Which Cossacks fought on the side of the Nazis. How many Cossacks fought on the side of Nazi Germany. From a talented military leader ...

We talked about the falsification of the history of the formation of the Kuban Cossack army, in which, at the suggestion of regional historians, there was no place for the Don and Khoper Cossacks, the founders of the KKV. In continuation of the topic, one cannot ignore the issue of substitution of concepts: the proclamation of true patriots of the Cossacks who fought during the Second World War on the side of Nazi Germany, and their chieftains - heroes.

Cossacks generals Naumenko and Shkuro in the 1st Cossack division

In one row

A few months ago, the whole country celebrated the 67th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, and June 22 is the day of memory and sorrow for all who died in it. Recall that 26 million 600 thousand Soviet citizens fell victims of the war against fascism, hundreds of plants, factories, cities and villages were destroyed and burned.

Every year these days we hear about patriotism, the memory of generations and how important it is to remember our history. That's just the history of that terrible war for some reason depreciates over time. There are strange rumors that the USSR acted as an aggressor; that St. George's ribbons are nothing more than a tribute to fashion. The expediency of celebrating Victory Day is called into question, they say, there are almost no eyewitnesses of those events left, why the holiday? Ten years ago, it would never have occurred to anyone to be proud that relatives "did not fight for this country." But today, when Russian veterans who "walked half of Europe" and fought "in the name of life on Earth" are beaten half to death by 20-year-old thugs, such remarks take on a frightening connotation.

History is being rewritten. Attempts to put the executioners on a par with the heroes were made even in the Kuban.

So, with the direct participation of the regional Department of Education and Science, historians of the Kuban State University, atamans, Cossack generals and Cossacks who fought on the side of Germany during the Great Patriotic War are being popularized.

Thus, the historians of KubSU and officials are trying to whitewash the ataman of the Kuban Cossack army abroad (1920-1958) Vyacheslav Naumenko. Portraits of yesterday's traitor until recently "decorated" the walls in the KKV Government, state cadet corps, headquarters, military departments and Cossack huts. And now they can be found in Cossack farms, some schools and ... in the art gallery "Atamans of the Kuban".

From a talented military leader ...

Who is Ataman Naumenko? In the village of Petrovskaya, where he was born, there is a memorial plaque and a bas-relief. It is written on the board: “In this house lived from 02/25/1883 to 03/25/1920 a talented military leader, military historian, Ataman of the Kuban Cossack army abroad, of the General Staff, Major General Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Naumenko.” But what kind of general staff are we talking about?

You should know that the major general was a fierce fighter against Bolshevism, and, accordingly, he never served in the Red Army, and even more so in the Soviet one. In 1914 - then still a podesaul - Naumenko graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff in the 1st category, was awarded an order for excellence in science and was assigned to the General Staff at the place of service (Caucasian Military District). He was promoted to the rank of major general four years later on the proposal of Wrangel, and in 1920 he emigrated from Russia to Greece, where he was elected Ataman of the Kuban Cossack army.

However, during the Second World War, the legitimacy of this election was called into question by Naumenko's associate, Peter Krasnov (Hitler's Fifth Column. From Kutepov to Vlasov. O. Smyslov). “Every Cossack knows how the elections of army atamans take place. They are produced on their native land in circles or in the Kuban army - the Kuban regional council.

After the collapse of the Volunteer Army in 1920, part of the Cossacks ended up on the island of Lemnos, after being evacuated from the Crimea. 35 members of the Rada and 58 Cossack refugees were gathered. These who happened to be on about. In Lemnos, 93 Kubans declared themselves the Kuban Regional Rada, elected Skobtsov as their chairman, and Major General Naumenko as their Kuban military ataman. The minutes of the meeting of the Rada remained unsigned, the letter of election to the military atamans was not handed over to Major General Naumenko, ”writes Krasnov.

... to the traitor

Quite a lot has been said about the tragic fate of the brilliant Russian officers and military leaders of Tsarist Russia, who were forced to flee their country. The leaders of the white movement - Kolchak, Denikin, Wrangel, Kornilov - can be understood, it was a civil fratricidal war. But how to understand those who got involved in an aggressive war against their Fatherland? Is it possible to find an excuse for them and consider them fighters for a just cause?

On October 6, 1941, the command of the ground forces of the Wehrmacht forces created Cossack units to fight the Red Army and partisans, as well as to participate in punitive operations against the population. The Germans sympathized with the Cossacks, considering them not as Slavs, but as descendants of the Goths, a people with Germanic roots. On March 30, 1944, by order of Field Marshal Keitel and General Keistring, the Main Directorate of Cossack Troops (GUKV) was created, headed by the ataman mentioned above by Peter Krasnov.

Cossack units fought on the side of the Nazis in Yugoslavia, France, Italy, and Finland. According to some reports, the Kuban traitors participated in the suppression of the uprising in Warsaw.

The exploits of Naumenko in the name of the Motherland after his defection to the side of the Nazis during World War II are ending. But at least the fact that among the former White Guard officers there were real patriots is encouraging. When the traitor General Vlasov turned to General Denikin with a proposal to fight against the Red Army on the side of the Germans, he replied: "I fought against Bolshevism, but I will not fight against the people!" In Europe, Denikin took the most direct part in organizing the anti-fascist struggle.

Ataman Naumenko participated in the formation of Cossack units from traitor Cossacks and served in the German army. As a member of the GUKV, he supported the Cossack separatists who wanted a complete break with Russia. For several months, he headed the GUKV instead of Pyotr Krasnov, who directly formed the Cossack units to fight as part of the Wehrmacht against the USSR.

By the way, the evolution of Krasnov’s worldviews is noteworthy - from a naive belief in the liberation of Russia by the “valiant German army” in 1941: “I ask you to tell all the Cossacks that this war is not against Russia, but against the Communists, Jews and their henchmen who sell Russian blood. God help the German arms and Hitler!” until the full recognition of his errors in 1947: “I am condemned for treason against Russia, for the fact that, together with her enemies, I endlessly destroyed the creative work of my people ... I find no excuse for myself.”

But back to our "hero". In March 1945, the Kuban military ataman of the general staff, Major General Naumenko, ordered the inclusion of the Kuban Cossack army in the ranks of the liberation movement of the peoples of Russia under the leadership of General Vlasov, famous for his "exploits" against the Fatherland.

In order No. 12 to the Cossack troops on the front line, Naumenko’s words are quoted: “Knowing your mood, native Kubans, knowing that you think that now is not the time to hesitate and share, I entered the submission of General Vlasov, who recognizes us, the Cossacks, everything our rights."

And what about the troops? “One should not interfere in the Vlasov movement: if it turns out that the Vlasovites are absolutely devoted allies of Nazi Germany, then it will be possible to talk about an alliance with them. In the meantime, the calculation is only on the armed forces of the Germans, ”is a quote from the concept of General Krasnov, who questioned the legitimacy of Naumenko's order. Well, it seems that the traitors of their people cost each other.

Whitewash the criminal

We have already talked about how local historians - Valery Ratushnyak and Vladimir Gromov - crossed out almost a hundred years from the history of the formation of the KKV and do not want to recognize the role of Russian atamans in the history of the development of the Kuban. Recall that in the textbook "Kuban studies" for grades 3-4 of general education schools there is not a single mention of either the linear Cossack army or the Khoper regiment - the ancestors of the KKV. The material is covered only about the Black Sea Cossack army - the Cossacks. However, our historians for some reason present Hitler's accomplice as "an example of devotion to one's work, which serves as an example for his descendants."

“The main role in this is played by the department of pre-revolutionary history of KubSU (head of the department V. Ratushnyak), - says Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural History Yuri Mishanin. - Does not mind, and even supports the praise of the accomplice of the Nazis, the department of education and science of the region (S. Zengin, V. Krylov).

The department’s response about the traitor states the following: “At the same time, Ataman Naumenko did not oppose Nazi Germany, as did, for example, General A.I. Denikin. At the same time, an episode of cooperation between V.G. Naumenko with the Wehrmacht was situational, short-term (two months) and not associated with any active actions. Therefore, it is highly unfair to put V.G. Naumenko is on a par with such generals as Krasnov and Shkuro.

The position of the department can be called at least strange. If Naumenko was a traitor for only two months, then he is not a traitor at all, and can he be admired? How many thousands of Soviet soldiers were killed in this short period? And then, what does the phrase about cooperation with the Wehrmacht, "not associated with active actions" mean? Of course, the generals did not go on the attack, perhaps they themselves did not hang and shoot “subhumans”. But in this way both Himmler and Goebbels can be justified...

The chief of staff is not just a Cossack who has gone over to the side of the enemy. After all, it is in the headquarters that plans and effective methods for destroying the enemy are developed. The head of the GUKV, General Naumenko, by proxy, shed blood hundreds and thousands of times more than each of the traitors who directly participated in the battles.

Now the defenders of the odious chieftain justify him by the fact that he saved the Cossack regalia - he retained the pernachi, mace and other attributes of the army, and therefore his betrayal can be ignored. Much is said about the fact that Naumenko established ties with the Cossacks abroad, wrote books about the history of the Cossacks.

“The name of Vyacheslav Grigoryevich is associated with the revival of the Cossacks in the Kuban, and his whole life is an example of devotion to his work,” says the current Ataman of the KKV Nikolai Doluda.

By the way, one of the most famous works of Naumenko "The Great Betrayal: the Cossacks in the Second World War" does not tell at all about the betrayal by the Cossacks of their own people. It is dedicated to the "great betrayal" of the British, who handed over Hitler's accomplices to the Soviet Union (about 35 thousand Kuban Cossacks). It turns out that the Cossack troops planned to continue the war with the Bolsheviks even after the victory over Germany! “The history of all wars on the globe does not yet remember such meanness,” the book says. Of course, this is one of the tragic pages in the history of the Cossacks, but at the same time, the work clearly reflects the position of the author, his true attitude towards Russia (the Soviet Union) and the people who inhabit it.

The praisers of the accomplice of fascism, V.N. Ratushnyak and V.P. Gromov point out that in 1949 Naumenko was tried in the USA, and he was acquitted. But does the jurisdiction of a foreign state operate in our country? And then, in the states, traitors were often justified if they acted against the USSR.

Do not forget about the results of the Nuremberg trials and that Hitler's accomplices, regardless of the statute of limitations, are not subject to rehabilitation, no matter what patriotic ideas they may be guided by.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that "rewriting history is criminal before the memory of millions who gave their lives for the victory, and criminal before future generations, who must know the true heroes of the Second World War, distinguish the truth from arrogant and cynical lies." We need to think about this.

