Crusade Against Communism - The Life of Pyotr Krasnov, from Don Ataman to Nazi Collaborator

In June 1941, a seventy-one-year-old Russian general sitting in a Berlin apartment issued a proclamation calling on Cossacks everywhere to join the German Wehrmacht — framing the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union as a crusade against communism and Jewry. The man who issued that proclamation, Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov, had spent twenty years in exile engineering exactly this moment. That he was wr...