The Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) was a Russian organization formed by both military and civilian anti-communists. It stood united with several Ukrainian and other ethnic forces which were also anti-communist. The committee was founded in Prague with the encouragement and sponsorship of Germany on November 14, 1944. Amongst the committee’s stated goals were:
‘The overthrow of Stalin’s tyranny, the liberation of the peoples of Russia from the Bolshevik system, and the restitution of those rights to the peoples of Russia which they fought for and won in the people’s revolution of 1917’
‘The discontinuation of the war and an honorable peace with Germany’
The goal of the committee was to free Russia from communism and dethrone its leader Joseph Stalin. This would be possible through the creation of an independent army, closely allied with Germany, which would liberate Russia.