Anatoly Lemysh 22.02.2011 2017

Russian corps and divisions of the SS

Russian corps and divisions of the SS

15th (Cossack) SS Cavalry Corps
29th SS Grenadier Division
30th SS Grenadier Division
1001st Abwehr Grenadier Regiment

Even the Nazis were shocked by the "exploits" of the Russian SS men from the 29th division during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising - at the very time when other Russian soldiers, in Red Army uniforms, indifferently watched from the opposite bank of the Vistula for two months the agony of the doomed city. The 29th Russian SS division earned such an odious reputation that the Germans were forced to disband it.

Soviet propaganda resorted to any lie in order to disown the outrageous fact: more than a million Soviet citizens participated in the hostilities on the side of Germany. This corresponded to the staff strength of approximately 100 rifle divisions.

So, in Russia, with its traditional cult of patriotism, after twenty years of Bolshevik domination, several times more citizens fought on the side of the external aggressor than in all the White Guard armies combined. The centuries-old history of the country, and indeed the history of wars in general, has not yet known this. There was nothing even remotely similar in any other country participating in the Second World War.
This is what politicians and journalists who are trying to present Stalinism as almost a legitimate form of the existence of the Russian state need to be reminded of more often.

By the end of 1942, Russian battalions with numbers were fighting in the German army:
207,263,268,281,285,308,406,412,427,432,439,441,446,447,448,449,456,510,516,517,561,581,582,601,602,603,604,605,606,607,608,609,610,611,612,613,614,615,616,617,618,619,620,621,626,627,628,629,630,632,633,634,635,636,637,638,639,640,641,642,643,644,645,646,647,648,649,650,653,654,656,661,662,663,664,665,666,667,668,669,674,675,681.

Only after the defeat at Stalingrad did the German leadership begin the formation of SS volunteer divisions, and by the beginning of 1944, the Ukrainian, Lithuanian and two Estonian Waffen SS divisions were formed.

Maybe it's enough to talk about the division "Galicia" in the 44th, when back in the 42nd Russian SS battalions fought against us?
Stalin's telegram after the end of the Polish campaign read: "The friendship between Germany and the Soviet Union, based on the blood shed together, has the prospect of being long and strong"
Before that, in Russia, a new monument to Joseph Vissarionovich was recently erected (although it is still in Yakutia), I think it’s “people shove” then it’s closer to the Chervonozoryanoi ...
And even then they rarely guess that the very beginning of the BBB itself of the SRSR "ticely spivdiyati z National-Socialist Great-Mechchinoy, scho under the wire of Adolf Hitler"

From a speech by V. Molotov in the Kremlin, April 1940. We convey the most heartfelt congratulations from the Soviet government on the magnificent success of the German Wehrmacht. Guderian's tanks broke through to the sea at Aberville on Soviet fuel, the German bombs that leveled Rotterdam were stuffed with Soviet pyroxylin, and the shells of the bullets that hit the British soldiers retreating to the boats at Dunkirk were cast from the Soviet copper-nickel alloy .. .

Deyakі nіyak can't come back from the war. 60 (sixty) years as VVV ended. Ukraine has only been an independent state for 14 (fourteen) years. Warriors in 40-45 years "braided" Yaku krainu? Chi can stinks all the same fought for it?

The Vlasovites should not be perceived as a national movement, they are rather an internal opposition to the Stalinist regime. We should look for analogies in the Baltics and Western Belarus. There, as in ZU, opposition to totalitarianism was strengthened by the goals of national self-determination, especially in the Baltics.

