Bronislav Kaminski
Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski was a collaborationist and the commander of the S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A. , an antipartisan formation made up of people from the socalled Lokot Autonomy territory in the Nazi Germany occupied areas of Russia, which was later incorporated into the WaffenSS as the S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A.. Older publications mistakenly give his first name as Mieczyslaw.
Bronislav Kaminski was born in Vitebsk Governorate, in the Russian Empire, now in Polatsk Raion, Belarus. His father was a Polish national of Russian descent and his mother was German. Kaminski considered himself a Russian. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University then served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. After demobilization he returned to the Institute, and after graduation worked at a chemical plant. In 1935 he was expelled from the Soviet Union Communist Party, and in 1937 during the Great Purge he was arrested for criticising Stalins policy of farm collectivisation, as well as working with Germans and Poles. He was accused of belonging to a counterrevolutionary group. In 1941 he was released from prison and settled in Bryask, where he obtained a position as an engineer in the local distillery.
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