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The Russian Liberation Army (German: Russische Befreiungsarmee; Russian: Русская освободительная армия, Russkaya osvoboditel'naya armiya, abbreviated as РОА, ROA, also known as the Vlasov army (Власовская армия, Vlasovskaya armiya) was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II.
Even though no Russian Liberation Army yet existed, the Nazi propaganda department issued Russian Liberation Army patches to Russian volunteers and tried to use Vlasov's name in order to encourage defections. Several hundred thousand former Soviet citizens served in the German army wearing this patch, but never under Vlasov's own command.
In 2007, Navalny co-founded the National Russian Liberation Movement, known as NAROD (The People), which sets immigration policy as a priority. [447] The movement allied itself with two nationalist groups, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration and Great Russia. [448]
The Russian Liberation Army. ... “In dedication to the participants of the liberation movement of the peoples of Russia falling in the fight for freedom, 1941-1945,” a dedication says.
' PEOPLE ') was a Russian nationalist political movement that existed in Russia from 2007 to 2011. The movement defined itself as "the first democratic nationalist movement in the modern history of Russia." [1] The co-founders of the movement were Alexei Navalny, Zakhar Prilepin, journalist Sergei Gulyaev and many others. [2]
Russian state media has rarely mentioned "Freedom of Russia" during 2022. For example, as of July 2022, RT had only one video which mentioned the Legion. [24] State-controlled Russian media and pro-Kremlin Telegram channels have promoted claims calling the Legion fake or alleging it was created by Ukrainian intelligence.
After the end of October 1944 the brigade was disbanded and the remaining personnel absorbed into General Andrey Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army. After the war, former members of the brigade and supporters of the Lokot Autonomy formed a partisan movement, which slowly degenerated into organized crime groups and was suppressed in 1951. [9] [10]
To that moment, the movement had a regional network throughout Russia, also it had supporters and branches in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, [13] Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, Estonia, the Czech Republic and Germany. In 2016, members of the movement participated in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.