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before a portrait of Grand Duke Nikolai Romanoff ]] Aside from anti-communism, ROVS did not have an official political orientation, somewhat adhering to the old Russian military dictum which said "The Army is outside of politics" (in Russian "Армия вне политики"), believing that the political orientation of Russia cannot be predetermined by emigres living outside of its borders (the philosophy of "non-predetermination" or in Russian "непредрешенчество"). However, most of its members had strong Monarchist sympathies of varying flavors: constitutional vs. autocratic, Romanoff vs. non-Romanoff oriented. ROVS, along with other similar Russian emigre organizations, became a prime target for the Soviet OGPU . The Soviet secret police set up a fake anti-communist monarchist organization TREST which was successfully used to confuse and later demoralize ROVS. They also successfully instituted a secret provocational organization within ROVS known as the " Inner Line " (in Russian "Внутренная Линия"), masquerading as a patriotic Russian intelligence organization. By the time the "Inner Line" was exposed by the Russian emigre organization NTS , two of ROVS's leaders, General Alexander Kutepov and General Evgenii Miller (both of whom failed to heed NTS's warnings), were kidnapped and taken by force to the USSR in 1930 and 1937 respectively. ROVS maintained a cautious position during the Second World War, not siding officially with Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, but waiting for the emergence of an independent Russian Liberation Army . General Anton Turkul of ROVS offered his "boyevaya gruppa" ("fighting group") to General Andrei Vlasov at the close of the war, but the war ended soon afterwards. ROVS continued to be active into the 1990's, having evolved into an organization that was principally concerned with the historical preservation of the pre-communist and anti-communist Russian military tradition. In ROVS's possession are a significant number of Russian imperial and White Army battle flags and standards, which are meant to be returned to Russia when "a national Russian army" is once again in existence. In the mid 1990's a split emerged within ROVS on whether to continue the organization's existence. In 2000, Vladimir Vishnevsky, a U.S. resident and the ROVS chairman at that time, requested a vote on this question. The vast majority of members voted for the dissolution of ROVS. Vishnevsky died of cancer in that same year, but ROVS members, following the overwhelming poll results disolved the organization. A handful of members, however, rejected this turn of events. This faction, primarily based in Russia and currently headed by Igor Ivanov, claims that ROVS was not disolved and named Nikolai Feodorov (d. 2003), a U.S. resident and Russian Civil War veteran, an honorary chairman of their organization. LIST OF ROVS CHAIRMEN/COMMANDERS 1924-1928 General Pyotr Wrangel (as the commander of the Russian Army ) 1924-1929 Grand Duke General Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (as the supreme commander of all Russian forces, in concurrance with General Wrangel) 1929-1930 General Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov 1930-1937 General Evgenii Karlovich Miller 1937-1938 General Feodor Feodorovich Abramov 1938-1957 General Alexei Petrovich Arkhangelsky 1957-1967 General Alexei Alexandrovich Von Lampe 1967-1979 General Vladimir Grigorievich Zharzhevsky 1979-1983 Captain Vladimir Petrovich Osipov 1983-1984 Starshina Vladimir Ivanovich Diakov 1984-1986 Lieutenant Peter Alekseevich Kalenichenko 1986-1988 Captain Boris Mihailovich Ivanov 1988-1988 Sotnik Nikita Ivanovich Iovich 1988-1989 Lieutenant Vladimir Vladimirovich Granitov 1989-2000 Captain Vladimir Nikolaevich Butkov 2000-2000 Lieutenant Vladimir Aleksandrovich Vishnevsky
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