Andrey Vlasov

Russian lieutenant general (1901–1946)

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Lived 1901–1946, aged 45

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1901–1946
Aged 45
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Updated 2026-08-17

A Red Army general who helped defend Moscow, captured at Leningrad, then turned coat to lead a collaborationist anti-Soviet army under the Third Reich. His defection made him either traitor or anti-Stalinist martyr, depending on who's remembering.

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Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov was born September 14, 1901, and rose to Soviet general, fighting the Wehrmacht in the Battle of Moscow in 1941–1942 before his capture during an attempt to lift the siege of Leningrad. After defection, he became the nominal head of the Russian Liberation Army, though the Nazis kept it a paper force for propaganda and forbade him real political or military activity until November 1944, when Himmler, desperate for manpower, authorized actual formations from Soviet POWs. Vlasov and his circle tried to build an anti-Stalinist movement independent of Nazi control, one Rob…

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