Soviet generals condemned after release from German captivity: The Vlasov generals, part 2

This, the second article in an ongoing series on the fate of the Red Army general officers captured by the German Army during World War II, is perhaps the most revealing. For half a century since war's end the name General Vlasov has evoked hatred on the part of the Soviet regime and scorn on the part of citizens of the Soviet Union. A prominent Red Army wartime hero, Vlasov, the then commander of the 2d Shock Army, fell captive to the Germans in one of the Red Army's worse wartime debacles. While in captivity, Vlasov went over to the German side and attempted to raise an anti‐Bolshevik army (the Russian Liberation Army) to join the fight against Stalin's regime. Exploiting new archival materials, for the first time Alexander Maslov peels away persisting myths to document the military careers and wartime political and military activities of Vlasov and those who joined his cause. He records the grim fate of the general and those senior officers who participated in the stillborn Crusade against Bolshevism only to perish at the hands of Stalin's security organs.