Historian Every Saturday: Lado Khvedelidze. 'Russian' collaborationism during the Second World War (25.05.2024)
A lecture by historian Lado Khvedelidze (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on Russian collaborationism during the Second World War. The key point: the scale of Russian collaboration (Vlasov / ROA, the Lokot “republic” / Kaminski’s RONA, the Hiwis, ~1.5 million auxiliary policemen) serves as a mirror to the Kremlin’s myth of “Ukrainians as Nazis”; the white-blue-red tricolor (the flag of today’s Russian Federation) was the banner of collaborators. A source for the article on “Russian” collaborationism.
Key moments
- 18:38 The myth of Vlasov's 'million-strong army since 1941'; Vlasov's actual biography
- 55:59 Lokot greets the Wehrmacht under the white-blue-red tricolor (the flag of the Russian Federation)
- 58:50 Kaminski (who had suppressed the Tambov uprising) took command of RONA
- 1:02:47 Scale: ~1.5 million Schutzmannschaft auxiliary police, 800,000–1 million Hiwis; the highest proportion in Europe