The link contains a bunch of lulz and tons of crap for 1.5 thousand comments - not without my participation.
As befits the propagandists-guardians of the so-called. letter so-called bloggers are filled with blatant lies, distortions and substitution of concepts - which is not surprising for the guardian propagandists standing guard over their liberal mistresses. What kind of housewives are such mongrels - arrogant, lying, stupid scum. And their ribbon is “St. George’s”, and not the Guards’, as it is written in black and white in its Statute. And the tricolor was not used by Vlasov and other paramilitary units of collaborators (like Hitler banned!), and other lies designed for weak-minded, illiterate idiots. It’s like it’s the 90s now and you can just as brazenly and uncontrollably shit in people’s brains. But at least piss in their eyes, bishop. Although many of the signatories and participants in the mega-fight are, in some places, quite sane and patriotic citizens. But only with brains crap from 25 years of propaganda. And there is practically no difference from zombie dill.
Let's figure it out. To begin with, about the tricolor. I already wrote about the ribbon and the rest - links at the end of the article.
KONR brochure, 1944, - the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia - a political body created with the participation of the authorities of Nazi Germany to overthrow the existing political system in the USSR and united the Russians and a number of national organizations operating in territories controlled by Nazi Germany.
IN Lately, in view of the extremely negative attitude of Russian society towards the so-called Vlasov army, ideological movements began to separate it from its flag - the state flag of the Russian Federation, known as white-blue-red. Russian Liberation Army, ROA - historically established name armed forces Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), who fought on the side of the Third Reich against the USSR, as well as the totality of the majority of Russian anti-Soviet units and units of Russian collaborators within the Wehrmacht in 1943-1944, formed by various German military structures (the headquarters of the SS Troops, etc.) n.) during the Great Patriotic War, led by the famous traitor General A.A. Vlasov. As a flag, she used a flag with the St. Andrew's Cross, as well as the Russian tricolor, which is documented in the footage of the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943 and in the photo chronicle of the formation of the Vlasovites in Munsingen.
The use of the Russian tricolor in ROA units is confirmed by one of their marching songs - the so-called “March of the Russian Liberation Army”:
We are walking, with a tricolor flag above us.
We walk through our native fields.
Our motive is carried by the winds
And they are carried to the Moscow domes.
http://www.roa.ru/musik.html
And so, when everything had long been established precisely, absurd statements like these suddenly began to appear: It is a reliably known fact that when forming such units, the Germans banned the use of the white-blue-red three-stripe flag, clearly fearing Russian national symbols. This data can be gleaned from the memoirs of V. Shtrik-Strikfeldt “Against Stalin and Hitler,” a Russian German seconded to A.A. Vlasov: “Gradually, all the so-called “national military units” in the German army received badges with the national colors of their peoples . Only the largest people - the Russians - were denied this. This issue urgently required a solution. But even here difficulties arose. Historical Russian national colors - white-blue-red - were banned." (Russian flags during the Second World War)
To improve visibility, the flag is artificially colored.
Along with this data, the German writer Sven Steenberg argued that the flag of the ROA was Andreevsky. The ROA sleeve chevron was an Andreev shield with a red edging. Photographs of the famous Prague meeting of the KONR on November 14, 1944 clearly show that the stage is decorated with two huge banners: the Nazi flag with a swastika and the St. Andrew's flag. There is an opinion that the ROA flag was also a white-blue-red flag, but it was banned by the Germans. The Russian artist A. N. Rodzevich was involved in the development of the symbols of the ROA. He made nine sketches, all of which were dominated by the colors of the old Russian flag - white, blue and red. The sketches were submitted to the Imperial Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories for approval. Rosenberg personally crossed out all nine, after which the sketches came back, prompting a bitter remark from Vlasov: “I would have left it that way - the Russian flag, crossed out by the Germans out of fear of it.” Then Malyshkin suggested using the St. Andrew's Cross, and the sketch, which ultimately received Rosenberg's approval, was a blue St. Andrew's Cross on a white field. In the footage of the parade of the 1st Guards Brigade of the ROA in Pskov on June 22, 1943, there is a white-blue-red flag. But there the white-blue-red flag was used as a symbol of the Russian people, Russia and the White Army. (Steenberg S. General Vlasov. - M.: Eksmo, 2005)
So, the Germans banned the tricolor because they didn’t like it, these scribblers claim. But besides the ROA, Hitler also had other units of Soviet traitors.
The Russian National People's Army (RNNA) (Sonderverband “Graukopf” (“Special Unit “Gray Head”)) is an armed paramilitary formation formed in the occupied territory of the USSR and took part in the Second World War on the side of the Third Reich.
