Vasily Fedorovich Malyshkin (Russian: Василий Фёдорович Малышкин; 26 December 1896 – 1 August 1946) was a Soviet major general during World War II.

Following his capture during Operation Typhoon he defected to Nazi Germany becoming a leading member and propagandist for the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR).

In the aftermath of the German defeat he was captured by the American army, which in turn transferred him to the Soviet Union where he was executed for treason.

[1] On 9 August 1938, Malyshkin was arrested by the NKVD, branded as an enemy of the people and accused of being a spy and a member of an anti–Soviet conspiracy.

His accusers the commander of the Transbaikal Military District Mikhail Velikanov and his deputy Elkys had already been executed and therefore a cross-examination could not be performed.

In December, he met Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt who aided in his transfer to a central propaganda bureau in Berlin where he collaborated with Andrey Vlasov.

Together they created the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), an Axis sponsored Russian anti-communist organization intent on overthrowing the regime of Joseph Stalin.

On 24 January 1943, Malyshkin passed secret information on the Soviet Union's prewar military plans regarding Germany to a German foreign ministry official.

In March, he became the editor of the Zarya newspaper and organized the first Anti-Bolshevik Congress of former Red Army Soldiers in Dabendorf.