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Soviet partisans were members of resistance movements that fought a guerrilla war against Axis forces during World War II in the Soviet Union, the previously Soviet-occupied territories of interwar Poland in 1941–45 and eastern Finland. The activity emerged after Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa was launched from mid-1941 on.
Stefan Kubiak (25 August 1923 – 28 November 1963), also known as Hồ Chí Toán (nom de guerre "Mathematician"), was a Polish soldier who became a decorated captain in the People's Army of Vietnam. A Soviet partisan near the end of World War II, Kubiak was eventually drafted into the French Foreign Legion and sent to fight against the ...
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The badge of the Red Army also served as the emblem for the CHPM [citation needed]. The Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement (Russian: Центральный штаб партизанского движения (ЦШПД), romanized: Tsentral'nyj shtab partizanskovo dvizheniya (TsShPD)) was the central organ of military control of the Soviet partisans, resistance movements who fought ...
The Partisan groups were formed by Soviet and Communist bodies on German-occupied territories and in the Soviet rear. By objective and formation, the partisan groups could be of the special kind ( NKVD ), or one of several other groups operating on BSSR territory, mostly in 1943—1944, but also in 1942. [ 1 ]
Soviet partisan detachment (1941—1944) (Russian: партизанский отряд; Belarusian: партызанскі атрад), was the main organisational form of the Soviet partisan units. Numerical and structural complement of the partisan detachment varied, with usual number of about 100 to several hundred personnel, organised in ...
Unlike Soviet partisans elsewhere, they lacked continuously operating headquarters behind the enemy lines and often stayed there for just 15–20 days at a time. [2] Their goals inside Finnish borders were to destroy military communications, disrupt economic activity of the Finnish population, and cause panic and uncertainty.
Soviet partisans during World War II, especially those active in Belarus, effectively harassed German troops and significantly hampered their operations in the region. As a result, Soviet authority was re-established deep inside the German-held territories. In some areas partisan collective farms raised crops and livestock to produce food ...