COSSACK PARTS 1941-1943
The appearance of the Cossack units in the Wehrmacht was most facilitated by the reputation of the Cossacks as irreconcilable fighters against Bolshevism, won by them during the Civil War. In the early autumn of 1941, from the headquarters of the 18th Army, the General Staff of the Ground Forces received a proposal to form special units from the Cossacks to fight the Soviet partisans, initiated by the army counterintelligence officer Baron von Kleist. The proposal received support, and on October 6, the Quartermaster General of the General Staff, Lieutenant General E. Wagner, allowed the commanders of the rear areas of Army Groups North, Center and South to form by November 1, 1941, with the consent of the respective SS and police chiefs , - as an experiment - Cossack units from prisoners of war to use them in the fight against partisans.
The first of these units was organized in accordance with the order of General von Schenckendorff, commander of the rear area of ​​Army Group Center, dated October 28, 1941. It was a Cossack squadron under the command of Red Army Major I.N. Kononov. During the year, the command of the rear area formed 4 more squadrons, and by September 1942, under the command of Kononov, there was the 102nd (from October - the 600th) Cossack division (1, 2, 3rd cavalry squadrons, 4, 5, 6th plastun companies, machine gun company, mortar and artillery batteries). The total strength of the division was 1799 people, including 77 officers; in service there were 6 field guns (76.2 mm), 6 anti-tank guns (45 mm), 12 mortars (82 mm), 16 heavy machine guns and a large number of light machine guns, rifles and machine guns (mostly Soviet-made) . During 1942-1943. division divisions waged a tense struggle with the partisans in the areas of Bobruisk, Mogilev, Smolensk, Nevel and Polotsk.
From the Cossack hundreds formed at the army and corps headquarters of the German 17th Army, by order of June 13, 1942, the Platov Cossack cavalry regiment was formed. It consisted of 5 cavalry squadrons, a squadron of heavy weapons, an artillery battery and a spare squadron. Wehrmacht major E. Thomsen was appointed commander of the regiment. Since September 1942, the regiment was used to protect the work on the restoration of the Maykop oil fields, and at the end of January 1943 it was transferred to the Novorossiysk region, where it guarded the sea coast and at the same time participated in the operations of German and Romanian troops against partisans. In the spring of 1943, he defended the “Kuban bridgehead”, repulsing Soviet naval assaults northeast of Temryuk, until at the end of May he was removed from the front and withdrawn to the Crimea.
The Cossack Cavalry Regiment “Jungshults”, formed in the summer of 1942 as part of the 1st Wehrmacht Panzer Army, bore the name of its commander, Lieutenant Colonel I. von Jungshultz. Initially, the regiment had only two squadrons, one of which was purely German, and the second consisted of defector Cossacks. Already at the front, the regiment included two Cossack hundreds from local residents, as well as a Cossack squadron formed in Simferopol and then transferred to the Caucasus. As of December 25, 1942, the regiment consisted of 1530 people, including 30 officers, 150 non-commissioned officers and 1350 privates, and was armed with 6 light and heavy machine guns, 6 mortars, 42 anti-tank rifles, rifles and machine guns. Beginning in September 1942, the "Jungshults" regiment operated on the left flank of the 1st Panzer Army in the Achikulak-Budennovsk area, taking an active part in the battles against the Soviet cavalry. After the order of January 2, 1943 on a general retreat, the regiment retreated to the north-west in the direction of the village of Yegorlykskaya, until it connected with units of the 4th tank army of the Wehrmacht. Subsequently, he was subordinated to the 454th Security Division and transferred to the rear area of ​​the Don Army Group.
In accordance with the order of June 18, 1942, all prisoners of war, who were Cossacks by origin and considered themselves as such, were to be sent to the city of Slavuta. By the end of the month, 5,826 people were already concentrated here, and a decision was made to form a Cossack corps and organize an appropriate headquarters. Since there was an acute shortage of senior and middle command personnel among the Cossacks, former Red Army commanders who were not Cossacks began to be recruited into the Cossack units. Subsequently, at the headquarters of the formation, the 1st Cossack named after Ataman Count Platov, the cadet school, as well as a non-commissioned officer school, was opened.
From the available composition of the Cossacks, in the first place, the 1st Ataman Regiment was formed under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Baron von Wolf and a special fifty, designed to perform special tasks in the Soviet rear. After checking the incoming replenishment, the formation of the 2nd Life Cossack and 3rd Don regiments began, and after them - the 4th and 5th Kuban, 6th and 7th Consolidated Cossack regiments. On August 6, 1942, the formed Cossack units were transferred from the Slavutinsky camp to Shepetovka to barracks specially designated for them.
Over time, work on the organization of Cossack units in Ukraine acquired a systematic character. The Cossacks who found themselves in German captivity concentrated in one camp, from which, after appropriate processing, they were sent to reserve units, and from there they were transferred to formed regiments, divisions, detachments and hundreds. Cossack units were initially used exclusively as auxiliary troops to guard the prisoner of war camps. However, after they proved their suitability for a wide variety of tasks, their use took on a different character. Most of the Cossack regiments formed in Ukraine were involved in the protection of roads and railways, other military facilities, as well as in the fight against the partisan movement on the territory of Ukraine and Belarus.
Many Cossacks joined the German army when the advancing units of the Wehrmacht entered the territories of the Cossack regions of the Don, Kuban and Terek. On July 25, 1942, immediately after the occupation of Novocherkassk by the Germans, a group of Cossack officers came to the representatives of the German command and expressed their readiness "to help the valiant German troops with all their strength and knowledge in the final defeat of Stalin's henchmen", and in September in Novocherkassk, with the sanction of the occupying authorities, gathered the Cossack gathering, at which the headquarters of the Don Cossacks was elected (since November 1942 it was called the headquarters of the Marching Ataman) headed by Colonel S.V. Pavlov, who began organizing Cossack units to fight against the Red Army.
According to the order of the headquarters, all Cossacks capable of bearing weapons were to appear at the collection points and register. The stanitsa atamans were obliged to register Cossack officers and Cossacks within three days and to select volunteers for organized units. Each volunteer could write down his last rank in the Russian Imperial Army or in the White armies. At the same time, chieftains had to provide volunteers with combat horses, saddles, sabers and uniforms. Armament for the formed units was allocated in agreement with the German headquarters and commandant's offices.
In November 1942, shortly before the start of the Soviet counter-offensive near Stalingrad, the German command authorized the formation of Cossack regiments in the Don, Kuban and Terek regions. So, from the volunteers of the Don villages in Novocherkassk, the 1st Don Regiment was organized under the command of Yesaul A.V. Pavlova. The 1st Sinegorsk Regiment was also formed on the Don, consisting of 1260 officers and Cossacks under the command of a military foreman (former sergeant major) Zhuravlev. From the Cossack hundreds formed in the villages of the Uman department of the Kuban, under the leadership of the military foreman I.I. Kulakov - 1st Volga regiment of the Terek Cossack army. The Cossack regiments organized on the Don in January-February 1943 took part in heavy battles against the advancing Soviet troops on the Seversky Donets, near Bataysk, Novocherkassk and Rostov. Covering the retreat to the west of the main forces of the German army, these units steadfastly repulsed the onslaught of a superior enemy and suffered heavy losses, and some of them were completely destroyed.
Cossack units were formed by the command of the army rear areas (2nd and 4th field armies), corps (43rd and 59th) and divisions (57th and 137th infantry, 203, 213, 403, 444 and 454 th security). In tank corps, such as in the 3rd (Cossack motorized company) and 40th (1st and 2nd / 82nd Cossack squadrons under the command of M. Zagorodny's squadron), they were used as auxiliary reconnaissance detachments. In the 444th and 454th security divisions, two Cossack divisions of 700 sabers each were formed. 650 Cossacks served in the 5,000-strong German cavalry formation "Boselager", created for security service in the rear area of ​​​​Army Group Center, 650 Cossacks served, and some of them were a squadron of heavy weapons. Cossack units were also created as part of the German satellite armies operating on the Eastern Front. At least, it is known that the Cossack detachment of two squadrons was formed under the cavalry group "Savoy" of the Italian 8th Army. In order to achieve proper operational interaction, it was practiced to reduce individual parts into larger formations. So, in November 1942, four Cossack battalions (622, 623, 624 and 625th, which previously constituted the 6th, 7th and 8th regiments), operating against partisans in the Dorogobuzh and Vyazma region), a separate motorized company (638th) and two artillery batteries were merged into the 360th Cossack regiment led by the Baltic German Major E.V. von Rentelnom.
By April 1943, the Wehrmacht operated about 20 Cossack regiments numbering from 400 to 1000 people each and a large number of small units, totaling up to 25 thousand soldiers and officers. The most reliable of them were formed from volunteers in the villages of the Don, Kuban and Terek, or from defectors in German field formations. The personnel of such units were mainly represented by natives of the Cossack regions, many of whom fought against the Bolsheviks during the Civil War or were repressed by the Soviet authorities in the 1920s and 30s, and therefore were vitally interested in the fight against the Soviet regime. At the same time, in the ranks of the units formed in Slavuta and Shepetovka, there were many random people who called themselves Cossacks only in order to escape from the prisoner of war camps and thereby save their lives. The reliability of this contingent has always been a big question, and the slightest difficulties seriously affected its morale and could provoke a transition to the side of the enemy.
In the autumn of 1943, some Cossack units were transferred to France, where they were used to protect the Atlantic Wall and in the fight against local partisans. Their fate was different. So, the 360th regiment of von Renteln, deployed battalion-by-battalion along the coast of the Bay of Biscay (by this time it was renamed the Cossack Fortress Grenadier Regiment), in August 1944 was forced to fight a long way to the German border through the territory occupied by partisans. The 570th Cossack battalion was sent against the Anglo-Americans who landed in Normandy and surrendered on the first day in full strength. The 454th Cossack cavalry regiment, blocked by units of French regular troops and partisans in the town of Pontalier, refused to capitulate and was almost completely destroyed. The same fate befell the 82nd Cossack division of M. Zagorodny in Normandy.
At the same time, most of those formed in 1942-1943. in the cities of Slavuta and Shepetovka, the Cossack regiments continued to act against partisans on the territory of Ukraine and Belarus. Some of them were reorganized into police battalions, bearing the numbers 68, 72, 73 and 74th. Others were defeated in the winter battles of 1943/44 in Ukraine, and their remnants joined the various units. In particular, the remnants of the 14th Consolidated Cossack Regiment, defeated in February 1944 near Tsuman, were included in the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the Wehrmacht, and the 68th Cossack police battalion in the fall of 1944 was part of the 30th Grenadier Division of the SS troops (1st Belarusian), sent to the Western Front.
After the experience of using Cossack units at the front proved their practical value, the German command decided to create a large Cossack cavalry unit as part of the Wehrmacht. On November 8, 1942, Colonel G. von Pannwitz, a brilliant cavalry commander, who was also fluent in Russian, was appointed at the head of the formation, which was still to be formed. The Soviet offensive near Stalingrad prevented the implementation of the plan to form a formation already in November, and it was possible to start implementing it only in the spring of 1943 - after the withdrawal of German troops to the line of the Mius River and the Taman Peninsula and the relative stabilization of the front. The Cossack units that retreated together with the German army from the Don and the North Caucasus were gathered in the Kherson region and replenished at the expense of Cossack refugees. The next step was the reduction of these “irregular” units into a separate military formation. Initially, four regiments were formed: the 1st Don, 2nd Terek, 3rd Consolidated Cossack and 4th Kuban with a total strength of up to 6,000 people.
On April 21, 1943, the German command ordered the organization of the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division, in connection with which the formed regiments were transferred to the Milau (Mlawa) training ground, where the Polish cavalry equipment depots had been located since pre-war times. The best of the front-line Cossack units, such as the Platov and Yungshults regiments, Wolf's 1st Ataman Regiment and Kononov's 600th division, also arrived here. Created without taking into account the military principle, these units were disbanded, and their personnel were reduced to regiments according to their belonging to the Don, Kuban and Terek Cossack troops. The exception was Kononov's division, which was included in the division as a separate regiment. The creation of the division was completed on July 1, 1943, when von Pannwitz, promoted to the rank of Major General, was approved as its commander.
The finally formed division included a headquarters with an escort hundred, a field gendarmerie group, a motorcycle communications platoon, a propaganda platoon and a brass band, two Cossack cavalry brigades - the 1st Don (1st Don, 2nd Siberian and 4th Kuban regiments) and the 2nd Caucasian (3rd Kuban, 5th Don and 6th Terek regiments), two cavalry artillery battalions (Don and Kuban), reconnaissance detachment, sapper battalion, communications department, logistics service units (all divisional units were numbered 55).
Each of the regiments consisted of two cavalry battalions (in the 2nd Siberian regiment, the 2nd battalion was scooter, and in the 5th Donskoy - plastun) of three squadrons, machine-gun, mortar and anti-tank squadrons. According to the staff, the regiment had 2,000 people, including 150 people of the German cadre. It was armed with 5 anti-tank guns (50 mm), 14 battalion (81 mm) and 54 company (50 mm) mortars, 8 machine guns and 60 MG-42 light machine guns, German carbines and machine guns. In addition to the staff, the regiments were given batteries of 4 field guns (76.2 mm). Horse artillery battalions had 3 batteries of 75-mm cannons (200 people and 4 guns each), reconnaissance detachment - 3 scooter squadrons from among the German personnel, a squadron of young Cossacks and a penal squadron, an engineer battalion - 3 sapper and sapper-construction squadrons , and the communications division - 2 squadrons of telephone operators and 1 radio communications.
On November 1, 1943, the strength of the division was 18,555 people, including 3,827 German lower ranks and 222 officers, 14,315 Cossacks and 191 Cossack officers. All headquarters, special and rear units were equipped with German personnel. All commanders of regiments (except for I.N. Kononov) and divisions (except for two) were also Germans, and each squadron included 12-14 German soldiers and non-commissioned officers in economic positions. At the same time, the division was considered the most "Russified" of the Wehrmacht's regular formations: the commanders of combat cavalry units - squadrons and platoons - were Cossacks, and all commands were given in Russian. In Mokovo, not far from the Milau training ground, a Cossack reserve training regiment was formed under the command of Colonel von Bosse, bearing the number 5 according to the general numbering of spare parts of the eastern troops. The regiment did not have a permanent composition and consisted at different times from 10 to 15 thousand Cossacks, who constantly arrived from the Eastern Front and the occupied territories and, after appropriate training, were distributed among the regiments of the division. A non-commissioned officer school operated at the reserve training regiment, which trained personnel for combat units. The School of Young Cossacks was also organized here - a kind of cadet corps, where several hundred teenagers who had lost their parents underwent military training.
In the autumn of 1943, the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division was sent to Yugoslavia, where by that time communist partisans under the leadership of I. Broz Tito had noticeably intensified their activities. Due to their great mobility and maneuverability, the Cossack units turned out to be better adapted to the mountainous conditions of the Balkans and acted more effectively here than the clumsy German landwehr divisions that carried security services here. During the summer of 1944, units of the division undertook at least five independent operations in the mountainous regions of Croatia and Bosnia, during which they destroyed many partisan strongholds and seized the initiative for offensive operations. Among the local population, the Cossacks earned themselves a bad name. In accordance with the orders of the command for self-sufficiency, they resorted to requisitioning horses, food and fodder from the peasants, which often resulted in massive robberies and violence. The villages, whose population was suspected of complicity with the partisans, were compared by the Cossacks to the ground with fire and sword.