Lieutenant V.A. Ressler, Colonel K.G. Kromiadi and senior doctor Razumovsky. Osintorf, 1942. Ressler and Kromiadi are dressed in Soviet uniforms with RNNA shoulder straps and tricolor cockades.
“For the cockade of the headdress, the colors of the Russian national flag were taken - white, blue and red. Due to the lack of suitable material, they were made from cloth and cardboard. Of course, our flag was white, blue and red,” he writes in his book “For the Land, for Freedom!” Colonel of the White Army K. G. Kromiadi.
“Green Army of Special Purpose” - 1st Russian National Army - Division “Russland” - a military formation that operated as part of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War under the leadership of B. A. Smyslovsky (an Abwehr officer operating under the pseudonym Arthur Holmston) - went into battle wearing the tricolor.
Sleeve insignia of the “Special Division of General Smyslovsky”, 1943
Why did the fascists, who supposedly didn’t like the tricolor so much that they allegedly banned Vlasov from using it, allowed the tricolor to everyone who liked it? Where is the logic? Why was a white-blue-red flag used at the KONR meeting in Riga in 1944?
Why was the blue and red cockade worn on the right sleeve the distinctive badge of the KONR Armed Forces? The answer is obvious - no one in Hitler’s army banned the tricolor; the ROA simply used two flags to expand the range of attracting volunteers. Today's Vlasovites select chronicle footage where only one of the hung flags is captured by the camera lens, and present them as proof of the “innocence” of their symbol, saying that the participants in the events have already died, there are no ROA museums - go figure. (For the main collaborator of the Kremlin junta, Gena Zyuganov, the tricolor has long ceased to be a Vlasov skirt; now he calls it “the desecrated Vlasov.”) Modern Vlasovites themselves admit their lies when, between statements about the Nazis banning the tricolor, they insert phrases like, “But there is white and blue -The red flag was used as a symbol of the Russian people, Russia and the White Army." Like, yes, they banned it, but they used it, but not as Vlasovites, but as the Russian people.
And although the order of the Main Staff of the Wehrmacht Ground Forces (OKH) 500/43 on the introduction of the uniform and insignia of the Russian Liberation Army for the “Vlasovites” prescribed stripes and a flag in the form of St. Andrew’s oblique cross (another Russian symbol defaced by betrayal), Himmler allowed Vlasov use the "state" white-blue-red flag.
On February 16, 1945, the white-blue-red tricolor was solemnly raised over the military training ground and barracks in Munsingen, where the 1st and 2nd divisions of the ROA were formed (according to German numbering - 600th and 650th). On this day, Vlasov, like Yeltsin later, declared this flag to be the flag of “free Russia.”
But even if the tricolor really was not the official flag of the ROA, its widespread use by other units of traitors who fought with Hitler against their people still makes it the flag of traitors, traitors, and scum. And it doesn’t matter that these traitors practically did not take part in the fighting at the front, as the current liberal traitors are trying to justify. The important thing is that they betrayed the Oath. And moreover, they swore allegiance to the enemies - the Third Reich and Hitler personally. And they definitely took part in punitive actions against their own people.
It is worth recalling that for the first time in the occupied territory of the USSR, the red-blue-white flag was raised in November 1941 in the so-called. "Lokot Republic". It was from these traitors that the first punitive detachments and RONA were formed to suppress the local population. They were later reorganized into the 129th SS Brigade and sent to Belarus to fight partisans and suppress the Warsaw Uprising. There will be a separate article about that. The RONA emblem is the same tricolor:
When the Nazi occupiers occupied another city, the first thing they did was catch and hang all the communists, and the second thing was to open the Orthodox Church. From here you can see who was Hitler’s enemy and who was his friend. In Hitler's army there was not and could not be a red banner with a sickle, a hammer, and a star, but any traitor carried the state flag of the Russian Federation in it. And here we see under which symbol people were supporters of Hitler, and under which opponents. The 70th anniversary is approaching" great victory", which the Kremlin Vlasovites stole from the Soviet people, it’s worth remembering this so that there are no illusions that they have stopped hanging Vlasovites...
About the Russian tricolor, history - why it has never been the official state flag of Russia.
"Flag Day" was established by Yeltsin's decree. Why exactly August 22 is clear to anyone who has even the slightest idea about the events of August 1991 and the collapse of the USSR. Yeltsin's decree states that this day is established in honor of the restoration of "the historical Russian tricolor state flag, covered with the glory of many generations of Russians." We’ll talk a little about this glory.
Existed for two centuries as a trade flag Russian fleet The blue-white-red tricolor was approved as a national color only in 1896, at the very beginning of the reign of Nicholas II. All the unlucky time of this last emperor passed under this flag. From the not at all victorious Russo-Japanese War (where a bravely fighting army - by the way, under completely different banners - was defeated precisely because of the total inability of an already decayed state to exert itself) to the complete and absurd collapse of the Empire in February 1917.
