Boris Smyslovsky, an anti-communist former Russian general whose World War II unit fought with Hitler's troops against the Red Army, has died at age 91.

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Maj. Gen. Smyslovsky, who then called himself Arthur Holmston, led a 6,000-man contingent known as the First Russian National Army of the German Wehrmacht.At the end of World War II, he and 500 remaining soldiers managed to reach neutral Liechtenstein.

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