title: Participation of Russian Emigrants and Soviet POWs in the Resistance Movement on the Island of Oléron in 1944–1945
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metadata.value: Reshetnikov, S. V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-30T08:54:41Z
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metadata.value: 2022-06-30T08:54:41Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Reshetnikov S. V. ‘Participation of Russian Emigrants and Soviet POWs in the Resistance Movement on the Island of Oléron in 1944–1945’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, pp. 58–74.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.103
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37023
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metadata.value: The article explores a little-known episode of the joint anti-fascist struggle of Russian emigrants and
  Soviet citizens on the French Island of Oléron during the Second World War. In the fall of 1943, the Germans
  began to transfer Eastern Wehrmacht troops, formed from Soviet citizens, to France. In the spring of 1944, one of
  the companies of these Eastern Wehrmacht troops arrived on the island of Oléron to guard the Atlantic coast. At
  that time, a group of Russian emigrants headed by V. B. Sosinskiy and V. L. Andreev lived on the island, and they
  decided to get to know the Soviet soldiers who had arrived there. Freed from German captivity, Sosinskiy decided
  to form a partisan group from these soldiers, which, after the first sabotage operation, officially became part of
  the French Resistance. Sosinskiy’s group, initially collecting only intelligence data, soon began active sabotage
  actions, which seriously reduced the combat capability of the local German garrison and allowed the Allies to
  quickly liberate the island during its assault at the end of the war. The soldiers were convicted after they returned
  home, but after returning to civilian life, they were rehabilitated with the help of immigrants.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War II
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet POWs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian emigration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: collaboration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: resistance movement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: France
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Oléron Island
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Eastern Wehrmacht troops
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Participation of Russian Emigrants and Soviet POWs in the Resistance Movement on the Island of Oléron in 1944–1945
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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