Andrey Vlasov

✶September 14, 1901

†August 1, 1946

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Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov was a Soviet Russian Red Army general. During the Axis-Soviet campaigns of World War II, he fought against the Wehrmacht in the Battle of Moscow and later was captured attempting to lift the siege of Leningrad in 1942. After his capture, he defected and collaborated with Nazi Germany. He nominally headed the Russian Liberation Army, also becoming the political leader of the Russian collaborationist anti-Soviet movement.

Russian lieutenant general (1901–1946)

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