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During the night of 21–22 January 1940, in the Soviet-occupied Podolian town of Czortków, the Czortków Uprising started; it was the first Polish uprising during World War II. Anti-Soviet Poles, most of them teenagers from local high schools, stormed the local Red Army barracks and a prison, in order to release Polish soldiers kept there.
People's Guard WRN (Polish: Gwardia Ludowa WRN; GL WRN) and from May 1944 the Military Units of the Uprising Emergency of Socialists (Polish: Oddziały Wojskowe Pogotowia Powstańczego Socjalistów; OW PPS) [1] was a military branch of underground Polish Socialist Party WRN, and part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II.
Gwardia Ludowa (the People's Guard) and Armia Ludowa (the People's Army) Związek Organizacji Wojskowej, at Auschwitz concentration camp; Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Organisation), Jewish resistance movement that led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943
The People's Guard (GL; Polish: Gwardia Ludowa; Polish pronunciation: [ˈɡvardja luˈdɔva]) was a communist partisan force of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) active in Occupied Poland during World War II from 1942 to 1944. The Gwardia Ludowa was established with sponsorship from the Soviet Union to support the Red Army and Polish communists ...
A resistance movement is an organized group of people that tries to resist the government or an occupying power, ... (the People's Guard) and Armia Ludowa ...
The basic organizational unit was the platoon, numbering 35–50 people, with an unmobilized skeleton version of 16–25; in February 1944, the Home Army had 6,287 regular and 2,613 skeleton platoons operational. [5] Such numbers made the Home Army not only the largest Polish resistance movement, but one of the two largest in World War II Europe.
The Afghan resistance movement bringing the fight to the Taliban’s doorstep ... as two armed young men guard the now 34-year-old Massoud’s quarters in a ... The people will decide on a much ...
People's Army (Poland) People's Guard for Freedom, Equality, and Independence; Polish People's Army (1943–1945) Polish Workers' Party; Political dissidence in the Empire of Japan; Ponzán group; Potápky; Pro-German resistance movement in Finland