture was printed in the newspaper Pravda as that of one of the "defenders of Moscow".

Andrey Vlasov was decorated on January 24,1942, with the Order of the Red Banner for his efforts in the defence of Moscow.

Andrey Vlasov was ordered to relieve the ailing commander Klykov after the Second Shock Army had been encircled.

On January 7,1942, Andrey Vlasov's army had spearheaded the Lyuban offensive operation to break the Leningrad encirclement.

Strik-Strikfeldt, who had been a participant in the White movement during the Russian Civil War, persuaded Andrey Vlasov to become involved in aiding the German advance against the rule of Joseph Stalin and Bolshevism.

Andrey Vlasov was taken to Berlin under the control of the Wehrmacht Propaganda Department.

Andrey Vlasov was permitted to make several trips to German-occupied Soviet Union: most notably, to Pskov, Russia, where Russian pro-German volunteers paraded.

Andrey Vlasov was even put under house arrest and threatened with being handed over to the Gestapo.

Despondent about his mission, Andrey Vlasov threatened to resign and return to the POW camp, but was dissuaded at the last minute by his confidants.

Disappointed, Andrey Vlasov said several times that he would return to the camp, but was dissuaded by his associates, namely Malyshkin and Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt.

Several weeks after meeting they decided to get married, even though neither one spoke each other's language and Andrey Vlasov probably knew that his first wife was still alive in the Soviet Union.

Andrey Vlasov reprimanded Bunyachenko during their meeting with Schorner in assertion of his loyalty, but privately granted Bunyachenko complete independence in sign of his approval while himself taking care of the rest two incomplete divisions.

Andrey Vlasov spoke against joining the uprising, but his position was not supported by the others, and the First Division joined the uprising.

Andrey Vlasov's division, commanded by General Sergei Bunyachenko, was captured 40 kilometres southeast of Plzen by the Soviet 25th Tank Corps, after their attempt to surrender to US troops was rejected.

Captain M I Yakushev of the 162nd Tank Brigade had Vlasov dragged out of his car, put on a tank and driven straight to the Soviet 13th Army HQ.

Andrey Vlasov was then transported from the 13th Army HQ to Marshal Ivan Konev's command post in Dresden, and from there sent immediately to Moscow.

Andrey Vlasov was confined in Lubyanka prison where he was interrogated.

Andrey Vlasov's execution was among the last death sentences in the Soviet Union carried out by hanging, after which executions were conducted only by shooting.

However, the new narrative was left-wing, being constructed by the Menshevik intellectual and historian Boris Nicolaevsky, who after visiting DP camps came to a belief that the Andrey Vlasov Movement was democratic and even anti-Nazi to some extent.

Andrey Vlasov's narrative was somewhat closer to the truth, as he, unlike the Whites, could cite Vlasovite documents, like the Prague Manifesto of the KONR.

Andrey Vlasov had treated prisoners of war as traitors", and the World War II became "a double sacrifice.

The positive attitude towards Andrey Vlasov became visible in the late 1980s, but the majority of Russian society is negative towards collaboration, although there is still no unity on this question.

Jade McGlynn and Tromly describe how Andrey Vlasov's figure became unsuitable for the Putin regime; however, it was not until 2022 when it received significant attention.

In 2001, a Russian organization "For Faith and Fatherland" applied to the Russian Federation's military prosecutor for a review of Andrey Vlasov's case, saying that "Andrey Vlasov was a patriot who spent much time re-evaluating his service in the Red Army and the essence of Stalin's regime before agreeing to collaborate with the Germans".

The military prosecutor concluded that the law of rehabilitation of victims of political repressions did not apply to Andrey Vlasov and refused to consider the case again.