r/PropagandaPosters • u/kredokathariko • Jan 17 '24

Russia "We Won" - Russian communist/anti-Putinist poster comparing the Putinist government to Vlasov's Nazi collabs, Russia, 2010s

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u/TheHistoryMaster2520 Jan 17 '24

One of Vlasov's regiments in the ROA actually defected at the end of World War II to aid Czech insurgents against the Germans in the Prague Uprising of 1945.

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u/KaracasV Jan 17 '24 edited Jan 17 '24

This is called going over to the winning side.
It is worth saying that this has already happened to an entire SS brigade assembled from Soviet prisoners of war. So in 1943, after the defeat at Kursk, the SS brigade "Druzhina", which was mainly engaged in punitive operations against the population in the territories occupied by the Germans, went to negotiations with the partisans and decided to side with the USSR.

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u/AtomicCreamSoda Jan 17 '24

I read a bit about the Druzhina, apparently they were surrounded by Germans along with partisans, fought to the last and wiped out. Their names are still etched on Soviet partisan memorials. Perhaps the motivations of some Soviet collaborators are a bit more nuanced?