Fighter from Russian Protective Corps of Yugoslavia with his horse

Fighter from Russian Protective Corps of Yugoslavia with his horse

May 23, 2019 #Red Army, #yugoslavs
Fighter from Russian Protective Corps of Yugoslavia

 

A cavalry soldier of the Russian Protective Corps of Yugoslavia (Russisches Schutzkorps of the Nazi Wehrmacht).
The soldier’s helmet is a so-called Serbian volunteer cross, and on the chest is a sign indicating the end of the Nikolaev Academy of the general staff of the tsarist army of the Russian Empire.
Russisches Schutzkorps Serbien – a corps formed of Russian émigrés and citizens of the USSR, acting on the side of Nazi Germany during World War II In particular, the corps fought against the guerrillas of the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Army.


Russian Protective Corps

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