Anti-Soviet partisans

Anti-Soviet guerrilla movements

Polish anti-communist partisans in 1947.

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.

During 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:
  • Brotherhood of Russian Truth
  • Russian All-Military Union

During Second World War and its aftermath

• Chechen rebels
• Cursed soldiers (Poland)
• Guerrilla war in the Baltic states
  • Latvian partisans
  • Lithuanian partisans
  • Estonian partisans
• Goryani (Bulgaria)
• Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953)
• Romanian anti-communist resistance movement
• Republic of Rossony^[1]
• Armata Neagră (Moldova)
• Anti-Soviet resistance in Belarus (1944–1950s) [ru]
  • Belarusian People's Partisans [ru]^[2]
• Ukrainian anti-Soviet resistance
• Organisations formed by Nazi Germany
  • GULAG Operation
  • Black Cats (Belarus)
  • Crusaders (Croatia)
  • Russian People's Liberation Army
  • Werwolf (Germany)

During the Cold War

• Afghan Mujahideen
• NATO Operation Gladio

See also

• Anti-communism
• Eastern European anti-Communist insurgencies
• Operation Priboi
• Partisan (military)
• Resistance during World War II

References

1. The People's Avengers: Soviet Partisans, Stalinist Society and the Politics of Resistance, 1941-1944. University of Michigan. 1994.
2. Pomiecko, Aleksandra (2018). Belarusian Transnational Networks and Armed Conflict, 1921-1956 (PDF) (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). University of Toronto. Retrieved 26 August 2024.