At the very end of 1944, the 1st Cossack division had to face units of the Red Army that were trying to connect on the river. Drava with Tito's partisans. During fierce battles, the Cossacks managed to inflict a heavy defeat on one of the regiments of the 233rd Soviet Rifle Division and force the enemy to leave the previously captured bridgehead on the right bank of the Drava. In March 1945, units of the 1st Cossack division (by that time already deployed in the corps) participated in the last major offensive operation of the Wehrmacht during World War II, when the Cossacks successfully operated against the Bulgarian units on the southern face of the Balaton ledge.
The transfer in August 1944 of foreign national formations of the Wehrmacht to the jurisdiction of the SS was also reflected in the fate of the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division. At a meeting held in early September at Himmler's headquarters with the participation of von Pannwitz and other commanders of the Cossack formations, it was decided to deploy a division, replenished from units transferred from other fronts, to the corps. At the same time, it was supposed to mobilize among the Cossacks who found themselves on the territory of the Reich, for which a special body was formed at the General Staff of the SS - the Reserve of Cossack troops, headed by Lieutenant General A.G. Shkuro. General P.N. Krasnov, who since March 1944 headed the Main Directorate of the Cossack troops, created under the auspices of the Eastern Ministry, appealed to the Cossacks with an appeal to rise to fight against Bolshevism.
Soon large and small groups of Cossacks and entire military units began to arrive in von Pannwitz's division. Among them were two Cossack battalions from Krakow, the 69th police battalion from Warsaw, a factory guard battalion from Hanover, and finally the 360th von Renteln regiment from the Western Front. The 5th Cossack Training and Reserve Regiment, stationed until recently in France, was transferred to Austria (Zvetle) - closer to the division's area of ​​operations. Through the efforts of the recruiting headquarters created by the Reserve of the Cossack troops, it was possible to gather more than 2000 Cossacks from among the emigrants, prisoners of war and eastern workers, who were also sent to the 1st Cossack division. As a result, within two months the strength of the division (not counting the German personnel) almost doubled.
A group of Cossack signalmen of the 2nd Siberian regiment of the 1st Cossack cavalry division. 1943-1944
By order of November 4, 1944, the 1st Cossack division was transferred for the duration of the war to the command of the SS General Staff. This transfer concerned, first of all, the sphere of logistics, which made it possible to improve the provision of the division with weapons, military equipment and vehicles. So. for example, the artillery regiment of the division received a battery of 105-mm howitzers, the engineer battalion received several six-barreled mortars, and the reconnaissance detachment received StG-44 assault rifles. In addition, according to some reports, the division was given 12 armored vehicles, including tanks and assault guns.
By order of February 25, 1945, the division was transformed into the 15th Cossack Cavalry Corps of the Waffen-SS. The 1st and 2nd brigades were renamed into divisions without changing their numbers and organizational structure. On the basis of the 5th Don Regiment of Kononov, the formation of the Plastunskaya brigade of a two-regiment structure began with the prospect of deployment to the 3rd Cossack division. Cavalry artillery battalions in divisions were reorganized into regiments. The total strength of the corps reached 25,000 soldiers and officers, including from 3,000 to 5,000 Germans. In addition, at the final stage of the war, together with the 15th Cossack Corps, such formations as the Kalmyk regiment (up to 5000 people), the Caucasian cavalry division, the Ukrainian SS battalion and the group of ROA tankers acted, taking into account which, under the command of the Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the troops SS (since February 1, 1945) G. von Pannwitz had 30-35 thousand people.
After the units assembled in the Kherson region were sent to Poland to form the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division, the main center of concentration of Cossack refugees who left their lands along with the retreating German troops became the headquarters of the Marching Ataman of the Don Army S. V. Pavlov, who settled in Kirovograd . By July 1943, up to 3,000 Donets had gathered here, of which two new regiments were formed - the 8th and 9th, which probably had a common numbering with the regiments of the 1st division. For the training of command personnel, it was planned to open an officer school, as well as a school for tankers, but these projects could not be implemented due to the new Soviet offensive.
In the late autumn of 1943, Pavlov already had 18,000 Cossacks under his command, including women and children, who formed the so-called Cossack Camp. The German authorities recognized Pavlov as the Marching ataman of all Cossack troops and pledged to provide him with all possible support. After a short stay in Podolia, Kazachiy Stan in March 1944, due to the danger of the Soviet encirclement, began to move west - to Sandomierz, and then was transported by rail to Belarus. Here, the command of the Wehrmacht provided 180 thousand hectares of land for the placement of the Cossacks in the area of ​​​​the cities of Baranovichi, Slonim, Novogrudok, Yelnya, Capitals. The refugees settled in the new place were grouped by belonging to different troops, by districts and departments, which outwardly reproduced the traditional system of Cossack settlements.
At the same time, a broad reorganization of the Cossack combat units was undertaken, united in 10 foot regiments of 1200 bayonets each. The 1st and 2nd Don regiments made up the 1st brigade of Colonel Silkin; 3rd Donskoy, 4th Consolidated Cossack, 5th and 6th Kuban and 7th Tersky - the 2nd brigade of Colonel Vertepov; 8th Donskoy, 9th Kuban and 10th Terek-Stavropol - 3rd brigade of Colonel Medynsky (later the composition of the brigades changed several times). Each regiment had 3 plastun battalions, mortar and anti-tank batteries. For their armament, Soviet captured weapons provided by the German field arsenals were used.
The main task assigned to the Cossacks by the German command was the fight against partisans and ensuring the security of the rear communications of Army Group Center. On June 17, 1944, during one of the anti-partisan operations, the Marching Ataman of the Cossack Camp S.V. was killed. Pavlov. His successor was the military foreman (later - colonel and major general) T.I. Domanov. In July 1944, in connection with the threat of a new Soviet offensive, Kazachiy Stan was withdrawn from Belarus and concentrated in the area of ​​the town of Zdunskaya Wola in northern Poland. From here began its transfer to Northern Italy, where the territory adjacent to the Carnic Alps with the cities of Tolmezzo, Gemona and Ozoppo was allocated for the placement of the Cossacks. Here, Cossack Stan became subordinate to the commander of the SS troops and the police of the coastal zone of the Adriatic Sea, SS Ober-Gruppenführer O. Globochnik, who instructed the Cossacks to ensure security on the lands provided to them.
On the territory of Northern Italy, the combat units of the Cossack Camp underwent another reorganization and formed the Marching Ataman Group (also called the corps) consisting of two divisions. The 1st Cossack foot division (Cossacks from 19 to 40 years old) included the 1st and 2nd Don, 3rd Kuban and 4th Terek-Stavropol regiments, consolidated into the 1st Don and 2nd Consolidated plastun brigades, as well as headquarters and transport companies, cavalry and gendarmerie squadrons, a communications company and an armored detachment. The 2nd Cossack Foot Division (Cossacks from 40 to 52 years old) consisted of the 3rd Consolidated Plastun Brigade, which included the 5th Consolidated Cossack and 6th Don Regiments, and the 4th Consolidated Plastun Brigade, which included the 3rd Spare regiment, three stanitsa self-defense battalions (Donskoy, Kuban and Consolidated Cossacks) and the Special Detachment of Colonel Grekov. In addition, the Group included the following units: 1st Cossack cavalry regiment (6 squadrons: 1st, 2nd and 4th Don, 2nd Terek-Don, 6th Kuban and 5th officers), Ataman escort cavalry regiment (5 squadrons), the 1st Cossack cadet school (2 plastun companies, a company of heavy weapons, an artillery battery), separate divisions - officer, gendarme and commandant foot, as well as a Special Cossack parachute-sniper school disguised as a motor-motor school (Special Group "Ataman" ). According to some reports, a separate Cossack group "Savoy" was attached to the combat units of the Cossack Camp, which was withdrawn to Italy from the Eastern Front along with the remnants of the Italian 8th Army back in 1943.
Cossack refugees. 1943-1945
The units of the Marching Ataman Group were armed with over 900 light and heavy machine guns of various systems (Soviet “Maxim”, DP (“Degtyarev infantry”) and DT (“Degtyarev tank”), German MG-34 and “Schwarzlose”, Czech “Zbroevka” Italian "Breda" and "Fiat", French "Hotchkiss" and "Shosh", English "Vickers" and "Lewis", American "Colt"), 95 company and battalion mortars (mainly Soviet and German production), more than 30 Soviet 45-mm anti-tank guns and 4 field guns (76.2 mm), as well as 2 light armored vehicles recaptured from partisans and named "Don Cossack" and "Ataman Yermak". As small arms, mainly Soviet-made magazine and automatic rifles and carbines, a certain number of German and Italian carbines, Soviet, German and Italian machine guns were used. The Cossacks also had a large number of German faustpatrons and English grenade launchers captured from partisans.
As of April 27, 1945, the total number of Cossack Stan was 31,463 people, including 1,575 officers, 592 officials, 16,485 non-commissioned officers and privates, 6,304 non-combatants (unfit for service due to age and health), 4,222 women, 2,094 children under the age of 14 and 358 adolescents aged 14 to 17. Of the total number of Stan, 1430 Cossacks belonged to the emigrants of the first wave, and the rest were Soviet citizens.
In the last days of the war, due to the approach of the advancing Allied troops and the intensification of partisan actions, Cossack Stan was forced to leave Italy. In the period April 30 - May 7, 1945, having overcome the high Alpine passes, the Cossacks crossed the Italian-Austrian border and settled in the valley of the river. Drava between the cities of Lienz and Oberdrauburg, where the surrender to the British troops was announced. Already after the official cessation of hostilities from Croatia to Austria, units of the 15th Cossack cavalry corps von Pannwitz broke through, also laying down their arms in front of the British. And less than a month later, on the banks of the Drava, the tragedy of the forced extradition to the Soviet Union of tens of thousands of Cossacks, Kalmyks and Caucasians, who were waiting for all the horrors of Stalin's camps and special settlements, broke out. Together with the Cossacks, their leaders, Generals P.N. Krasnov, his nephew S.N. Krasnov, who headed the headquarters of the Main Directorate of the Cossack troops, A.G. Shkuro, T.I. Domanov and G. von Pannwitz, as well as the leader of the Caucasians, Sultan Kelech-Girey. All of them were convicted in Moscow at a closed trial on January 16, 1947, and sentenced to death by hanging.

St. George's ribbons during World War II were worn only by "Cossacks who served Great Germany." Now, with the assistance of the authorities of the Luhansk region, a heroic image of the Don Cossacks is being created from these people, who have always faithfully served their “native fatherland”.

On May 9, we celebrate the victory over the worst enemy of mankind - Nazi Germany. We honor those who, not sparing their own lives, made their contribution to this victory. But they should also know those "fighters for the fatherland" whose participation in this war is deliberately not made public.

With the assistance of the former secretaries of the Communist Party and the Komsomol, the current officials, the heroic image of the Don Cossacks, which has always faithfully served the "native fatherland", is being persistently created in the Luhansk region. At the same time, the service of the Donchaks of Nazi Germany during the Second World War is carefully hushed up.

And there is something to talk about. After all, numerous Cossack regiments, divisions and even corps fought as part of the Wehrmacht and the SS troops.

In the territories occupied by the Germans, Cossack police battalions operated, which had the main task of fighting the partisans. The Cossacks of these battalions often served as overseers of Red Army prisoners of war.

Under the German commandant's offices, there were Cossack hundreds who performed police tasks. The Don Cossacks had two such hundreds in the village of Luganskaya and two more in Krasnodon. The civilian population of the Lugansk region, as well as local partisans and underground fighters who resisted the Nazis, suffered many troubles from them.

On August 12, 1942, near the farm of the Pshenichny Stanichno-Lugansk region, Cossack policemen, together with the Germans, defeated a partisan detachment commanded by I.M. Yakovenko.

At the end of September 1942, in the city of Krasnodon in the Luhansk region, an underground youth organization "Young Guard" was created, which began the fight against the German invaders. And on October 24, 1942, a “Cossack parade” took place in Krasnodon, with which the Don Cossacks showed their devotion to the Nazi command and the German administration.

