[PEN-L:1221] An interesting tid-bit

["Frank Durgin" <fdurgin1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Writing in the August 18 issue of Sel'skaya zhizn', Vladimir Solov'yev made
the observation that the white-blue-red tri-color chosen by Yeltsin as the
flag
of the Russian Federation was the flag under which the turncoat General
Andrei Vlasov's army fought against the Red Army in World War II.


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General Vlasov was a Red Army General who was taken prisoner, defected,
recruited several thousand (850,000 by some count) Russian POWs and
civilian deportees in Germany and formed an army that fought in German
uniforms against the Red Army.