14 Facts About Vladimir Gil

Vladimir Gil joined the Komsomol in 1921 and graduated from nine classes at the Daragan-Slutskaya rail station, where he would work.

Vladimir Gil joined the Red Army in 1926 and enrolled as a cadet on 15 October 1926 at the Borisoglebsko-Leningrad cavalry school.

Vladimir Gil was appointed a platoon commander in the 32nd Beloglinsky cavalry regiment on 1 September 1929 by order of the Revolutionary Military Council.

Vladimir Gil joined the Communist Party in 1931 with the ID number 0268567.

On 19 September 1937, Vladimir Gil was ordered to the Mikhail Frunze Military Academy, from which he graduated with honors in 1940.

On 19 May 1940, Vladimir Gil was appointed the head of fifth headquarters unit of the 12th Cavalry Division and then as head of the 8th Mechanized Brigade on 28 November.

Vladimir Gil was again reassigned on 22 March 1941, this time as chief of staff for the 229th Rifle Division, under the 69th Rifle Corps in the 20th Army.

Vladimir Gil later alleged that he had been wounded when he was captured, but his German documentation states that he was healthy when he was captured.

Vladimir Gil became the commandant of the Russian prisoners at the camp, where inmates lived in very poor conditions and suffered a typhus outbreak.

Vladimir Gil placed its German staff and White Russian members under arrest.

Two days later, Vladimir Gil met with Ivan Petrovich Genenko and Roman Naumovich Machulsky, members of the Communist Party of Byelorussia.

Vladimir Gil was awarded the Order of the Red Star on 16 September 1943 for the defection of his unit and its activities as a partisan unit.

Rumors have persisted such as that Vladimir Gil was a Soviet agent covertly inserted into German-occupied Soviet territory and were noted by Soviet historian Mikhail Tokarev.

Tokarev discovered that the NKGB had quickly infiltrated the 1st Russian Waffen-SS and that Vladimir Gil's first lieutenant was an informer.