This thread is inspired by the Time-Life book on POWs during WWII- Gen Andrei Vlasov was probably the closest the Nazis had for being a competent, charismatic anti-Stalin military leader to head a Russian liberation army, but Hitler, Himmler & Nazi bureaucracy & racism distrusted his potential, meaning that only belatedly in fall 1944 was Vlassov given effective command over a substantial no. of Russian ex-POWs forming RONA- the Russian Liberation Army- by which time it was too late to affect the outcome of the war on the Eastern Front.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlasov_army
What PODs then would be required for RONA to have become more effective to stand a chance of enabling Vlasov to have marched at the head of an anti-Soviet Russian liberation army which took Moscow ?\
Also, another related POD from the above wiki page- in July 1942, Vlasov was offered the choice to be flown out of the encircled Lyuban-Chudovo pocket, but declined, leadinbg to his later capture. WI he'd gotten on board that plane ? Would the prospect fo a Russian liberation movement have totally ceased to exist without a high-ranking disaffected Soviet general like Vlasov in German hands ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlasov_army
What PODs then would be required for RONA to have become more effective to stand a chance of enabling Vlasov to have marched at the head of an anti-Soviet Russian liberation army which took Moscow ?\
Also, another related POD from the above wiki page- in July 1942, Vlasov was offered the choice to be flown out of the encircled Lyuban-Chudovo pocket, but declined, leadinbg to his later capture. WI he'd gotten on board that plane ? Would the prospect fo a Russian liberation movement have totally ceased to exist without a high-ranking disaffected Soviet general like Vlasov in German hands ?