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Dr. Alexander Rudolfovich Trushnovich, Pan-Slavic Patriot and Anticommunist
Dr. Alexander Trushnovich was a Slovenian, born in the Slovenian town of Postoino (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire) in 1893, to a family of railroad workers. He initially found his calling in medicine, and studied in Austria to become a doctor.
In 1914, Trushnovich is forced to enlist into the Austro-Hungarian army. He is sent as a officer to the Eastern front. Trushnovich was ideologically opposed to fighting against the Russians, believing that only the victory of Russia will bring the Slavic peoples national independence. While the Austrian army was preparing to attack, Trushnovich escapes and surrenders to the Russian Army as had many Slavs who shared Trushnovich's slavophilic ideology.
Receiving an official pardon from Tsar Nicholas the Second, Trushnovich is accepted into the Russian Army's First Serbian Volunteer Division. Trushnovich fondly remembers Tsar Nicholas during a troop inspection as being very inspiring to him and his fellow Slavic volunteers.
Trushnovich fights with great distinction, earning the Russian order of St. Anne and the highest Serbian medal, the White Eagle. While lying wounded at a hospital, Trushnovich meets a nurse Zina, whom he marries shortly afterwards.
After the February revolution of 1917, the Serbian division is officially disbanded, and Trushnovich voluntarily joins the Russian Army, serving under General Laurus Kornilov. When the Bolsheviks take power a few months later, General Kornilov sends the trusted Trushnovich to negotiate a union between the newly formed Russian anti-Bolshevik Volunteers Army and the Czechoslovakian Corps, at that time located in Kiev. The leader of the Czechoslovakian corps, General Masarik, refuses Kornilov's offer and suggests Trushnovich join his Czechoslovakian Corps on the spot. Trushnovich adamantly refuses, declaring "With us is God, and the 3,000 strong Volunteers Army!"
In 1919, after suffering typhus, Trushnovich and his family leaves to the town of Zagradno, which had fallen into Italian hands. Thanks to an Italian officer, he is not expelled by the slavophobic Italian powers. His sense of slavophilic duty calling again, the determined Trushnovich leaves his family and voluntarily returns to Russia in order to continue his service in the White Army.
After being surrounded in battle, Trushnovich is taken prisoner by the Reds. The CheKa (Soviet secret police) arrest him and intend to execute him for covering up several of his officer friends as privates (who usually suffered a less severe fate than officers). Several Serbs end up saving Trushnovich from the firing squad, although he continues his tenure in prison (receiving better treatment from the Reds as a former Austro-Hungarian soldier, than his Russian White colleagues).
Trushnovich escapes execution for the second time, once again thanks to his Serbian colleagues. His attempts to return to the White Army are unsuccessful. After the Whites are defeated in 1920, he tries to escape to Romania, but is forced by the Romanians to return to Soviet soil.
The next seven years Trushnovich, with the help of Serbs and Russians, stays in Soviet Russia under a disguised identity, working primarily as a doctor. Thanks to his relatives abroad, through the Polish consul he finally obtains a Yugoslavian passport and returns to Lyubliana, Yugoslavia.
Arriving in Belgrade in 1935, Trushnovich meets with the members of a newly formed Russian patriotic organization, the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (Narodno-Trudovoi Soyuz - NTS). NTS, made up of convicted young Russian anticommunists of a strong slavophilic orientation, welcomes Trushnovich - who's expertise on the Soviet system becomes invaluable to the organization.
Trushnovich continues his medical practice in Yugoslavia, while writing two books, "The Old and New Russia" in Serbian (1937) and "The Cabin on the Intersection" in Russian (1940). In 1941 he joins NTS officially, and in 1942 he is placed in charge of NTS's underground chapters in Nazi occupied Serbia, where he also keeps ties with the underground Serbian nationalist organization "Sbor".
In 1944, in hopes of renewing his fight against Bolshevism, Trushnovich joins the ill-fated anticommunist Russian Liberation Army of General Vlasov. He is sent by Vlasov to arrange a union between the RLA and Serbian general Draza Mihailovich's Chetniks for the purposes of creating a pan-Slavic liberation movement, but on the way is captured and arrested by the French.
Trushnovich is eventually released and attends as a doctor to Russian POW's in displaced person camps. While arranging for much needed medical aid and petitioning for the creation of Russian schools in ally occupied Germany, Trushnovich continues fighting Bolshevism. As a representative of the Hamburg Aid Committee for Orthodox (Christian) Refugees in 1950, he is able to covertly support the anticommunist underground within the red army. Trushnovich also enlists the help of slavophilic German anticommunists, helping create the Free Union of Russo-German Friendship.
Trushnovich fights with a pen as well as with the sword. In 1947 he writes and publishes his third book, "Russia and Slavicism". He becomes a well respected theoretician for slavophilic anticommunists.
In the form of secret booklets and leaflets, Trushnovich's deep, profound articles such as "At the Price of a Feat" ("Tsennoyu Podviga") inspire Russian soldiers and sailors serving in the Red Army to resist Stalinism. Trushnovich also speaks his dismay at the waves of Russophobia permiating several national Slavic anticommunist movements, which penned the blame for the Stalinist yoke on the shoulders of the entire Russian nation - itself a victim.