Further, the blue-white-red tricolor did not long overshadow the ever-increasing state chaos of the Provisional Government.
By the spring of 1918, the Bolsheviks changed the national flag to red. And then the blue-white-red tricolor appeared again. Strangely enough, it was the Czechs who raised it above all and first then - the so-called. The Czechoslovak Corps, whose rebellion in May 1918 began a large-scale civil war in Russia. As a standard, the Slavic brothers from the moment of their formation, when the tsarist government in 1916 decided to create Slavic legions from Austro-Hungarian prisoners, used the blue-white-red tricolor, since its colors coincide with the national Czech and Slovak ones.
The 70,000-strong, well-armed and organized Czechoslovak corps, stretching from the Volga region to Vladivostok, in agreement with British and French intelligence, raised an anti-Bolshevik rebellion and, in fact, destroyed Russia in one day. There were no other such significant and organized “whites” in the country - Kornilov with a couple of thousand volunteers got lost somewhere in the Kuban steppes, and Kolchak traveled from the USA to Japan.
Overshadowed by the blue-white-red flag, the Czechs invented and used, perhaps the first in the world, still primitive gas chambers - the Czech occupiers destroyed Bolshevik prisoners in the holds of river barges filled with bleach. However, the Bolsheviks were lucky, the Czechs were ready to kill, but not die, and after the first rebuff they received, they chose to leave Russia through America to their native Bohemia, stealing most of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire along the way.
We inherited from the Czech occupiers a large-scale civil war and Admiral Kolchak, who proclaimed himself the Supreme Ruler of Russia, and the white-blue-red tricolor - accordingly, the state flag. In 1918, the United States alone gave Kolchak more than 200 thousand rifles and 150 thousand pairs of boots. In 1919 this assistance increased significantly. This year Kolchak received from the United States 381 thousand rifles, 963 machine guns and about 200 thousand sets of uniforms. In total, the United States transferred various materials and weapons worth $187 million to Kolchak. Still those dollars from the beginning of the last century. In modern times, this is more than tens of billions. But the USA was not even the main sponsors; there were also the British and Japanese empires, France!
Kolchak is, of course, a talented sailor, a strong personality, but it is also a fact that in modern terminology he is the very “fifth column” that exists with Washington’s money. And not in propaganda myths, but quite realistically. Advancing on red Moscow, the white admiral had a very reliable rear- Russian occupied by Americans and Japanese Far East. Kolchak was very nice and polite with the occupiers. Enviable patriotism. Well, the number of victims of Kolchak’s terror during the Civil War exceeded the Red Terror in those places. It was Kolchak who left the first depopulated villages in the Urals and Siberia.
In the North of Russia, the blue-white-red flag also gained unfading glory during the civil war. This tricolor was officially adopted by the so-called “Provisional Government of the Northern Region,” which was formed from Russian collaborators by the British occupiers who captured Murmansk and Arkhangelsk in 1918. This “government” even sent an official invitation to the British to occupy the Russian North. And it was precisely this organization that organized the first concentration camps on the islands of the White Sea, incl. on the famous Solovki.
In June 1919, the British staged a military parade in Arkhangelsk in honor of the birthday of their king. The parade was commanded by General Ironside, head of the occupation forces. The British even drove the so-called through the streets of the city under the red, white and blue flag. Daer's battalion - formed from prisoners of Arkhangelsk prisons and named after the British captain killed by the Red partisans. This all reminds us of modern-day occupied Iraq, doesn't it?
In the South of Russia, the Whites also fought under the blue-white-red flag, using a combination of these colors and in various details of the uniform. Among them there were many convinced and honest people, which, however, did not prevent them from accepting foreign military assistance and fighting against Red Russia, even when the Polish occupiers seized the original Russian lands.
After the end of the civil war, the blue-white-red flag was waved by various white émigré organizations, which, in alliance with foreign intelligence services, tried to harm the USSR in every possible way.
Well, with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the tricolor fanned itself with truly unfading glory - without a statute of limitations, as liability for crimes against humanity!
The first in the occupied territory of the USSR to raise the red-blue-white flag in November 1941 was in the so-called. "Lokot Republic" - here, on the territory of several districts of the Kursk and Oryol regions with a center in the city of Lokot (now Bryansk region), the Germans conducted an experiment on " local government". Here, with the help of local collaborators led by Chief Burgomaster Voskoboinik (he called himself “the governor of Elbow and the surrounding land”), the Germans fought the partisans in their immediate rear. They fought so that in two years the traitors under the white-blue-red over 10,000 civilians were killed with the flag, over 200 were burned alive. Ordinary victims were shot, underground activists and others. partisan movement they were hanged, and some were publicly beheaded.