“The celebration was attended by 20 representatives of the German military command and local authorities. Mayor of Krasnodon P.A. made patriotic speeches to the Cossacks. Chernikov, the ataman of the Gundorovskaya village F.G. Vlasov, the old Cossack G. Sukhorukov and a German officer.

All the speakers were unanimous in their call to the Cossacks to establish close cooperation with the German liberators and to unite their efforts in the fight against the Soviets, Bolshevism and the Red Army troops.

After a prayer service for the health of the Cossacks and the speedy victory of the German army, a letter of greeting to Adolf Hitler was read and accepted.

Here is an excerpt from that letter:

“We, the Don Cossacks, the remnants of our compatriots who survived the Jewish-Stalinist brutal terror, fathers and grandsons, sons and brothers of those who died in a fierce struggle against the Bolsheviks and were tortured in damp basements and gloomy dungeons by the bloodthirsty executioners of Stalin, we send you, the great commander, the brilliant State to the figure, the builder of New Europe, the Liberator and friend of the Don Cossacks, your warm Don Cossack greetings!

Death to Stalin and his guardsmen! Heil Hitler! Long live Hitler! Long live our organizer and commander, Cossack General Pyotr Krasnov! For the final victory over our common enemy!

For the Quiet Don and the Don Cossacks! For the German and Allied Armies! For the leader of New Europe, Adolf Hitler - our mighty, cordial Cossack "hurrah!".

The example of the elders was followed by the "young Cossacks".

“In the newspaper Novaya Zhizn, No. 54, dated December 20, 1942, a letter was published to Adolf Hitler, “the leader of the great German people” from the students of the village of Luganskaya: “We, students of the special agricultural school of the village of Luganskaya, send warm greetings to our Liberator Adolf Hitler.”

The continuation of the letter spoke of the obligation of the students of this school "to become as cultured as the German people."

From December 1942, near Krasnodon, in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Region, the Cossack convoy hundred under the German commandant's office was commanded by T.N. .

This Cossack unit was created at the end of July 1942. It included many people from the Gundorovskaya village (now the city of Donetsk, Rostov region).

“Cossacks of the escort Cossack hundred took part in the protection of the railway, carried out sentinel service, combed the forest on the left bank of the Seversky Donets in search of escaped Soviet prisoners of war. In January-February 1943, these same Cossacks scoured the village of Gundorovskaya and farms in search of underground members from the defeated Krasnodon Young Guard.

“... In July 1942, one of the artillery regiments of the Red Army entered the Uryv forest in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsk to hide from the Messers during the day. A resident of the Uryvsky farm, a future policeman, betrayed Soviet artillerymen to the Germans.

The Germans, pitying the manpower of their troops, turned their guns and tanks towards the forest and began to methodically fire at the Red Army men lurking in the forest. It was not a battle, but the complete destruction of all life in this forest.

This story is very similar to the history of Erokhinskaya gully in the same area and in the same period - July 1942; the same betrayal of a Cossack policeman from the Erokhin farm. There, the Germans placed guns and mortars on a hillock and began to methodically destroy all living things that were in the area of ​​​​the beam. Then light tanks went to the area of ​​​​the beam and machine guns fired at the Red Army soldiers fleeing across the field.

There were many German collaborators among the Kuban, Terek, Ural, Siberian, Astrakhan and other Cossacks - but in all the Cossack formations that served Nazi Germany, the overwhelming majority of the soldiers were precisely the Don Cossacks.

Collaborationism among the Don Cossacks was massive.

“Initially, on the right chest, all Cossacks wore emblems specially designed for the “warriors from the East” in the form of a swastika-kolovrat inscribed in a rhombus with horizontal “wings”, but since 1943 they switched to wearing a standard Wehrmacht eagle with a swastika-kolovrat in its claws.

The Cossacks of the 5th Don cavalry regiment of I.N. Kononov wore on their headdresses a silver “dead head” (from German “Totenkopf”) of the so-called “Prussian type” - a symbol of fidelity to the grave.

The Cossacks of the guard squadrons on the sleeves of their uniforms and overcoats below the elbow had St. George's black and orange chevrons "corners" with the point up.

The formation of the Cossack units was carried out under the leadership of the head of the Main Directorate of the Cossack troops of the Imperial Ministry of the Eastern Occupied Territories of Germany, Wehrmacht General Pyotr Nikolaevich Krasnov.

According to the oath he had drawn up, the Cossacks, like himself, swore allegiance to the "Führer of the German people, Adolf Hitler." And here are some statements by P.N. Krasnova:

“Hello, Fuhrer, in Great Germany, and we are Cossacks on the quiet Don. Cossacks! Remember, you are not Russians, you are Cossacks, an independent people. Russians are hostile to you.

Moscow has always been an enemy of the Cossacks, crushed and exploited them. Now the time has come when we, the Cossacks, can create our own life independent of Moscow.

Russians must be locked up in the framework of the old Moscow principality, from where the advance of Moscow imperialism began. God help the German arms and Hitler!

On March 30, 1944, the Main Directorate of the Cossack Troops was transferred from the Imperial Ministry of the Eastern Occupied Territories of Germany to the Main Directorate of the SS of the Third Reich.

For the information of the reading public, I propose one of the orders of P.N. Krasnov, which he sent around Berlin. On June 20, 1944, this "Cossack-general" wrote:

"Major Miller by telegram from 19th This June, he informed me that the Camping Ataman, Colonel Pavlov, in a battle with partisans west of Gorodishche, 17th this June, died a heroic death.

Colonel Pavlov from the very first days of the connection of the Don Cossacks with the German army for a common struggle against the Bolsheviks, from the summer 1942 years, that is, for two years, courageously and valiantly, all the time waging continuous battles with the enemies of the Cossacks, created Cossack units, educated and trained them. His death is an irreparable loss for the Cossacks and for his native Don Host.

I grieve with my native Donets over the grave of the fallen hero of the great war with the Bolsheviks, I am proud that the Army had him in its ranks in such difficult fighting times. To his widow, Feona Andreevna Pavlova, I offer my deepest condolences for the loss that has befallen her. Let there be consolation to her and her daughter that their husband and father died such an honorable, real Cossack death.

For the feats accomplished during the long campaign in the battles of the Cossacks, led by the Marching ataman Pavlov, I posthumously promote him to major general, which is to be included in his track record.

As noted by P.N. Krasnov, the Cossacks began extensive cooperation with the Nazis in the summer of 1942, but several Cossack units appeared in the German army as early as 1941:

"102nd volunteer Cossack unit of I.N. Kononov at the headquarters of the commander of the rear area of ​​the Army Group Center, Cossack reconnaissance battalion 14th tank corps, Cossack reconnaissance squadron 4th security scooter regiment, Cossack reconnaissance and sabotage detachment of the reconnaissance Abwehr command of the NBO.

On August 22, 1941, the commander of the 436th regiment of the 155th rifle division of the Red Army, I.N. Kononov. Together with him, a large group of fighters and commanders of this regiment went over to the Germans. Immediately after that, Kononov suggested that they create a volunteer Cossack unit to fight against the Red Army.

Having received the consent of the German command for this, he formed it already before October 28, 1941, at number 102, consisting of two cavalry squadrons, two squadrons of scooters, one horse-drawn cannon platoon and one anti-tank gun platoon. This military unit began the creation of the 5th Don Cossack Cavalry Regiment.

“When, in mid-October 1941, units of the 14th German Panzer Corps approached the Mius River, behind the front line, in the rear of the Red Army, a battle was already underway. Being sure that the battle was being fought by German airborne units or motorized units, somehow surrounded, the tankers rushed to the rescue.

Imagine their surprise when they discovered that the “German paratroopers” who attacked the defensive orders of the Soviet army from the rear turned out to be a Cossack hundred under the command of a hereditary Don Cossack, Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Nazarenko. In mid-October, this group was sent as a marching battalion to the Mius River, where it took up a position in the rear of the Soviet 9th Army.

The detachment itself by that time was a rather impressive force, in Taganrog all its fighters were fully equipped with small arms and a sufficient amount of ammunition, as well as food and medicine. In addition, upon arrival at the place, 5 artillery pieces were attached to the detachment as a reinforcement.

Having waited for the right moment, Nazarenko decided to "stab in the back" to the Soviet units and break through towards the advancing German tank units.

Unfortunately for the Cossacks, a few hours before the attack, a regrouping of troops was carried out, and several Soviet regiments at once found themselves in the rear of the rebel detachment. Having taken the “volunteers” into the ring, they began to methodically destroy them, but here the long-awaited help from the German side arrived in time, saving a detachment of Cossack collaborators.

In German documents, Nazarenko's detachment was listed as "Cossack reconnaissance battalion of the 14th tank corps of the Wehrmacht." All Cossacks received German uniforms and small arms from the warehouse. Their only difference from the German soldiers was large white armbands with a black letter “K” sewn on them, while Nazarenko had a blue-red cockade of the Don army on a German officer's cap.

“... In November 1941, the Cossacks of the village of Sinyavskaya, when the German troops approached, killed the local authorities, took away all the available weapons and went to the Donskie plavni, where they waited for the arrival of the German troops.
Turning to the liberators with a speech, they asked to assist them in creating a Cossack hundred. The Germans granted their request and provided the Cossacks with horses and weapons.

Soon, the Soviet troops launched a counterattack and threw the enemy back to Taganrog. The Cossacks retreated along with their new allies, and already under the official name: Cossack reconnaissance squadron 4th security scooter regiment of the Wehrmacht.

In addition, at the end of 1941, other Cossack units were created as part of the German army:

"444th Cossack Hundred as part of the 444th Security Division, 1st Cossack Hundred as part of the 1st Army Corps of the 18th Army, 2nd Cossack Hundred as part of the 2nd Army Corps of the 16th Army, 38- I am a Cossack Hundred as part of the 38th Army Corps of the 18th Army, the 50th Cossack Hundred as part of the 50th Army Corps of the 18th Army.

And in May 1942, one Cossack hundred was created in all army corps of the 17th field army of the Wehrmacht and two Cossack hundreds - at the headquarters of this army.

In the summer of 1942, the cooperation of the Cossacks with the Nazis acquired a different quality. Since then, not Cossack hundreds, but Cossack regiments and divisions were created as part of the troops of the Third Reich.

The modern Russian government and its lackeys in Ukraine mercilessly stigmatize German collaborators all over the world, but never mention Russian Cossack collaborators.

