"cursed soldiers" (also known as "doomed soldiers", "accursed soldiers", or "damned soldiers"; Polish: żołnierze wyklęci) or "indomitable soldiers" (Polish:...
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Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953) (section Polish National Day of Remembrance of the "cursed soldiers")
liberated hundreds of political prisoners. They became known as the "cursed soldiers" of the Polish underground, and most were eventually captured or killed...
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1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW (redirect from 1946 massacre of Belarusians by the Polish Cursed soldiers)
documents and testimonies dating back to the 1949 show trial of Polish cursed soldiers: Captain Romuald Rajs of the PAS Special Forces, and his co-conspirator...
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resistance movement fought until they were defeated in 1962/68. Polish "cursed soldiers" fought a guerrilla war until they were defeated in 1963. The Bulgarian...
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Japanese holdout (redirect from Last Japanese soldier)
(Japanese: 残留日本兵, romanized: zanryū nipponhei, lit. 'remaining Japanese soldiers') were soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and Imperial Japanese Navy...
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former Armia Krajowa and Narodowe Siły Zbrojne soldiers, which ended in the late 1950s (see cursed soldiers), and the non-violent, civil resistance struggle...
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Polish and Soviet partisans. Cursed soldiers continued to oppose the Soviets long after the war. The last cursed soldier – member of the militant anti-communist...
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Witold Pilecki (category Cursed soldiers killed in action)
defeat and capitulated. Włodarkiewicz and Pilecki were among the many soldiers who did not follow the order of Commander-in-Chief General Edward Śmigły-Rydz...
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Stanisław Kasznica (category Cursed soldiers killed in action)
Stanisław Józef Bronisław Kasznica (July 25, 1908 – May 12, 1948) was the last commander of the National Armed Forces (NSZ), an anti-communist, and anti-Nazi...
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Ewa Kurek (section Cursed Soldiers)
Kielce [pl]. In 1995, Kurek published Zaporczycy, 1943-1949 about the "cursed soldiers". The family of one of the subjects objected to the accuracy of his...
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