On the state of affairs in the Lokot district, the Minister of the Occupied Eastern Territories Rosenberg (the author of the project on the “destruction of biological potential Soviet Union") reported to Hitler in a special note. The Fuhrer was actually against any cooperation with Slavic subhumans, but allowed Rosenberg to continue this experiment in “local self-government.”
Lokot collaborators, in a fit of enthusiasm and breaks between punitive operations, officially proclaimed the blue-white-red tricolor “state”, wrote their own criminal code, following the example of the NSDAP, created the “National Socialist Labor Party of Russia”, announced economic reform and adopted a bunch of manifestos on the fight against Judeo-Bolsheviks. They also formed the "Russian People's Liberation Army" under the same b.-s.-k. tricolor and tricolor chevrons on German and police uniforms. A real sovereign democracy!
When in January 1942 our partisans killed the “governor of Lokot and the surrounding land” Voskoboynik, the place of the leader of the Lokot sovereign democracy was taken by his deputy Bronislav Kaminsky. He began by renaming the city of Lokot to Voskoboynik, and adapted “Tonka the Machine Gunner”, who soon became famous in the region, for the execution of partisans and civilians. Former nurse Antonina Makarova became, perhaps, the executioner with the largest personal account in the entire history of the Great Patriotic War - only her victims, subsequently documented by the Soviet court, exceeded 1,500 people. She shot Russian people with a machine gun in a specially equipped room in a former stable. For each execution, Tonka received, symbolically, 30 German marks. And all this Judas’ work was illuminated by the white-blue-red flag of the Rosenberg experiment, the one that now flutters over the Kremlin and other government buildings in Russia! "Tonka the Machine Gunner", by the way, was found and shot only many years after the war - in 1978. This was the last trial in the USSR of a traitor from the era of the Great Patriotic War.
In 1943, as our troops approached, the Germans transferred their minions under the white-blue-red flag further to the rear - to Belarus to fight the partisans. Here they also left their mark in the form of shot residents and burned villages. In the summer of 1944, the collaborators were transformed into the 129th SS Brigade and sent to suppress the Warsaw Uprising. In Warsaw, only on August 5, 1944, according to the Germans themselves, Kaminsky’s brigade massacred 15 thousand people, finishing off the last Jews not exterminated by the Germans. But the trouble is, in the Polish General Government of the Third Reich there lived not only Poles, but also Germans. The Kaminsky bandits did not know languages and robbed everyone indiscriminately, and in addition they raped the entire delegation German girls from the organization “Strength through Joy” (sort of Hitler’s “Ours” for girls). SS Brigadeführer Kaminsky, under the white-blue-red flag, realizing that the Germans would not pat him on the head for these arts, tried to flee to the Carpathians to the Banderaites, but in the south of Poland he was detained by the Gestapo and shot.
The remnants of Kaminsky’s brigade were transferred to Germany to the Munsingen military training ground, where it was from them that they began to form the 1st division of the ROA, the very “Russian Liberation Army” of General Vlasov, whose name became a household name.
Almost everyone knows about the Vlasovites. It is less known that there were several attempts to form the Vlasov army. The first was crowned with a parade in German-occupied Pskov on June 22, 1943, where the so-called "consolidated company Guards Division ROA". But almost until the end of the war, all statements by Vlasov and his associates about the "Russian Liberation Army" were purely propaganda in nature - Hitler was categorically against the creation of any independent Russian formations with any state symbols (the only exception was made for Rosenberg with his "Lokotsky experiment").
Collaborators were used by the Germans in various auxiliary and rear battalions. Many of them wore armbands, chevrons or cockades with white, blue and red flags. In addition, on the side of the Germans in the Balkans and in the occupied territory of the USSR, formations of former White Guards also operated under the blue-white-red tricolor, bearing pompous names like “Russian National Army"or "Russian National People's Army." All these warriors were mainly engaged in cleansing operations and fighting partisans.
And only at the end of 1944, when the drowning Germans began to clutch at any straw, after a personal meeting with the head of the SS Himmler, the traitor Vlasov received permission to actually form the “Russian Liberation Army”, with the official status of an ally German Reich. And although the order of the Main Staff of the Wehrmacht Ground Forces (OKH) 500/43 on the introduction of the uniform and insignia of the Russian Liberation Army for the “Vlasovites” prescribed stripes and a flag in the form of St. Andrew’s oblique cross (another Russian symbol defaced by betrayal), Himmler allowed Vlasov use the "state" white-blue-red flag.
