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Russian service subdivisions (Russian Pусские подразделения обслуживания) - auxiliary propaganda units of the Russian Liberation Army during the Second World War.

After the establishment of the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) In 1943, the formation of the so- Russian service subdivisions, which were assigned to the staff of each Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions on the eastern front (they were called the ROA interceptors), as well as to all the Red Army camps and POW camps under the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), not only occupied the USSR, but also in other European countries occupied by the Germans. In total, they numbered about 3.6 thousand. Soldiers in about 170 subdivisions. Each such subdivision consisted of an officer, 4 NCOs, and 20 serial ROAs. The composition of the ROA interceptors was 5 officers and 15 NCOs and the ROA. According to German data within the 18th Army, operating on the Leningrad direction, there were 25 Russian service subdivisions under the command of Capt. Gonczarowa, including in the staff of the 30th Infantry Division of the Capt. Tishin, 21st Division of Anti-Aircraft Division Capt. Bielaya, 121th Infantry Division Capt. Gorbachevich, 12th Infantry Division of the division of Kodakov, 215th Infantry Division sub division of Garagaj, 21st Infantry Division subcommittee of Browczenko. Russian service personnel were trained at the ROA Propaganda School in Dabendorf, Germany. Their task was to lead anti-Soviet and pro-German propaganda among prisoners of war. Subordinates to front-line units were conducting propaganda activities directed at Red Army troops, aiming to desert their soldiers on the German side of the front. Russian service subordinates played an important role in the propaganda campaign under the nickname "Silver Belt" which was conducted before the offensive of German troops in the Kursk region under the codename "Zitadelle". In December 1943 the chief inspector of Russian service subdivisions was appointed Major General Ivan A. Blagowenski. The Russian service subdivisions in the West were subjected to General Vasily F. Malyszkin. Bibliography

Aleksandr W. Okorokow, Special Front: German Propaganda on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, 2007

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