A photo from Andrei Vlasov's execution

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A photo from Andrei Vlasov's execution

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Post by Rodrigo » 11 Mar 2003, 18:53

I found this photo in the web (http://www.vho.org/VffG/2000/1/Kovacs76-80.html). The text claim that this photo was taked by the NKVD/KGB.
Vlasov is at the right, but who are the others?
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Post by David Thompson » 11 Mar 2003, 21:08

Rodrigo -- When Soviet authorities announced Vlasov's execution on 2 Aug 1946, they listed the names of 7 other Russian Liberation Army (Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Armiya - ROA) officers who were hanged at the same time:

Buniachenko or Bunyachenko or Bunishenkov, Sergei K.
Korbukov, W.D.
Malyshkin, Vassily F.
Shatov, N.S.
Shilenkov, G.N.
Sverev. G.A.
Trukhin, F.I.

The photograph you posted probably shows two of those fellows.
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Post by Gareth Collins » 12 Mar 2003, 01:32

The fellow on the left looks like Generalmajor Sergei Buniachenko the commander of the 600. (Russische) Infanterie-Division i remember seeing a photo. The one in the middle is a mystery.

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Post by WTW26 » 13 Mar 2003, 13:44

Actually 12, not 7 officers of ROA were hanged on August 2th, 1946. They were:
Lt. General* A.Vlasov
Major General V.Malyshkin
Brigade Commissar G.Zhilenkov
Major General F.Trukhin
Major General I.Blagoveschensky
Major General D.Zakutny
Colonel V.Maltsev
Colonel S.Bunyachenko
Colonel G.Zverev
Colonel M.Meandrov
Lt. Colonel V.Korbukov
Lt. Colonel N.Shatov
The dead men on the photo must be Vlasov, Shatov and Korbukov.
*Ranks given are the last ranks held in the Red Army

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Post by michael mills » 13 Mar 2003, 14:10

The method of hanging appears particularly primitive. Obviously they were not dropped through a trapdoor.

The victims must be hanging from a beam above the top of the photo. The nooses are not visible, so not the customary rope - piano wire?

Whatever the case, the NKVD obviously wanted to make the execution as brutal as possible.

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Post by David Thompson » 16 Mar 2003, 03:44

From Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky, "KGB: The Inside Story", HarperCollins, New York: 1990, pp. 342-43; footnote on Vlasov's death to Nicholas Nyaradi, "My Ringside Seat in Moscow;" Crowell, New York: 1953, p. 155):
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Post by The Desert Fox » 16 Mar 2003, 04:44

The West certainly has a lot to answer for over the question of the so called repatriation of those who fought for the Axis back to Russia. Most joined Vaslov to escape Hitlers camps and from a belief that Russia could be freed from the butcher Stalin. I hope both Stalin and Hitler burn in hell for the suffering they gave the people of Europe.
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Post by Scrutograph » 06 Nov 2009, 22:59

All-Seeing Eye wrote:Actually 12, not 7 officers of ROA were hanged on August 2th, 1946. They were:
Lt. General* A.Vlasov
Major General V.Malyshkin
Brigade Commissar G.Zhilenkov
Major General F.Trukhin
Major General I.Blagoveschensky
Major General D.Zakutny
Colonel V.Maltsev
Colonel S.Bunyachenko
Colonel G.Zverev
Colonel M.Meandrov
Lt. Colonel V.Korbukov
Lt. Colonel N.Shatov
The dead men on the photo must be Vlasov, Shatov and Korbukov.
*Ranks given are the last ranks held in the Red Army
I think the man in the middle is Trukhin.

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Re: A photo from Andrei Vlasov's execution

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Post by VtwinVince » 07 Nov 2009, 19:07

Don't forget the cowardly role that Sweden played in the forced repatriation of Don cossacks.

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Re: A photo from Andrei Vlasov's execution

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Post by Max Williams » 08 Nov 2009, 17:09

Which one is this?
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Post by Semenov » 08 Nov 2009, 17:22

Hi,
In the middle on bottom foto is general Truchin. On Max foto he is too.

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Post by james.tew » 08 Nov 2009, 17:34

Hello Max

Correction. It's not Generalmajor Schilenkov but General F.I. Trukhin as Semenov has mentioned above

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Re: A photo from Andrei Vlasov's execution

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Post by Scrutograph » 08 Nov 2009, 18:33

The left one is Malyshkin or Bunyachenko.

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Post by Jonah89 » 21 Nov 2009, 02:56

I see this photo top of post of Vlasov being executed, I could only find one referance that he was beheaded afterwards and his head was placed on a pole? I am not sure if this statement was true or where his head was displayed and what happened to it afterwards? Do we know of any other men of the ROA being executed or if there is a site in Russian that covers their last words and execution more in detail? I see Major General Mikhail Bogdanov, Major General Aleksandr Budykho, Major General Andrei Naumov dying on the same day 19.04.1950 where they executed? Also Major General Pavel Bogdanov on 25.04.1950?

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Post by Pete26 » 10 Jul 2014, 07:37

michael mills wrote:The method of hanging appears particularly primitive. Obviously they were not dropped through a trapdoor.

The victims must be hanging from a beam above the top of the photo. The nooses are not visible, so not the customary rope - piano wire?

Whatever the case, the NKVD obviously wanted to make the execution as brutal as possible.
I can see ropes clearly above the two men on the left. They are of substantial thickness and are also visible in other photographs I have seen of Vlasov's execution. I think that piano wire speculation is not credible. The same was suggested for the 8 Hitler assassination attempt conspirators who were hanged in Plotzensee prison. A thin cord was used, but no piano wire.

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