On February 16, 1945, the white-blue-red tricolor was solemnly raised over the military training ground and barracks in Munsingen, where the 1st and 2nd divisions of the ROA were formed (according to German numbering - 600th and 650th). On this day, Vlasov, like Yeltsin later, declared this flag to be the flag of “free Russia.”
For some comparison - very close on the same day, in the evening, at concentration camp Mauthausen brought in about a thousand Soviet prisoners of war. All night the German guards doused the prisoners. ice water from fire hoses. By morning, out of a thousand, only seven dozen remained alive. An officer was among the dead tsarist army, General of the Soviet Army Dmitry Karbyshev. Those who remained faithful to the Motherland and the oath died a martyr’s death, and the traitors to the oath and the Motherland that day raised the blue-white-red tricolor and drank German schnapps for “free Russia.”
The first attempt at military use of the Vlasovites took place in February 1945 - the Germans sent traitors to attack one of our bridgeheads on the Oder, which directly threatened Berlin. In April, the 1st Division of the ROA (the 2nd Division was never formed until the end of the war) was defeated near Fürstenberg and left the front without permission, going to the Czech Republic, where it tried to support the Prague Uprising, thereby abandoning everyone. Which, however, did not help the traitors! The Vlasovs, Krasnovs and other lovers of waving the white-blue-red flag to the delight of our enemies were hanged by court verdict.
Next after Rosenberg and Vlasov is the history of b.-s.-k. Yeltsin continued the tricolor. Well, you don’t need to explain anything about him to anyone.
This is, in fact, the whole history of this flag, all, in the words of Yeltsin’s decree, “the glory of many generations of Russians.” Glory, where, between the shameful Russian-Japanese and Chechen wars (shameful not for soldiers and officers, but for state power), a whole century of history of betrayal, bloody cooperation with interventionists and occupiers, a history of disintegration and collapse fit in Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
The “Russian Liberation Army” was created by the German military command in its own interests; it was financed, armed, and equipped by it. The German command with the participation of Russian opponents Soviet system(mainly from among emigrants) uniforms and insignia were developed. As such, this army did not exist until the late autumn of 1944. Until that time, the name “Russian Liberation Army” was rather a collective, generalizing name for all armed formations from among Soviet citizens who acted on the side of Germany.
The Wehrmacht experienced serious difficulties in supplying uniforms to its soldiers. Initially, the Wehrmacht uniform was established in 1935, and with the beginning of the Second World War, already in 1940 the uniform began to be simplified and cheaper, in 1943 it became extremely simple, and by 1944 reserves of captured fabrics and uniform items were put into use. Moreover, the German command did not consider it possible to achieve a strictly defined form for the ROA.
The first insignia for them should be considered a white armband with a black inscription "Jm Dienst der Deutshen Wehrmacht" (In the service of the German Armed Forces). As these individuals accumulated, they began to form security units and counter-partisan units. They began to be called "eastern battalions". They had mostly Soviet uniforms, which the Germans gave them from fairly large captured reserves. Apparently, on their own, the employees of these battalions began to wear tricolor (white-blue-red) stripes on their headdresses. The same colors appeared on the armbands. In the summer of 1942, the deputy commander of the Volkhov Front and at the same time the commander of the 2nd Shock Army, Lieutenant General A.A. Vlasov, surrendered. He suggested that the German command create from among their opponents Soviet power volunteer Russian liberation army. From about this time, all participants in the struggle against the Red Army and partisans received the collective name “Russian Liberation Army,” abbreviated as ROA, and in common parlance “Vlasovites.”
Today, voices do not cease to justify the “Vlasov movement” or “political anti-Stalinist resistance.” But none of this happened, just as there was no “bright personality”, military leadership talent and an outstanding military leader who decided to fight against the Stalinist regime. He was simply a traitor, a traitor and a coward, who accidentally flew over the heads of his comrades in the second half of the 1930s. a careerist, a mediocre commander and general who had no combat experience, but knew how to speak a lot and well “on behalf of the people.” The theme of betrayal is an eternal theme and it is apparently impossible to know it from beginning to end, just as it is impossible to understand and feel other people’s feelings and thoughts , how impossible it is to understand the deep roots of an unprecedented feat. Betrayal every time shocks and becomes, as it were, a challenge to society, and it is often committed by people with a clean biography, who at the time of the offense had reached a certain position and had certain benefits. And if only a few people resort to betrayal, then courage and heroism are mass phenomena. But often the price of betrayal is life - many people. The first document establishing insignia for the eastern battalions was the order of the Supreme High Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW) No. II/8000/42 of August 20, 1942. This order introduced a breast emblem, which the military personnel of the eastern battalions had to wear on chest, where the Germans wear the imperial eagle. A cockade in the form of a green oval with a vertical red stripe was introduced on headdresses. Buttonholes and shoulder straps were introduced. The buttonholes were light red rectangles. The shoulder straps were German with red edging. One or two braids could run along the shoulder strap (squad commander, platoon commander). Company commanders wore soutache double cords from German officer shoulder straps instead of shoulder straps.
