Sergei Kuzmich Bunyachenko

Sergei Bunyachenko ( Ukrainian Сергій Кузьмич Буняченко , Russian Сергей Кузьмич Буняченко ) (* 5. October 1902 in Korowjakowka , Kursk ; † 1. August 1946 in Moscow executed) was a general of the Russian Liberation Army (Russian Russkaya Oswoboditelnaja Armija , ROA ). After he was taken prisoner as commander of a division of the Red Army in 1942, he changed sides and together with Andrei A. Wlasow helped to build the ROA, which fought on the German side against the Soviet Union. He was the commander of the only actually established ROA division, the 600th (Russian) Infantry Division .

Bunjachenko came from a humble background and had already been a division commander in the Far East in 1939 . As commander of the 389th Rifle Division, he was sentenced to death on September 2, 1942 , because he had given the order to destroy the Izerskaya-Ossetinskaya railway line prematurely, thereby preventing the use of an armored train . The sentence was changed into 10 years of imprisonment , which would have to be served after the end of the war. In October 1942 he was given command of the independent 59th Rifle Brigade, after the destruction of which he was taken prisoner by the 2nd Romanian Infantry Division on December 5, 1942. In early 1943 Bunjatschenko joined the ROA. At first he ran an officers' school, but from September 1943 he acted as a liaison officer to the 7th Army . On November 10, 1944, he took command of the 600th Infantry Division. After a brief deployment of his 600th Infantry Division (ROA) against a Soviet bridgehead on the Oder in April 1945, Bunjachenko led his unit to Prague . In the hope of finding a military and state home in a new Czechoslovak state, he took part in the Czech revolt against the remnants of the German occupation forces on May 6, 1945 . But in the end he had to flee from there from the invading Red Army and place himself in the hands of the Americans.

On May 13, 1945 Bunjachenko was extradited by the Western Allies to the Soviet authorities . Along with Vlasov and seven other leaders of the ROA he was on 31 July 1946 by a short process behind closed doors Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR for treason sentenced to death and the next morning at 2am executed .

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