In Moscow, near the Church of All Saints, a memorial plate was erected to P.N. The inscription on this plate is stunning: "To the Cossacks who fell for their faith and Fatherland."

In the village of Elanskaya, Sholokhov district, Rostov region, you can see a monument to General P.N. Krasnov. In addition to this, in Luhansk, on the street named after Karl Marx, there is a memorial sign on which is written: "Cossack who gave his life for the Fatherland." The inscription is almost the same as in Moscow. Are we talking about the tsarist gendarmes, White Guards and German servants? Yes, they were the Don Cossacks, these uninvited aliens in Lugansk!

During the Russian Empire, the city of Lugansk was part of the Yekaterinoslav province, and the village of Luganskaya belonged to the Don Cossack Region. However, they are located almost nearby - two dozen kilometers from each other.

To curry favor with the tsarist authorities, the Don people repeatedly came to Lugansk to suppress strikes and unrest among the workers of the city. In May 1919, the Don Cossacks, as part of Denikin's White Guard army, broke into Lugansk, breaking the resistance of its defenders.

Now Oboronnaya Street stretches from the center of the city of Lugansk to Ostraya Mohyla in its southern suburbs. The street got its name in honor of the defenders of the city, who then resisted Denikin's army.

The fighting at Ostraya Mogila lasted from April 21 to April 30, 1919. A majestic monument to the defenders of the city was built there in 1919. Lugansk once again saw the Don Cossacks when in January 1943 they, as part of the troops of "Great Germany", fled west from the Red Army.

On the outskirts of the city and, in particular, on the Sharp Grave, this flight was then covered by the military units of the Third Reich - the liberators of the Don Cossacks. In the battles for Lugansk against the Red Army, the Don Cossacks "did not particularly distinguish themselves", but soon made up for it on the Mius Front.

If only one of the mentioned Lugansk officials and numerous local "fighters against fascism" were outraged by this. “Everything is silent in all languages, for it prospers!” They also have no desire to build monuments to the soldiers of the Red Army and civilians who died on the territory of the Luhansk region at the hands of the soldiers of the Cossack formations of Nazi Germany.

This is how, in early 1943, the Don Cossacks fought "for the fatherland" a hundred kilometers east of Lugansk, in the neighboring Rostov region.

“The Cossacks of the 1st Sinegorsk regiment of the military foreman Zhuravlev in January 1943, together with the German troops, held the defense on the right bank of the Seversky Donets River.

Here, at the Yasinovsky farm, a separate hundred under the command of the centurion Rykovsky, who managed to throw the Soviet troops that had broken through back across the river, in one of the counterattacks, especially distinguished themselves.

Flag 1st Sinegorsk Cossack regiment. Photo: elan-kazak.ru

The last Red Army men running back were cut down by a cavalry platoon of Cossacks right in the Donets. Out of 800 people, less than two dozen survived. During the reorganization of the Cossack formations, the military foreman Rykovsky was entrusted with the regiment. There is evidence that he also taught a lesson to the red "Cossacks" of the 5th Corps - recruited and dressed in Cossack uniforms, katsaps of the Voronezh, Tambov and Rostov regions.

Note that the 5th Cavalry Corps of the Red Army had the name "Don Cossack".

In February 1943, the one hundred and twelfth Bashkir Cavalry Division (later the 16th Guards Bashkir Cavalry Division) of the Red Army participated in a campaign in the rear of the Nazi troops to the Debaltsevo railway junction station.

As a result, the movement of German trains to the railway lines connecting Debaltseve with the stations Nikitovka, Alchevsk and Petrovenki was stopped. The Nazis then suffered many losses in manpower and military equipment.

The division moved to break through from the enemy rear on February 23, 1943. During a fierce battle near the village of Yulin (between the village of Petrovsky and Shterovka in the Luhansk region), the commander of this division, General M. M. Shaymuratov, was seriously wounded and captured.

“He was captured by the Germans and the Don Cossacks, who were in the service of the invaders. They dragged the general into one of the huts, drove the owners out. Instead of showing generosity to a wounded enemy, as required by the rules and customs of war, these people began a bloody orgy, gouging out his eyes with a bayonet, carving epaulettes on his shoulders, and a “star” on his back.
The mutilated body was buried by captured cavalrymen, among whom was the adjutant of the divisional commander - in the presence of the hostess of the house, they buried the stables under the wall.

Residents of the Luhansk region are well aware that from February to August 1943, the Red Army fought fierce battles on the Mius Front.

But few Luhansk residents know that here, as part of the 29th Corps of the 6th Army of the Wehrmacht, fought against him "the Cossack group of the 1st Don Cossack Regiment named after Ataman M.I. Platov, the 17th Don Cossack Plastunsky Regiment T. G .Budarina, Separate Cossack cavalry regiment of Shvedov, 6th Semigorievsky Cossack plastunsky regiment, Shakhty Cossack battalion of the city police.

There were about eight thousand Cossacks in these units. For more than six months, they stubbornly destroyed the fighters of the army of their "native fatherland" here. As part of other German units, the I / 454th, II / 454th, III / 454th, IV / 454th and 403rd “Cossack divisions” also fought on the Mius Front.

The battles near Rostov-on-Don are described in the memoirs “Don, Kuban and Terek in World War II” by another “Cossack veteran” - P. N. Donskov.

“In the battle near Bataysk in early February 1943, with the support of German military aircraft Luftwaffe, the Cossacks stopped the tank raid of the Reds by anti-tank artillery, Cossack infantry, cavalry (including mounted Cossack police), a detachment of Cossack tank destroyers, armed “anti-tank fists (grenade launchers -“ panzerfausts ”, also known in Russian-language literature as“ faustpatrons ”) and bottles with flammable liquid.

The defense of the city of Novocherkassk was also stubborn. The Cossacks managed to defeat the advanced units 2nd Guards Army of the Reds and capture 360 ​​prisoners, which surprised the worldly-wise German officers a lot.

During the retreat of the Germans in 1943, hundreds of thousands of Cossacks and members of their families, that is, "traitors to the Motherland", moved along with the army of "Great Germany". Among these traitors were 135,850 Don Cossacks. From the territory of the Luhansk region and the local stud farms, they drove a huge number of horses and cattle to the west.

The Cossacks then fled from the Red Army in two ways. The first route ran along the northern coast of the Sea of ​​Azov, and the second - from the Taman Peninsula through the Kerch Strait to the Crimea.

In the south of Ukraine and in the Crimea, from among these Nazi henchmen, the Germans then formed the “Consolidated Cossack Cavalry Division of the Von Schulenburg Field Police” and the Cossack Plastunskaya Field Police Brigade of General Dukhopelnikov.

During the Second World War, the soldiers of the German army were "engaged" by the field gendarmerie. On the other hand, the field police were responsible for observing the occupation regime, and when the Germans retreated, they turned the front line into the "Scorched Earth Zone".

Warsaw, August 1944. Nazi collaborators put down the Polish uprising. In the center is Major Ivan Frolov, along with other officers. The soldier on the right, judging by the patch, belongs to the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) of General Vlasov. Photo: en.wikipedia.org

The field police brigade was not the first Cossack formation that the Nazis created in the Crimea. Back in December 1941, in the town of Tavel, Simferopol region, they formed a "Cossack reconnaissance and sabotage detachment of the reconnaissance Abwehr command of the NBO (from German "Nahrichtenbeobachter")."

The detachment was subordinate to the commander of the German naval forces of the southeastern basin, specialized in naval intelligence in the Black and Azov seas, sabotage against the North Caucasian and 3rd Ukrainian fronts and the fight against Soviet partisans.

This Cossack unit was located in Simferopol until October 1943. In February 1942, one of the squadrons of the "Cossack cavalry regiment "Jungshults" was created in the city of Simferopol. Finally, in August of the same 1942, from the Don and Kuban Cossacks of the Simferopol POW camp, the Germans formed the “1st Andreevskaya Hundred of the Cossack Special Purpose Regiment of the Abvergroup-201”.

This hundred was commanded by a German - Lieutenant Hirsch. It was used in reconnaissance of the near rear of the Soviet troops. Separate Cossacks were sent to the Soviet tya with sabotage and reconnaissance missions. Apparently, the modern "Crimean Cossacks" are the heirs of these scum, because they had no other predecessors in the Crimea.

The total number of Cossacks who fought on the side of the Third Reich in 1941-1945 reached one hundred thousand. These "fighters for the fatherland" fought alongside the Nazis against the Red Army until the last days of the war. They left a trail of blood behind them from Stalingrad to Poland, Austria and Yugoslavia.

The Luhansk officials did not publish the above historical information. They show great awareness of those German collaborators who fought thousands of kilometers from the Luhansk region, but do not know and do not want to know anything about Hitler's Cossack collaborators in local and neighboring territories.

A few words about the "St. George's ribbons" that are now clinging in honor of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

Not a single soldier of the Red Army during the war received any award or distinction under the name "Georgievskaya":

St. George's crosses, award weapons and chevrons were then received by the Cossacks who served in the "Great Germany".

Every year on May 9 in the Lugansk region and, in particular, in Ostra Mohyla, in Krasnodon and on the Mius Front, during the celebrations and celebrations on the occasion of Victory Day, the authorities say: "We honor our history and will not allow anyone ...".

KRASNOV P.N. (Brigadier Fuhrer fascist troops SS) - Cavalier of the Order of St. George 4th degree and Golden St. George weapons with St. George ribbons, general of the Russian Imperial Army, ataman of the All-Great Don Army (unrecognized state on the Don). Born in St. Petersburg, from the nobility of the Don Cossacks. During the Great Patriotic War, by the decree of the head of the SS Reichsführer P.N. KRASNOV was appointed head of the Main Directorate of the Cossack Troops of the Imperial Ministry of the Eastern Occupied Territories of the Third Reich. In May 1945, he and 2,400 Cossack officers were transferred from the British command to the Soviet command. By the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the country, P.N. KRASNOV together with A.G. SHKURO, T.N. DOMANOV, Sultan-Girey Klych, S.N. P.N. Krasnov was sentenced to hanging and executed by decision of the Collegium of the Supreme Court of the country in 1947 - for treason. Nationalist and monarchist organizations in Russia and abroad have repeatedly requested the rehabilitation of these and other Russian traitors who fought against the USSR on the side of Hitler. In 1997, P. N. KRASNOV, A. G. SHKURO, SULTAN-GIREY KLYCH, S. N. KRASNOV, and T. I. Domanov were recognized as not subject to rehabilitation.

