Andrey Vlasov

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Andrey Vlasov" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov
Андрéй Андрéевич Влáсов
Vlasov in 1942
Chairman of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
In office 14 November 1944 – May 1945
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Mikhail Meandrov[1]
Personal details
Born	(1901-09-14)September 14, 1901 Lomakino, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	August 1, 1946(1946-08-01) (aged 44) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1930–1942)
Awards	Order of the Red Banner1 Order of Lenin1 1All Soviet awards revoked after defection to Germany. Ostvolk Medal in gold with swords
Military service
Allegiance	Russian SFSR (1919–1922)  Soviet Union (1922–1942)  Nazi Germany (1942–1944) Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (1944–1945)
Years of service	1919–1945
Rank	Lieutenant general
Commands	99th Rifle Division 20th Army 2nd Shock Army Russian Liberation Army
Battles/wars	Russian Civil War Second World War

Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Власов, September 14 [O.S. September 1] 1901 – 1 August 1946) was a Soviet Red Army general and collaborator with Germany. During the Axis-Soviet campaigns of World War II he fought (1941–1942) against the Wehrmacht in the Battle of Moscow and later was captured attempting to lift the siege of Leningrad. After his capture he defected to Germany and headed the Russian Liberation Army (Russkaya osvoboditel'naya armiya, ROA). Initially this army existed only on paper and was used by Germans to goad Red Army troops to surrender; only in 1944 did Heinrich Himmler, aware of Germany's shortage of manpower, arrange for Vlasov to form a real collaborationist army formed from Soviet prisoners of war. At the war's end, Vlasov changed sides again and ordered the ROA to aid the May 1945 Prague uprising against the Germans. He and the ROA then tried to escape to the Western Front, but were captured by Soviet forces with the United States' assistance. Vlasov was tortured,^[2] tried for treason, and hanged.