Anti-communist insurgencies in Central and Eastern Europe

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Anti-communist insurgencies continued in Central and Eastern Europe after the end of World War II. They were suppressed by the Soviet Union and its satellite states. Prominent movements include:

• The Ukrainian Insurgent Army fought until they were defeated in 1956;
• The anti-Soviet Hungarian Revolution took place in 1956. Unlike the other movements given here, it was aimed against the domination of the Soviet Union, but not against the ideas of Socialism and Communism; Hungarian Communists were among the leaders of the revolution, and Béla Király, who commanded the National Guard in the revolution, described it as being held by the working class and put emphasis on the revolutionary workers' councils.^[1]
• Baltic partisans known as the "Forest Brothers" fought until they were defeated in the early 1960s
• Romanian anti-communist resistance movement fought until they were defeated in 1962/68
• Polish "cursed soldiers" fought until they were defeated in 1963
• The Bulgarian "Goryani" fought until they were defeated in the early 1960s
• Croatian ultra-nationalist insurgents known as "Crusaders" fought until they were defeated in the early 1950s
• Chetniks fought until eradicated in the early 1950s.
• Belarusian Black Cats fought until they were defeated in the early 1950s;
• In Russia, former members of the Kaminski Brigade, a collaborationist militia that was later reorganized into an SS unit, and supporters of the so-called "Lokot Autonomy" reorganized RONA as a partisan movement and fought until 1951.^[2][3]