SS Brigadenfuehrer Krasnov P.N.and Gruppen-Fuhrer SS Pannwitz (shot by court order, not subject to rehabilitation)

KRASNOV S.N.(Brigadier Fuhrer fascist troops SS) - Krasnov's brother P.N., who was hanged together with his traitor brother. His sonMiguel KRASNOV - Brigadier General of Pinochet's intelligence in Chile during the reign of the Pinochet junta - convicted by a Chilean court on charges of involvement in crimes against humanity from 1973 to 1989.

SHKURO A.G. - Cavalier of the Golden St. George's weapon and the Cross of Salvation of the Kuban 1st degree with the St. George ribbon, commander of the Cossack Kuban corps during the Civil War in Russia, lieutenant general. In 1944, SHKURO, by a special decree of the head of the SS Reichsführer HIMMLER, was appointed head of the Reserve of Cossack troops at the Main Headquarters of the SS troops, enlisted as a Gruppenfuehrer (German Gruppenfuhrer ) SS with the right to wear a general's uniform and receive maintenance for this rank. The head of the Gestapo Müller had the same rank in the SS. Shkuro was sentenced to hanging and executed by decision of the Board of the Supreme Court of the country in 1947 - for treason, together with KRASNOV, PANNVITZ, DOMANOV.

Helmut von Pannwitz (Gruppen Fuhrer of the fascist SS troops) cavalryman, participant of the First and Second World Wars, Supreme Marching Ataman of the Cossack Camp, SS Gruppenführer, Lieutenant General of the SS troops. Knight John. Although he was not a Knight of St. George, he was the closest associate of Krasnov, Shkuro and a prominent leader of the Russian Cossacks in the service of Hitler. Examples of activities are as follows.In the course of repulsing the Soviet offensive in the North Caucasus in the winter of 1942-1943, the “von Pannwitz Combat Group”, which included mounted and foot Cossack units, a tank detachment, a Romanian cavalry brigade, a Romanian battery of motorized heavy artillery, separate rear and transport units and several anti-aircraft guns destroyed the 61st Soviet division that broke through the front, then the 81st Soviet cavalry division and the Soviet rifle division (under Pimen Cherny / Nebykov). In March 1943, in the town of Milau, Pannwitz led the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division, formed from the Cossack regiments of von Renteln, von Jungshultz, von Bezelager, Yaroslav Kotulinsky, Ivan Kononov, 1st Sinegorsky Atamansky and so on. The division since October 1943 participated in the battles in Croatia against the communist partisans of Tito. In connection with the reassignment of the corps to the command of the SS troops, on February 1, 1945, he received the rank of SS Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the SS troops. The Cossack division was deployed in the XV Cossack Cavalry Corps of the SS, which on April 20, 1945 was reassigned to the KONR. In 1945, he was unanimously elected by the All-Cossack Circle in Virovititsa as the Supreme Marching Ataman of the "Cossack camp". He perceived his election as a great responsibility and the highest honor - since 1835, the title of Supreme Ataman of the Cossack Troops was borne by the Heir to the Russian Imperial Throne (thus, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich was the immediate predecessor in this post of Helmut von Pannwitz). pannwitzsentenced to hanging and executed by decision of the Board of the Supreme Court of the country in 1947, along with KRASNOV and other Russian Nazis.

Domanov T. I. - Cavalier of St. George's Crosses of the 1st degree, 2nd degree, 3rd degree, 4th degree with St. George's ribbons. Centurion of the White Army. He was left as an agent of the NKVD in the territory occupied by the Nazis, but voluntarily went over to the Nazis - as a lieutenant of the Don Cossacks. Major-General of the Nazi Wehrmacht, field ataman of the Cossack camp of the Main Directorate of Cossack Troops under the Ministry of the Occupied Eastern Territories of the Third Reich. He especially distinguished himself with punitive operations against partisans in the Zaporozhye region and in Belarus. Formed, for example, 2 Cossack regiments (about 3 thousand people) to fight the partisans. Sentenced to hanging and executed by decision of the Board of the Supreme Court of the country in 1947 - for treason, together with KRASNOV, SHKURO, PANNVITZ.

SEVASTYANOV A.N. (Major General of the Nazi Wehrmacht) - Cavalier of the St. George Cross of the 4th degree with the St. George ribbon. Brigade commander of the Red Army, and then changed his oath and became a major general of the ROA. In June 1943, he participated in the construction of defensive structures for German troops in the Oryol and Bryansk regions, organized the evacuation of the families of the leaders of the 29th RONA assault brigade. In 1945 he was Deputy Commander of Personnel of the Armed Forces of the KONR. For treason to the Motherland Sevastyanov A.N. sentenced to hanging and executed by decision of the Board of the Supreme Court of the country in 1947.

SEMENOV G.M. - Cavalier of the Order of St. George 4th class. and the Golden Weapon "For Courage" with St. George's Ribbons. Supreme Commander of the Far Eastern Army during the Civil War, Lieutenant General. He awarded the Cross of the Special Manchurian Detachment with the St. George Ribbon. In 1945, he announced his subordination to the Armed Forces of the KONR, General Vlasov. In 1946, he was sentenced to death by hanging with confiscation of property - as "an enemy of the Soviet people and an active accomplice of the Japanese aggressors."

Shteifon B.A. (Lieutenant General of the Nazi Wehrmacht) - Cavalier of St. George's weapons, commander of the Russian Corps, lieutenant general. Major General (08.1920). Major General of the Wehrmacht (10.1941). He graduated from the Chuguev Military School (1902) and the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff (1911). Member of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905: second lieutenant of the 124th Voronezh Infantry Regiment. Member of the First World War: in the Caucasian army, a member of the campaign against Erzrum; awarded the St. George weapon for reconnaissance operations near Erzrum. In the White Movement: Chief of Staff of the 3rd Infantry Division; commander of the Belozersky and Arkhangelsk regiments; Chief of Staff of the Poltava Detachment, General Bredov N.E. Member of the Bredovsky campaign and breakthrough to Poland as part of the Russian Volunteer Army of General Bredov (about 6000 bayonets); 12.1919-02.1920. Interned in Poland, 02-07.1920. He returned with part of the army of General Bredov from Poland to the Crimea, to the Russian army of General Wrangel; 08.1920. Promoted to major general. General in the headquarters of General Wrangel, 09-11.1920. Evacuated from Crimea to Gallipoli (Turkey) 11.1920. Head of the Gallipoli camp. In exile: Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, France, Germany. Worked in ROVS; 1921 - 12/12/1926. Engaged in journalism and literature. During the Second World War, he collaborated with the German troops, opposing the USSR. Chief of Staff of the Russian Guard Corps in Yugoslavia (Serbia), 10.1941. Commander of the Russian Corps, 10.1941-30.04.1945. He died suddenly in Zagreb (Croatia) on 04/30/1945 (according to another version, he was killed). He was buried in the city of Kranj (Yugoslavia, Serbia), buried at the German military cemetery at his request. Under his command, the corps fought against the Yugoslav partisans of Tito, and then with the regular units of the Red Army after it entered the Balkans at the end of 1944. He demanded that the German command be transferred to the Eastern Front, but he was refused. STEIFON Born in Kharkov. Father, shop foreman, from baptized Jews, later became a merchant of the 3rd guild. Mother is the daughter of a deacon. In 2010, in Kharkov, in the Orthodox Church of St. Alexandra The Moscow Patriarchate, with the blessing of the Metropolitan of Kharkov and Bogodukhovsky Nikodim, was installed for the ranks of the Drozdov division, members of the Kharkov underground center "Colonel B.A. Shteyfon" (!?). In Tsarist Russia, one had to be an "Orthodox Christian" to enter many educational institutions, so the Jews were forced to accept Christianity and even marry the daughters of deacons.

TURKUL A.V. (Major General of the Nazi Wehrmacht) - Cavalier of the Order of St. George of the 4th degree, the Golden Weapon "For Courage", the St. George's Cross of the 3rd degree, the St. George's Cross of the 4th degree with St. George's ribbons. In 1941-1943, Turkul tried to restore the activities of the RNSUV (Russian National Union of War Veterans). He collaborated with the German authorities, in 1945 he was the head of the department for the formation of parts of the ROA and the commander of a volunteer brigade in Austria. After 1945 in Germany, chairman of the Committee of Russian defectors. He died in 1957 in exile in Munich.

The most smiling in the photo SS Gruppenführer Shkuro (shot by court order, not subject to rehabilitation)

Some more holders of the St. George awards.