Trushnovich knows no rest - even when on "vacation", he uses his trips for the purpose of building alliances with people around Europe and the United States, while delivering lectures on Stalinism and the anti-Stalinist revolutionary movement. Well aware that he is a prime target of the Soviet secret police, Trushnovich nonetheless continues to live dangerously in ally occupied Germany.
Repeated attempts are made on Trushnovich's life by the German-Soviet secret police, and in 1954 their persistence finally pays off. On a spring day in Berlin, Trushnovich is invited to an apartment by an undercover German-Soviet agent, Mr. Glezke, pretending to be a slavophilic anticommunist. There, Dr. Trushnovich is abducted forcefully, and in an unconscious state is transported into the Soviet zone of Berlin, disappearing without a trace.
Dr. Trushnovich is a strong standing example of slavophilic cooperation and patriotism, who sacrificed his life for a Slavic cause. A Slavic patriot, he understood Bolshevism as an anti-Slavic phenomenon, and felt that as a Slav it was his duty to resist it by all means available. Not only did he actively embrace the Russian and Serbian patriotic anti-Bolshevik movements at their very inception, but he became one of the movement's noted theoriticians and inspirations, maintaining a slavophilic orientation. May his great feat inspire all of us.
Appendix:
This plea to the Polish people was written by Dr. Trushnovich, as part of his comprehensive manual on how to create an anticommunist revolt within the Soviet Red Army:
An Appeal to the Polish People
Oh brotherly Polish people! The Soviet occupational army in Germany has revolted. It is no longer Soviet, but Russian and national. It is on its way to liberate Russia. On its banners the National Army is carrying freedom to all people, both Russian and Polish. Centuries we have fought against each other, now has begun the hour of our great brotherhood.
We must come across your land. Or army is disciplined, all criminal elements have been destroyed. Our army is bringing to you freedom and independence. Arise, oh Polish people, destroy the communist regime in your homeland, we shall help you. Turn your army into a national, Polish one. In union with us it shall destroy our mutual enemy. Freedom is indivisible, we must combine mutual powers to win and strengthen it. Do not permit irresponsible elements to disrupt the passage of our army. We must pass, as we are bringing liberation to our motherland. A free Poland and free Russia cannot be enemies. All Russian forces in Poland will merge and leave with us.
Long live free Poland and free Russia!
The Revolutionary Headquarters of the National (Russian) Army.
Source: "Cherez Vooruzhennogo Vosstania k Revolutsii", A. Trushnovich (Posev, 1955)
Dr. Alexander Rudolfovich Trushnovich, Pan-Slavic Patriot and Anticommunist
Dr. Alexander Trushnovich was a Slovenian, born in the Slovenian town of Postoino (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire) in 1893, to a family of railroad workers. He initially found his calling in medicine, and studied in Austria to become a doctor.
In 1914, Trushnovich is forced to enlist into the Austro-Hungarian army. He is sent as a officer to the Eastern front. Trushnovich was ideologically opposed to fighting against the Russians, believing that only the victory of Russia will bring the Slavic peoples national independence. While the Austrian army was preparing to attack, Trushnovich escapes and surrenders to the Russian Army as had many Slavs who shared Trushnovich's slavophilic ideology.
Receiving an official pardon from Tsar Nicholas the Second, Trushnovich is accepted into the Russian Army's First Serbian Volunteer Division. Trushnovich fondly remembers Tsar Nicholas during a troop inspection as being very inspiring to him and his fellow Slavic volunteers.
Trushnovich fights with great distinction, earning the Russian order of St. Anne and the highest Serbian medal, the White Eagle. While lying wounded at a hospital, Trushnovich meets a nurse Zina, whom he marries shortly afterwards.
After the February revolution of 1917, the Serbian division is officially disbanded, and Trushnovich voluntarily joins the Russian Army, serving under General Laurus Kornilov. When the Bolsheviks take power a few months later, General Kornilov sends the trusted Trushnovich to negotiate a union between the newly formed Russian anti-Bolshevik Volunteers Army and the Czechoslovakian Corps, at that time located in Kiev. The leader of the Czechoslovakian corps, General Masarik, refuses Kornilov's offer and suggests Trushnovich join his Czechoslovakian Corps on the spot. Trushnovich adamantly refuses, declaring "With us is God, and the 3,000 strong Volunteers Army!"
In 1919, after suffering typhus, Trushnovich and his family leaves to the town of Zagradno, which had fallen into Italian hands. Thanks to an Italian officer, he is not expelled by the slavophobic Italian powers. His sense of slavophilic duty calling again, the determined Trushnovich leaves his family and voluntarily returns to Russia in order to continue his service in the White Army.
After being surrounded in battle, Trushnovich is taken prisoner by the Reds. The CheKa (Soviet secret police) arrest him and intend to execute him for covering up several of his officer friends as privates (who usually suffered a less severe fate than officers). Several Serbs end up saving Trushnovich from the firing squad, although he continues his tenure in prison (receiving better treatment from the Reds as a former Austro-Hungarian soldier, than his Russian White colleagues).
