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Russian Liberation Army (Русская
Освободительная
Армия, whose
cyrillic initials are of course
РОА). This was Lt. General
Andrei Andreievich Vlasov’s army (rather an amalgamation of many units)
which reached about 750 000 men at its strongest point.
Santiago Dotor, 09 Jun 2000
The flag of ROA
was simply the Andrew’s flag
without red border. (Fotos of this flag with nazi-flag side-by-side at
Committee of liberation of peoples of Russia in Prague in 1944 known to
historicians.)
Victor Lomantsov, 01 Oct 2001
According to Andrey Jahwlanski, Sergey Drobiazko and George Mamulia in
Flag Report 17 [frp], ROA
used the white flag with blue St. Andrew’s cross (without red border)
and some units used the tricolor.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Jul 2001
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The ROA “coat of arms” was Argent, bordered Gules a saltire
Azure. That shield as a sleeve badge were placed on bigger one, which was
olive-green, with (yellow) letters "РОА" (it is ROA) in
chief of that darker shield.
Aleš Krížan, 19 Jun 2001
The ROA arm badge (really a patch) depicted a blue saltire on a white,
shield-shaped background, with a red border around the entire shield. The
red-bordered shield was itself located on a black background underneath the
gold Cyrillic initials "РОА". But the flag of ROA
was simply the Andrew’s flag
without red border.
Victor Lomantsov, 01 Oct 2001
According to Andrey Jahwlanski, Sergey Drobiazko and George Mamulia in
Flag Report 17 [frp], the ROA
used this emblem on the center of a
Russian tricolor and it was used by the Military
Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia.
Jaume Ollé, 14 Jul 2001
David Littlejohn [ltj87] says that
«The flag of the ROA was a blue saltire on white with a narrow
red edging», thus identical to the unit’s arm badge.
Santiago Dotor, 09 Jun 2000
The ROA arm badge (really a patch) depicted a blue saltire on a white,
shield-shaped background, with a red border around the entire shield,
not around the saltire itself.
Victor Lomantsov, 01 Oct 2001
This design, a Russian St. Andrew’s flag
with red fimbriation along the cross, was based in a misunderstating of the
original written description from [ltj87].
It was hosted in this site long enough to become
dangerously widespread. So, a word of caution: This flag design never
existed!
António Martins, 28 May 2007
RONA (or РОНА in cyrillic
characters) stood for "Russian Liberation Peoples’ Army"
(Русская
Освободительная
Народная
Армия), a grandiloquent title for the
infamous 15,000-strong anti-partisan unit led by Bronislav Kaminski
(who was shot by the SS under charges of looting).
David Littlejohn in Foreign Legions of the Third Reich
[ltj87]
speaks of no flag for the RONA, but describes and
illustrates its arm badge as a fully-black Cross of Saint George (a
Czarist order, a cross formy whose arms join in a small central disc
crossed by two swords, as can be seen
here
— though this is the 4th Class which lacked the crossed swords).
Santiago Dotor, 09 Jun 2000
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