Anti-Soviet partisans
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Polish anti-communist partisans in 1947. Photograph from the Solidarność Walcząca archives.
Anti-Soviet partisans may refer to various resistance movements that opposed the Soviet Union and its satellite states at various periods during the 20th century, between the Russian Revolution (1917) and the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991).
During the Russian Civil War and Interwar period
- Basmachi movement
- Green armies
- August Uprising
- Forest Guerrillas
- Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine
- Organizations of the White movement in the 1920s–1930s:
During the Second World War and its aftermath
- Armata Neagră (Moldovan SSR)
- Chechen anti-communist resistance movement (1940–1944)
- Chetniks (Kingdom of Yugoslavia/Serbia)
- Cursed soldiers (Poland)
- Goryani (Bulgaria)
- Guerrilla war in the Baltic states
- Organisations formed by Nazi Germany
- GULAG Operation (Komi ASSR)
- Black Cats (Byelorussian SSR)
- Crusaders (Independent State of Croatia)
- Russian People's Liberation Army (Russian SFSR)
- Werwolf (Nazi Germany)
- Anti-Soviet resistance in Belarus (1944–1950s)
- Polish anti-communist resistance movement (1944–1953)
- Republic of Rossony[1]
- Romanian anti-communist resistance movement (1947–1962)
- Ukrainian anti-Soviet resistance
During the Cold War
- Afghan mujahideen (DR Afghanistan)
- Operation Gladio (NATO member states)
- Bund Deutscher Jugend (West Germany)
- Counter-Guerrilla (Turkey)
- Informationsbyrån (Sweden)
- Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit (West Germany)
- Nihtilä-Haahti Plan (Finland)
- Operation Washtub (United States–Alaska Territory)
- Projekt-26 (Switzerland)
- Propaganda Due (Italy)
- SDRA8 and STC/Mob (Belgium)
- Study and Training Group for Military Reconnaissance (West Germany)
See also
- Anti-communism
- Decommunization
- Operation Priboi
- Partisan (military)
- Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union
- Predictions of the collapse of the Soviet Union
- Political repression in the Soviet Union
- Red Scare and Red Terror
- Resistance during World War II
- Russian war crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Soviet Empire
- Soviet espionage in the United States
- Wars of national liberation
- White émigré
References
- ^ The People's Avengers: Soviet Partisans, Stalinist Society and the Politics of Resistance, 1941-1944. University of Michigan. 1994.
- ^ Pomiecko, Aleksandra (2018). Belarusian Transnational Networks and Armed Conflict, 1921-1956 (PDF) (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). University of Toronto. Retrieved 26 August 2024.