Савез совјетских патриота- антифашистичка организација руских емиграната у Србији 1941-1945
Union Of Soviet Patriots - Antifascist Organization Of Russian Emigrants In Serbia 1941-1945

Summary/Abstract: Founding group of USP (Union of Soviet Patriots) began work in the autumn of winter 1941/42, however the beginning of active work must be connected with the end of 1942 - beginning of 1943. The organization was headed by number 1- Dr V. Lebedev („Levicki“), number 2 - F. Vistoropski („Feca“), number 3- engineer I. Odishelidze („Aliko“). Each member of the group formed new groups marking them by numbers, the first two numbers were his own number in the organization and the third number was the one he chose. Total number of active members was circa 150 comrades. Activities of USP were restricted to: helping the Partisans and working for national liberation, transferring people to the forests, providing clothes and all necessary for those Russian prisoners of war who wanted to escape to the forest, collecting money and medicine, doing propaganda work against joining the Russian Corpus and campaigning against signing up for work in Germany especially among the young people. Activities were either based on personal connections or by coordinating connections of the whole organization with the National Liberation Movement (NLM). In spring-autumn of 1944 several prominent members of the USP were arrested among them being I. Odishelidze, V. Lebedev and others but they were freed. However, hard evidence was found against two of the members F. Vistoropski and K. Sineljnikov and they were sent to the death camps. The arrests were a result of betrayal that took place while they were recruiting and transferring to the forest some Russian volunteers from the ranks of emigrants and prisoners of war.

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