It should be noted that military ranks they were not established and these are insignia for positions. A Russian could not occupy higher than the position of company commander. As before, there was no strictly defined uniform for the eastern battalions. They had to wear these insignia on the clothes they had. However, wearing these insignia was often not carried out. It is interesting to note that RNNA personnel were not forbidden to wear Soviet awards, such as the Order of the Red Banner of Battle. In photographs of that time one can see a wide variety of insignia in the most bizarre combinations. For example, buttonholes met German sample- on a dark green “coil” valve, but not silver or gray, but red. Shoulder straps with white edging with transverse braided stripes similar to non-commissioned officer stripes of the Russian Tsarist Army. In one of the photographs of that time, one could see an officer of one of the anti-partisan formations in a Red Army commander's uniform with crimson Soviet command buttonholes, but the cubes were transferred from the buttonholes to German-style shoulder straps. On his head is a Soviet command cap with the cockade of a soldier of the Russian Tsarist Army. And….the Order of the Red Banner of Battle on the chest.
On April 29, 1943, Order No. 500/43 of the Main Staff of the Wehrmacht Ground Forces (OKH) was issued on the introduction of uniforms and insignia of the Russian Liberation Army. By Directive No. 14124/43 of May 29, 1943, these insignia are introduced for all Russian military formations taking part in the war on the side of Germany, and all other insignia are abolished. However, basically everyone limited themselves to sewing the ROA patch on the sleeve above the elbow (some on the left, some on the right, and some on both sleeves). Firstly, many chose to wear German insignia and uniforms, although this was prohibited and in some cases persecuted by the Germans. Secondly, there were significant difficulties in the manufacture and supply of insignia. But this patch became popular and was used until the end of the war.
There were three types of rank badges for headdresses. The soldier's and non-commissioned officer's cockade was simply a blue oval with a red center, the officer's had a silver "shine" around the oval, and the general's had a golden "shine". Buttonholes were also provided in three types - soldier's. and non-commissioned officer, officer, general. The officer's and general's buttonholes were edged with silver and gold flagella, respectively. However, there was a buttonhole that could be worn by both soldiers and officers. This buttonhole had a red border. A gray German button was placed at the top of the buttonhole, and a 9mm ran along the buttonhole. aluminum galloon. The shoulder straps of soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers were of the Russian tsarist army type and were sewn from dark green fabric with red edging. Officers had one or two narrow red stripes along their shoulder straps. General's shoulder straps were also of the royal type, but the same green shoulder straps with red edging were more common, and the general's "zig-zag" was depicted with a red stripe. The placement of insignia among non-commissioned officers roughly corresponded to the tsarist army. For officers and generals, the number and placement of stars (German model) corresponded to the German principle.
By the autumn of 1944, Germany faced the most acute problem of a shortage of personnel to replenish its troops. Hitler made increasingly intensified attempts to intensify his participation in the battles against the Red Army of his allies, but as he advanced Soviet troops to the west, Hitler's allies increasingly categorically refused to send their soldiers to the Eastern Front. Under these conditions, it was decided to involve numerous Russian military formations in the battles.
The Germans allowed Russian activists of anti-Bolshevik organizations to convene the founding congress of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) on November 14, 1944 in Prague. At this congress, representatives of the German command announced permission to create the Armed Forces of the KONR, led by General Vlasov. Already on November 23, the formation of the 1st ROA division began at the Musingen training ground (Württenberg). On February 1, 1945, the Germans gave the Armed Forces of the KONR the status of an allied army.
The Germans took an unprecedented step - they began to issue German uniforms model 1940 to the formed ROA units. The picture shows an ROA officer (senior lieutenant) in the fall of 1944 in full uniform. It has interesting features. There is no German imperial eagle or other fascist symbol on the cap and the right side of the chest. Obviously, the leadership of the ROA, as it were, showed their detachment from Hitler’s regime and hoped for fairly acceptable conditions for surrender to the Allies. Or does this form reflect the degree to which the Vlasovites lost hope in Germany and Hitler.
In February 1945, the last two elements of the ROA insignia appeared. These are sleeve patches designed to replace the ROA patch. One of them is a KONR patch instead of a ROA patch. The second patch is interesting. With its help, the Vlasov command wanted to try to present their divisions as national divisions of the Wehrmacht. In this case, the Vlasovites could count on the status of German prisoners of war, not subject to extradition to the USSR. However, very few of these patches were produced and they almost never made it to the ROA divisions. And it was hardly possible to disguise the real state of affairs with stripes.
