Cursed soldiers

Cursed soldiers continued to oppose the Soviets long after the war.

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Polish partisans known as the "Cursed soldiers" fought until eradicated in 1963.

A similar fate awaited the Cursed soldiers.

Even at this time however, some partisans remained in the countryside, unwilling or simply unable to rejoin the community; they became known as the cursed soldiers.

Anti-communist resistance in Poland (cursed soldiers)

The members of NSZ, as other cursed soldiers, were persecuted in the Stalinist period after the war.

Cursed soldiers (Poland)

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Subsequently he returned to the area of Lublin, and joined the militant anti-communist resistance in Poland, colloquially known as the cursed soldiers.

In the first post-war years, he was among the military fighting the Polish anti-communist guerrillas ("cursed soldiers") in the Świętokrzyskie region.

Some historians argue that Griffin soldiers were treated much more harshly than even the Armia Krajowa and the cursed soldiers members.

They were known as the "Cursed soldiers" of the Polish underground, and they were eventually captured or killed by security services and special assassination squads.

On September 9, 1945, the city was briefly seized by the Cursed soldiers, who broke into a local prison, releasing a number of Home Army soldiers.

It was the biggest battle in the history of the Cursed soldiers organization - National Military Alliance (NZW).

The events of late 1940s amounted to a full-scale civil war according to some historians, especially in the eastern and central parts of the country (see: the Cursed soldiers).

Information collected during questioning of the "cursed soldiers" who had revealed themselves led to a later round of arrests and repression, including of those who stayed in hiding.

Many AK soldiers continued fight after World War II in anti-Soviet Polish underground, known as the cursed soldiers.

Until 1946 Soviet forces fought against the Polish independence movement, and some former AK and NSZ continued to fight as Cursed soldiers well into 1956.

That started a partisan war between Polish Communists supported by the Red Army and NKVD and Polish underground called Cursed soldiers.

Różański was personally involved in torturing and maiming dozens of opponents of the Polish puppet government; including anti-communist activists, as well as other, more moderate communists, and Cursed soldiers.

Subsequently, over the period of the next few years, the Soviets and Polish communists would work to successfully eradicate the remains of the anti-Soviet Polish underground, known as the cursed soldiers.

The so-called "Cursed soldiers" of the anti-communist resistance, who opposed the new occupiers and attacked the Stalinist strongholds, were eventually hunted down by MBP security services and assassination squads.

At one point one of the sub-commanders in Broński's group was Józef Franczak who later would become the last of the "Cursed soldiers" to remain in the underground, fighting communist authorities until 1963.

Died: Józef Franczak, 45, Polish resistance fighter, last of the "cursed soldiers" (killed during the ZOMO siege of a barn in Majdan Kozic Górnych)