He was posted as a Norwegian diplomat to the Soviet Union and for some time also managed British diplomatic affairs there. He first came to international prominence as a close collaborator of the explorer Fridtjof Nansen, and through organising humanitarian relief during the Russian famine of 1921 in Povolzhye. Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who nominally headed the government of Norway during the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II. The term “quisling” has become a byword for “collaborator” or “traitor” in several languages. Photo courtesy National Archives of Norway, Wikimedia Commons
Norwegian Minister President Vidkun Quisling in civilian clothes.
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