• Colonel of the ROA KROMIADI, head of the personal office of Lieutenant General Vlasov, died in exile in 1990.
• Chief of the Propaganda Department of the KONR Air Force Headquarters, Major ALBOV, died in exile in 1989.
• Camping Ataman of the Terek Cossack Army, Colonel KULAKOV - "tortured by the Chekists" in Austria in 1945
• Commander of the 3rd Regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA of the General Staff, Major General GONTAREV, was awarded the Order of St. George, 4th class. He died in 1977 in exile in Austria.
• Chief of Staff of the 1st Aviation Regiment of the KONR Air Force, Major SHEBALIN - died in exile in 1964.
• Commander of the 1st Cossack Regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA, Major General ZBOROVSKY, awarded the St. George weapon. He died in a military hospital on October 9, 1944 in Graz (Austria) from wounds received in battle with the "red gangs".
• Colonel GALUSHKIN, commander of the 1st battalion of the 5th regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA, was awarded the St. George weapon, died in exile in 1964.
• Doctor of the 1st Regiment of the Russian Corps GOLUBEYEV, was awarded the St. George Cross of the 4th degree in November 1941 for having received two wounds under fire from Serbian partisans but continued to bandage the wounded.
• The commander of the 3rd battalion of the 5th regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA, Major General IVANOV, was awarded the St. George weapon. He died on May 11, 1972 in exile in Venezuela.
• Chief sergeant major of the 2nd company of the 3rd regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA Colonel LYUBOMIROV, awarded the Order of St. George 4th class. He died on September 9, 1972 in exile in France.
• Fighter of the 3rd regiment of the Russian Corps ROA cornet MIKHAILOVSKY. During the 1st Civil War, he was awarded two St. George's Crosses. He died on May 17, 1964 in exile.
• The commander of the artillery platoon of the 3rd regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA, Colonel MURZIN, was awarded the St. George weapon. He died on 12/16/1978 in exile.
• The company commander of the 4th regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA, lieutenant colonel NEVZOROV, was awarded the St. George weapon. Died 04/30/1978 in Australia.
• Colonel NESTERENKO, commander of the 9th company of the 2nd regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA, was awarded the St. George weapon. Killed while working at a mine in Argentina on February 28, 1952.
• Commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA, Major General SKVORTSOV, was awarded the St. George weapon. He died on April 19, 1967 in exile.
• Commander of the Russian Corps, Major General SKORODUMOV, awarded the Order of St. George 4th class. He died on 11/15/1963 in exile.
• Junior officer of the 6th hundred of the 1st Cossack regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA, Major General STARITSKY, was awarded the St. George weapon. He died on May 16, 1975 in emigration.
• Commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA, Major General CHEREPOV, awarded the Order of St. George 4th Art. and George arms. He died on February 15, 1964 in exile.
• The commander of the PAK company (anti-tank guns) of the Russian Corps of the ROA, Colonel SHATILOV, was awarded the St. George weapon, died on 03/20/1972 in exile.
• Junker of the 4th machine-gun platoon of the 1st cadet company of the 1st regiment of the Russian Corps ROA SHAUB, in December 1941 was seriously wounded in the lung during the defense of the Capital mine in Serbia, awarded the St. George Cross of the 4th degree, lived in Switzerland.
• The commander of the 1st battalion of the 1st regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA of the General Staff, Captain SHELL, was awarded the St. George weapon, died in 1963 in West Germany.
• Commander of the 10th company of the 2nd regiment of the Russian Corps of the ROA, Colonel YAKUBOVSKY. Awarded with the St. George weapon. He died on January 23, 1974 in exile.
• Fighter of the 6th hundred of the 1st Cossack regiment of the Russian Corps ROA GOLOSHCHAPOV, awarded the St. George weapon and the Order of St. George 4th class, died in 1963 in exile in Brazil. By the way, now it is clear why Gubarev, sending visitors from Russia to their death, addresses them: "Fighters! ...".
  

Hitler's Reichsminister Goebbels awards Don Cossacks for their valiant service in the SS(1944)

Modern metamorphoses of the St. George Ribbon are displayed on many sites of the Russian Federation, where the memory of the true winners of the Great Patriotic War is still preserved. It should be noted that without the help of the United States, Great Britain and other fighters against fascism in Europe there would have been no Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The so-called “Banderites” were in fact never citizens of the USSR and fought for the creation of a free Ukraine, for the opportunity to go to church, against collectivization, against the communists, against drinking vodka in “glasses”, etc. They were right, and 1991 proved it. No one will live in the Soviet Union anymore and no one wants to live in the same country as Putin and Zhirinovsky (Eidelstein).

Unlike the "Bandera", the holders of the St. George's regalia betrayed their homeland to Russia in the most difficult hour of mortal trials for her during the Great Patriotic War. Modern carriers of the "George Ribbons" are blood relatives and spiritual heirs of the traitors to Russia during the Great Patriotic War, the elderly participants lowered by themGreat Patriotic War, and deceived by them young people who do not know history. Most of this entire audience are blood relatives of traitors.

After the Second World War, Germany repeatedly admitted its mistakes, the Kremlin never, but always tries to teach morality to all near and far neighbors again. Because the leaders of the Russian Federation are outcasts among leaders who turn their country and people into outcasts among countries and peoples. All external and internal propaganda of the Russian Federation is aimed at quarreling "everyone with everyone and everyone with everyone."

The St. George ribbon has nothing to do with the winners of the Great Patriotic War, the awards of the USSR and the soldiers of the Red Army (Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army) and the Soviet Army , because she was attached to the Order of St. George, which was officially awarded in the Russian Empire, in the tsarist army hated by the Soviet people.

In 1917-1924, the rebel soldiers and sailors killed tens of thousands of White Guard officers for their boorish attitude towards the people. This award has been revived only in Putin's Russia in recent years.

In our Soviet Army and in the army of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, they were awarded the Order of Glory and the medal "For the Capture of Berlin" on which there was a Guards Ribbon, with orders and medals being the main ones, and the ribbons on them had no special symbolic meaning 60 years after the Victory, until Zhirinovsky (Eidelstein) and Putin did not triumph in the Russian Federation.

Gitsevich L.A. for many years he has been playing the role of “son of the regiment” and “war hero” in the center of Moscow every May 9 of recent years and collect the maximum number of “classes” in Odnoklassniki, Vkontaktik and My World.

INCONVENIENT TOPIC Domestic historians are reluctant to raise the issue of the Cossacks who fought on the side of Hitler. Even those who touched on this topic tried to emphasize that the tragedy of the Cossacks of World War II was closely intertwined with the Bolshevik genocide of the 1920s and 1930s. Among those who swore allegiance to Hitler were Astrakhan, Kuban, Terek, Ural, Siberian Cossacks. But the overwhelming majority of collaborators among the Cossacks were still residents of the Don lands. In the territories occupied by the Germans, Cossack police battalions were created, the main task of which was to fight the partisans. So, in September 1942, near the farm of the Pshenichny Stanichno-Lugansk region, the Cossack policemen, together with the punitive detachments of the Gestapo, succeeded in defeating the partisan detachment under the command of Ivan Yakovenko. Often, the Cossacks acted as guards of prisoners of war of the Red Army. Under the German commandant's offices there were also Cossack hundreds who performed police tasks. Two such hundreds of Don Cossacks were stationed in the village of Luganskaya and two more in Krasnodon. For the first time, a proposal to form Cossack units to fight partisans was put forward by a German counterintelligence officer, Baron von Kleist. In October 1941, the Quartermaster General of the German General Staff, Eduard Wagner, having studied this proposal, allowed the commanders of the rear areas of the Army Groups North, Center and South to form Cossack units from prisoners of war to use them in the fight against the partisan movement. Why did the formation of Cossack units not meet opposition from the functionaries of the NSDAP, and, moreover, was encouraged by the German authorities? Historians answer that this is due to the doctrine of the Fuhrer, who did not classify the Cossacks as Russians, considering them a separate people - the descendants of the Ostrogoths. Unlike other projects for the formation of national units from former citizens of the USSR, Hitler and his inner circle looked favorably on the idea of ​​forming Cossack units, as they adhered to the theory that the Cossacks were descendants of the Goths, and therefore belonged not to the Slavic, but to the Aryan race . In addition, at the beginning of Hitler's political career, he was supported by some Cossack leaders. Oath One of the first in the Wehrmacht was the Cossack unit under the command of Kononov. On August 22, 1941, Red Army Major Ivan Kononov announced his decision to go over to the enemy and invited everyone to join him. Thus, the major, the officers of his headquarters and several dozen Red Army soldiers of the regiment were captured. There, Kononov recalled that he was the son of a Cossack captain hanged by the Bolsheviks, and expressed his readiness to cooperate with the Nazis. The Don Cossacks who had gone over to the side of the Reich did not miss the opportunity and tried to demonstrate their loyalty to the Nazi regime. On October 24, 1942, a “Cossack parade” took place in Krasnodon, with which the Don Cossacks showed their devotion to the command of the Wehrmacht and the German administration. After a prayer service for the health of the Cossacks and the speedy victory of the German army, a letter of greeting to Adolf Hitler was read, which, in particular, said: “We, the Don Cossacks, are the remnants of the survivors of the cruel Jewish-Stalinist terror, fathers and grandchildren, sons and brothers of those who died in a fierce struggle with the Bolsheviks, we send you, the great commander, the brilliant statesman, the builder of New Europe, the Liberator and friend of the Don Cossacks, our warm Don Cossack greetings! Many Cossacks, including those who did not share the admiration for the Fuhrer, nevertheless welcomed the Reich's policy aimed at opposing the Cossacks and Bolshevism. “Whatever the Germans, it won’t be worse,” such statements were heard very often. ORGANIZATION The general leadership for the formation of the Cossack units was entrusted to the head of the Main Directorate of the Cossack Troops of the Imperial Ministry of the Eastern Occupied Territories of Germany, General Peter Krasnov. "Cossacks! Remember, you are not Russians, you are Cossacks, an independent people. The Russians are hostile to you,” the general kept reminding his subordinates. - Moscow has always been an enemy of the Cossacks, crushed and exploited them. Now the time has come when we, the Cossacks, can create our own life independent of Moscow.” As Krasnov noted, extensive cooperation between the Cossacks and the Nazis began in the autumn of 1941. In addition to the 102nd volunteer Cossack unit of Kononov, a Cossack reconnaissance battalion of the 14th tank corps, a Cossack reconnaissance squadron of the 4th security scooter regiment and a Cossack sabotage detachment under the German special services were also created at the headquarters of the rear command of Army Group Center. In addition, since the end of 1941, Cossack hundreds began to appear regularly in the German army. In the summer of 1942, the cooperation of the Cossacks with the German authorities entered a new phase. Since that time, large Cossack formations - regiments and divisions - began to be created as part of the troops of the Third Reich. NUMBERS How many Cossacks during the entire period of the war fought on the side of Nazi Germany? According to the order of the German command of June 18, 1942, all prisoners of war who were Cossacks by origin and considered themselves as such were to be sent to a camp in the city of Slavuta. By the end of June, 5826 people were concentrated in the camp. It was decided to begin the formation of Cossack units from this contingent. By the middle of 1943, the Wehrmacht had about 20 Cossack regiments of various strengths and a large number of small units, the total number of which reached 25 thousand people. When the Germans began to retreat in 1943, hundreds of thousands of Don Cossacks with their families moved along with the troops. According to experts, the number of Cossacks exceeded 135,000 people. After the end of the war on the territory of Austria, the allied forces detained and transferred to the Soviet zone of occupation a total of 50 thousand Cossacks. Among them was General Krasnov. Researchers have calculated that at least 70,000 Cossacks served in the Wehrmacht, parts of the Waffen-SS and in the auxiliary police during the war years, most of which were Soviet citizens who defected to Germany during the occupation. According to the historian Kirill Alexandrov, about 1.24 million citizens of the USSR carried out military service on the side of Germany in 1941-1945: among them 400 thousand were Russians, including 80 thousand in Cossack formations. Political scientist Sergei Markedonov suggests that among these 80 thousand, only 15-20 thousand were not Cossacks by origin. Most of the Cossacks extradited by the allies received long terms in the Gulag, and the Cossack elite, who acted on the side of Nazi Germany, were sentenced to death by hanging by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.