Russian Liberation Army
Nazi Germany military unit mostly composed of Soviet defectors in World War II
Russian Liberation Army
The Russian Liberation Army (German: Russische Befreiungsarmee; Russian: Русская освободительная армия, romanized: Russkaya osvoboditel'naya armiya, abbr. РОА, ROA), also known as the Vlasov army (Власовская армия, Vlasovskaya armiya) was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of former Soviet prisoners of war, that fought under German command during World War II. From January 1945, the army was led by Andrey Vlasov, a Red Army general who had defected, and members of the army are often referred to as Vlasovtsy (Russian: Власовцы, lit. 'Vlasovites'). In 1944, it was designated as the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (Russian: Вооружённые силы Комитета освобождения народов России, romanized: Vooruzhonnyye sily Komiteta osvobozhdeniya narodov Rossii, abbreviated as Russian: ВС КОНР, romanized: VS KONR). Vlasov agreed to collaborate with Nazi Germany after having been captured on the Eastern Front. The soldiers of the ROA command were mostly...
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