Literature
1. S.Drobyazko, A.Karashchuk. World War II 1939-45. Russian Liberation Army. Publishing house Akt. 1998
On August 22, Russia celebrates its flag holiday. Today, Russian people will begin to indulge in reflection: “Where did the Russian tricolor come from?”, “Why did we choose the banner of the Vlasovites?” There is no way to leave these questions unanswered. I'll have to answer.
1. How did we end up under this flag?
Every citizen of Russia who has a solid “B” in his school certificate in history knows that the Russian tricolor appeared in our country thanks to Peter the Great. But if you studied at a school with an in-depth study of history, or your teacher was a vexillologist, then you know something completely different - correct. The first tricolor appeared in Russia earlier, during the reign of the first tsar from the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich. In 1634, an embassy from the Duke of Holstein, Frederick III, arrived at the court of Mikhail Fedorovich. In addition to diplomatic issues, the embassy also decided on the construction of ten ships on the Volga for travel to Persia. The first ship, the Frederick, was launched in 1636. Its life as a ship was short, but it sailed under the Holstein flag, suspiciously similar to our current tricolor. So the tricolor flag was revealed to the eyes of the Russian people, but while it was not a Russian flag, it became Russian (or almost Russian) under Alexei Mikhailovich. Alexey Mikhailovich chose this flag for the first Russian frigate Orel. Dutch engineer Davyd Butler asked the tsar which flag to put on the ship. Russia did not yet have its own flag, and the frigate’s crew consisted entirely of Dutch people, so without hesitation it was decided to put up a flag identical to the Dutch one, which, of course, is at least strange. To go to sea under the Protestant flag for the Russian sailors of that time, who were 80 percent Pomors, was equivalent to if they had also taken on board an escort of women, made a solemn sacrifice of a seagull right on the deck, installed several coffins in the hold and violated other signs . There is only one conclusion from this: there was not a single Orthodox Christian on board the Orel. Although, a ship is a ship. Ship flags used to be a complete formality; they were changed before entering ports; trade could not be jeopardized. In general, the tricolor first appeared on a Russian ship by accident, reaching the point of absurdity. The appearance of the tricolor under Peter also cannot be explained by the wisdom of the choice of the ruler. He just loved Holland very much. So much so that many courtiers, after the return of Peter I from the great embassy, thought that he had been replaced. In Rotterdam, a frigate with a Dutch flag, built to Peter's order, was waiting for Peter. Peter liked it so much that he decided not to change the banner either. 2. Why three colors?
The three colors on the Russian flag are associated with heraldic fashion, dating back to the Merovingians. On the banner of the Frankish king Clovis there were three toads, representing three mothers, three racial types, three psychological models worldviews: Freya, Lida and Finda. Later, toads were replaced by lilies, symbolizing first the Virgin Mary and then the Holy Trinity. There is no single meaning for the symbolism of the colors of the Russian flag. Everyone is free to believe what they want, but it is significant that the colors of the Russian flag could have been different. Initially, the Dutch flag was not red, blue and white, but instead of red it was orange. According to the official version, the Dutch were prompted to change the orange color to red by the revolution; according to the everyday version, the fact that the orange color, fading, acquired very interesting tones, even green, and the flag was similar to the “rainbow flag” popular today in certain circles. Do we want such a flag?3. Was there an alternative?
The answer to this question is clear: it was. And not alone. And not two. Much more. Firstly, the battle banners of the times of Ivan the Terrible can be considered Russian flags. They were traditional red with the image of Christ. In 1552, Russian regiments marched under him in a victorious assault on Kazan. The chronicle record of the siege of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible (1552) says: “and the sovereign ordered the Christian cherubs to unfurl, that is, the banner, on them the image of our Lord Jesus Christ, Not Made by Hands.” This banner accompanied the Russian army for a century and a half. Under Tsarina Sophia Alekseevna, it participated in the Crimean campaigns, and under Peter I - in the Azov campaign and in the war with the Swedes.
An alternative to the tricolor could be the St. Andrew's flag - white with an azure cross, in honor of the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called. The Apostle Andrew the First-Called was crucified on an oblique cross. For this reason, Christians associate the oblique cross with the name of this apostle. Andrew the First-Called in his wanderings reached the shores of the Black Sea and baptized the ancient Rus. In Rus' they were proud that the beginning of Russian Christianity was connected with the actions of the very first of Christ’s disciples. After this change, the Russian fleet began to win decisive victories in naval battles. 
