Spanish sadness. Blue Division and campaign in Russia, 1941–1942 Memoirs of V.I. Kovalevsky

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Vladimir Ivanovich Kovalevsky was from a generation of Russian officers who never finished "their" war. Having passed the First World War and not accepting the revolution, Kovalevsky was among the first ranks of the Volunteer Army, and in 1920 he left the Crimea with the Whites. Then there was service in the French Foreign Legion, studies in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and a war on the side of General Franco in Spain. In the summer of 1941, Kovalevsky signed up as an interpreter in the Spanish 250th division of the Wehrmacht, known as the Blue Division, with which he went on a campaign against the USSR. In the Novgorod region, he saw in its entirety the gloomy picture of the suffering of the civilian population “under the Spaniards” and experienced a breakdown, disappointed in illusions and his own unsightly role as “a stranger among strangers”. In the spring of 1942, Kovalevsky returned to San Sebastian, where, in hot pursuit, he wrote these memoirs "on the table", which never saw the light of day during the author's lifetime. They contain the unrealizable hopes of the Russian diaspora, an unfamiliar look “from the other side of the front” and the throwing of a loner who has made a fatal choice.

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Publication language: Russian

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