Trushnovich escapes execution for the second time, once again thanks to his Serbian colleagues. His attempts to return to the White Army are unsuccessful. After the Whites are defeated in 1920, he tries to escape to Romania, but is forced by the Romanians to return to Soviet soil.
The next seven years Trushnovich, with the help of Serbs and Russians, stays in Soviet Russia under a disguised identity, working primarily as a doctor. Thanks to his relatives abroad, through the Polish consul he finally obtains a Yugoslavian passport and returns to Lyubliana, Yugoslavia.
Arriving in Belgrade in 1935, Trushnovich meets with the members of a newly formed Russian patriotic organization, the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (Narodno-Trudovoi Soyuz - NTS). NTS, made up of convicted young Russian anticommunists of a strong slavophilic orientation, welcomes Trushnovich - who's expertise on the Soviet system becomes invaluable to the organization.
Trushnovich continues his medical practice in Yugoslavia, while writing two books, "The Old and New Russia" in Serbian (1937) and "The Cabin on the Intersection" in Russian (1940). In 1941 he joins NTS officially, and in 1942 he is placed in charge of NTS's underground chapters in Nazi occupied Serbia, where he also keeps ties with the underground Serbian nationalist organization "Sbor".
In 1944, in hopes of renewing his fight against Bolshevism, Trushnovich joins the ill-fated anticommunist Russian Liberation Army of General Vlasov. He is sent by Vlasov to arrange a union between the RLA and Serbian general Draza Mihailovich's Chetniks for the purposes of creating a pan-Slavic liberation movement, but on the way is captured and arrested by the French.
Trushnovich is eventually released and attends as a doctor to Russian POW's in displaced person camps. While arranging for much needed medical aid and petitioning for the creation of Russian schools in ally occupied Germany, Trushnovich continues fighting Bolshevism. As a representative of the Hamburg Aid Committee for Orthodox (Christian) Refugees in 1950, he is able to covertly support the anticommunist underground within the red army. Trushnovich also enlists the help of slavophilic German anticommunists, helping create the Free Union of Russo-German Friendship.
Trushnovich fights with a pen as well as with the sword. In 1947 he writes and publishes his third book, "Russia and Slavicism". He becomes a well respected theoretician for slavophilic anticommunists.
In the form of secret booklets and leaflets, Trushnovich's deep, profound articles such as "At the Price of a Feat" ("Tsennoyu Podviga") inspire Russian soldiers and sailors serving in the Red Army to resist Stalinism. Trushnovich also speaks his dismay at the waves of Russophobia permiating several national Slavic anticommunist movements, which penned the blame for the Stalinist yoke on the shoulders of the entire Russian nation - itself a victim.
Trushnovich knows no rest - even when on "vacation", he uses his trips for the purpose of building alliances with people around Europe and the United States, while delivering lectures on Stalinism and the anti-Stalinist revolutionary movement. Well aware that he is a prime target of the Soviet secret police, Trushnovich nonetheless continues to live dangerously in ally occupied Germany.
Repeated attempts are made on Trushnovich's life by the German-Soviet secret police, and in 1954 their persistence finally pays off. On a spring day in Berlin, Trushnovich is invited to an apartment by an undercover German-Soviet agent, Mr. Glezke, pretending to be a slavophilic anticommunist. There, Dr. Trushnovich is abducted forcefully, and in an unconscious state is transported into the Soviet zone of Berlin, disappearing without a trace.
Dr. Trushnovich is a strong standing example of slavophilic cooperation and patriotism, who sacrificed his life for a Slavic cause. A Slavic patriot, he understood Bolshevism as an anti-Slavic phenomenon, and felt that as a Slav it was his duty to resist it by all means available. Not only did he actively embrace the Russian and Serbian patriotic anti-Bolshevik movements at their very inception, but he became one of the movement's noted theoriticians and inspirations, maintaining a slavophilic orientation. May his great feat inspire all of us.
Appendix:
This plea to the Polish people was written by Dr. Trushnovich, as part of his comprehensive manual on how to create an anticommunist revolt within the Soviet Red Army:
An Appeal to the Polish People
Oh brotherly Polish people! The Soviet occupational army in Germany has revolted. It is no longer Soviet, but Russian and national. It is on its way to liberate Russia. On its banners the National Army is carrying freedom to all people, both Russian and Polish. Centuries we have fought against each other, now has begun the hour of our great brotherhood.
We must come across your land. Or army is disciplined, all criminal elements have been destroyed. Our army is bringing to you freedom and independence. Arise, oh Polish people, destroy the communist regime in your homeland, we shall help you. Turn your army into a national, Polish one. In union with us it shall destroy our mutual enemy. Freedom is indivisible, we must combine mutual powers to win and strengthen it. Do not permit irresponsible elements to disrupt the passage of our army. We must pass, as we are bringing liberation to our motherland. A free Poland and free Russia cannot be enemies. All Russian forces in Poland will merge and leave with us.
Long live free Poland and free Russia!
The Revolutionary Headquarters of the National (Russian) Army.
Source: "Cherez Vooruzhennogo Vosstania k Revolutsii", A. Trushnovich (Posev, 1955)