Today’s flag of Russia could also be the flag of Alexei Mikhailovich, the first Russian flag. It was created in the likeness of the Streltsy banners. The flag of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich is deeply symbolic. It is based on the Cross. Thus, this flag indicates the mission of Russia in the universe, as the last bearer of the true faith - Orthodoxy. 
Finally, after the collapse of the Union, as a sign that we had once again renounced the old world (this time - from the world of dreams in developed socialism), the flag of the Romanov dynasty (black-yellow-white) could become the flag of Russia. For the first time it began to be hung on special days after 1815, following the end of the Patriotic War with Napoleonic France. By decree of Alexander II of June 11, 1858, it was introduced as a “coat of arms” flag. The designer of the flag was probably B. Kene. The black, yellow and white banner is based on the Russian heraldic tradition. Its black color is from the double-headed eagle, yellow is from the golden field of the coat of arms, and white is the color of St. George. 
There were other flags in Russia. The choice of the tricolor is associated with another farce of history, but more on that later. 4. Why are other Slavs also under this flag?
Officially, there are three versions of why “our colors” are also present on the flags of other peoples who participated in the Pan-Slavic Congress in the mid-19th century. Two of them are absurd, one is true. According to the first version, the colors are borrowed not from the Russian trade flag, but from the flag of France, and they represent, accordingly, freedom, equality and fraternity. Of course this is not true. Nicholas I, who has his own idea about these three values (radically different from the ideals french revolution) would hardly have allowed such a genesis. The second version is even weaker: these colors went to the Pan-Slavs from the Duchy of Carniola, which is the size of three Moscow. Finally, the main version is “Russian genesis”. Sponsorship and support from Russia is the main reason for the tricolor in the national flags of the Slavic peoples.5. Why did the Provisional Government choose this flag?
It didn’t actually choose him. It just didn't change him. At the Legal Meeting in April 1917, it was decided to leave the flag as a national flag. At the May meeting of the Provisional Government, the question of the flag was postponed “until resolution by the Constituent Assembly.” In fact, the tricolor remained the national flag until October revolution, legally - until April 13, 1918. when the decision was made to establish the flag of the RSFSR. During Civil War the tricolor was the flag of the Whites, Soviet army fought under the red flag.6. Why did Vlasov choose this flag?
The ROA and RNNA consisted, by and large, of white emigrants. It is not at all surprising that it was the flag of Tsarist Russia that was used by Vlasov. To fight Stalinism and Bolshevism (this is how Vlasov justified his betrayal), a better flag simply could not be found. The tricolor even took part in the ROA parade in Pskov on June 22, 1943. 7. Why did Yeltsin choose this flag?
The first person to use the tricolor after Vlasov was Garry Kasparov. During his world championship match with Anatoly Karpov (who played under the Soviet flag), Kasparov competed under the red, white and blue flag. Perestroika was underway and Garry Kimovich obviously felt where the wind was blowing and where it was blowing. By the way, Kasparov won that match. A year later he won the flag. People came to the putsch (probably an accident) with red, white and blue flags. Veterans, of whom there were much more 20 years ago, and who were also in the crowd at the House of Soviets, experienced bewilderment: they remembered the history of half a century ago. One of the flags ended up on the tank with Boris Nikolaevich. Interestingly, the Yeltsin memorial on Novodevichy Cemetery is a huge tricolor. The flag that returned with the 1991 coup. I will not remind you here that Vlasov and his army of traitors fought against Russia and our people on the side of Nazi Germany; much has already been written and said about this.
I would like to dot the i's, did the Vlasovites fight under the Russian Imperial Flag?
Now they write a lot about this on the Internet, simultaneously desecrating our state symbols. It turns out that the Vlasovites did not fight under the Tricolor, but under the likeness of Andreevsky, edged with a red ribbon, this is what the famous writes military historian Yaroslav YASTREBOV:
As you can see, the Russian national flag was banned by the Germans. They suggested that the Vlasovites take the St. Andrew’s flag - a symbol of the disappeared Russian imperial fleet, which, apparently, the Nazis no longer associated with Russia. However, today, when the St. Andrew's flag has returned to the fleet, who will dare to throw a contemptuous nickname in its direction? It never even occurs to anyone. And rightly so. So why is slander against our national flag repeated over and over again? After all, it was under this flag that our grandfathers fought in the First World War. world war. And we should be proud of this flag.
Colorblind from history
Here is the Vlasov military newspaper, which talks about the ROA flag
On the chevrons of ROA fighters we also do not see the tricolor, but an ANALOGUE of the St. Andrew’s flag in a red border.
There was an isolated case when Vlasovites marched with the Imperial Flag in Pskov, then they were banned, so where did such a monstrous myth come from?
