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===World War II===
After the outbreak of the war, the ROVS was virtually paralysed, as the war split the its leadership and membership into two opposing camps
During the war, the ROVS maintained a cautious position of not siding officially with Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union but waiting for the emergence of an independent [[Russian Liberation Army]]. However, some members, acting as interpreters, joined the ranks of the ''[[Wehrmacht]]'' at the early stage of war on the Eastern Front.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/13518046.2014.932630|title = 'Iron Cross of the Wrangel's Army': Russian Emigrants as Interpreters in the Wehrmacht| journal=The Journal of Slavic Military Studies| volume=27| issue=3| pages=430–448|year = 2014|last1 = Beyda|first1 = Oleg|s2cid = 144274571}}</ref> The reason was the ROVS's quasi-ideology, which was in no small way encapsulated in the idea of irreconcilability, which meant fighting against the Soviet power in any way possible.<ref>O. Beyda, ‘“Re-Fighting the Civil War”: Second Lieutenant Mikhail Aleksandrovich Gubanov’. ''Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas'', Vol. 66, No. 2, 2018, pp. 255, 265.</ref>
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