Talk:Kalmykian Cavalry Corps

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Questionable Claims[edit]

"Unlike most other national "volunteer" divisions, the Kalmykian Cavalry Corps incorporated genuine volunteers willing to fight together with Germans. The other national divisions relied upon recruits from POW camps.[2] More Kalmyks fought in the Kalmykian Cavalry Corps than in comparable units of the Soviet army."

This passage looks like POV to me. The 110th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union) alone had more Kalmyks serving than the Kalmykian Cavalry Corps. While the first sentence basically accuses all Soviet collaborationists of acting under duress which is most certainly not true.--Catlemur (talk) 22:17, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

From Jeffrey Cole's Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia pg 217 "In contrast, more than 20,000 Kalmyks served in the Red Army during World War II"; Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia, ed. Cynthia J. Buckley, Blair A. Ruble, Erin Trouth Hofman (2008) "In total... 23,540 Kalmyks fought in the Soviet military". Likewise, ultranationalist groups such as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) were notorious for their willing collaboration with the Germans during World War II. ("Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War Goals, Expectations, Practices" "Ukrainians in the General Government were in a pro-German mood at the time... Ukrainians (but not Poles) would get a partial recognation by the creation of the SS Galicia Division— and the Ukrainians in the GG rejoyced: there were more than 80,000 volunteers, though the division would not accpet more than about 15,000") I'm pulling this claim. Midnight-Blue766 (talk) 12:55, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]