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    The People's Army (AL; Polish: Armia Ludowa; [ˈar.mʲja luˈdɔ.va]) was a communist partisan force of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) active in Occupied...
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    government-in-exile. The Gwardia Ludowa was incorporated into the larger Armia Ludowa in January 1944. The Gwardia Ludowa was created on 6 January 1942 with...
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    refused to join the Home Army was the pro-Soviet, communist People's Army (Armia Ludowa), which numbered 30,000 people at its height in 1944. Home Army ranks...
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    including their military organizations such as the Gwardia Ludowa (GL) and the Armia Ludowa (AL). After the war, former NSZ members were persecuted by...
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    Organisation Armia Ludowa Gwardia Ludowa Polish forces in the West Polish forces in the East Anders' Army First Polish Army (1944–1945) Armia Krajowa "Raport:...
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    Armed Forces and the pro-Soviet and communist People's Army (Polish Armia Ludowa or AL), backed by the Soviet Union and established by the Polish Workers'...
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    the non-communist resistance movements, while the communist movement (Armia Ludowa) was emphasized as being of primary importance; in fact, the opposite...
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    Stanisław Jerzy Lec (category Armia Ludowa members)
    within the communist formations of Polish resistance (the Gwardia Ludowa and the Armia Ludowa), and eventually served in regular units of Polish People's Army...
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  • Soviet-affiliated and controlled groups, namely Gwardia Ludowa, later transformed into Armia Ludowa, which while often described as parts of the Polish resistance...
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    (Polish Underground State) Anti-Fascist Bloc Armia Krajowa Armia Ludowa Bataliony Chłopskie Gwardia Ludowa Kampfgruppe Auschwitz Narodowe Siły Zbrojne...
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    (Polish Underground State) Anti-Fascist Bloc Armia Krajowa Armia Ludowa Bataliony Chłopskie Gwardia Ludowa Kampfgruppe Auschwitz Narodowe Siły Zbrojne...
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    Poland, elements of BCh started to cooperate with the communist-backed Armia Ludowa, while the majority remained loyal to the Polish government. However...
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  • subordinated to ZWZ (name changed to Armia Krajowa (AK) in 1942) with a degree of autonomy. In 1944 Gwardia Ludowa WRN numbered about 42,000 people. It...
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    increasing extent) becoming involved in actions against the Soviets. The Armia Ludowa, a Soviet proxy fighting force was another resistance group that was...
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    March 2008. "Armia Ludowa". Encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2006. "Armia Krajowa". Encyklopedia...
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    (Polish Underground State) Anti-Fascist Bloc Armia Krajowa Armia Ludowa Bataliony Chłopskie Gwardia Ludowa Kampfgruppe Auschwitz Narodowe Siły Zbrojne...
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    and the commanders of the Polish resistance organizations of Armia Krajowa and Armia Ludowa. On 22 December 1942 he and two accomplices attacked a café...
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    PPR established a partisan military organization Gwardia Ludowa, later renamed Armia Ludowa. In November 1943, Władysław Gomułka became secretary (chief...
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    Adolf Berman (category Armia Ludowa members)
    Adolf Avraham Berman (Hebrew: אדולף אברהם ברמן‎; 17 October 1906 – 3 February 1978) was a Polish-Israeli activist and communist politician. Born in Warsaw...
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  • USSR Polish Workers' Party and Union of Polish Patriots Armia Ludowa (People's Army) Gwardia Ludowa (People's Guard) Polish Armed Forces in the East Jewish...
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    Stefan Rowecki (category Recipients of the Armia Krajowa Cross)
    – 2 August 1944) was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in prison on the personal order...
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  • Stanisław Wyganowski (category Armia Ludowa members)
    Stanisław Wyganowski (7 December 1919 – 13 October 2017) was a politician, economist and urban planner. From 1990 to 1994, he was the mayor of Warsaw,...
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    Stefan Kubiak (category Armia Ludowa members)
    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...
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    in a gas chamber." In mid-1944, Edelman, as a member of the leftist Armia Ludowa (People's Army), participated in the citywide Warsaw Uprising, when Polish...
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    Albanian Partisans Afghan Mujahideen Armenian irregular units Armia Krajowa Armia Ludowa Bataliony Chłopskie 2022–2023 Belarusian and Russian partisan...
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    Polish Legions (Napoleonic period) Polish Military Organisation Armia Ludowa Gwardia Ludowa Polish forces in the West Polish forces in the East Anders' Army...
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  • organisation of 22 Arab states Alternative List, a Swiss political party Armia Ludowa (People's Army), the Soviet-backed Polish army in World War II Assembleia...
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    (Polish Underground State) Anti-Fascist Bloc Armia Krajowa Armia Ludowa Bataliony Chłopskie Gwardia Ludowa Kampfgruppe Auschwitz Narodowe Siły Zbrojne...
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  • Maria Gurowska (category Armia Ludowa members)
    tutor, trader and glove maker. From 1943 on, she was a member of Gwardia Ludowa and communist Polish Workers' Party, which was under direct control of Joseph...
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    Franciszek Jóźwiak (category Gwardia Ludowa members)
    becoming the commander of its paramilitary wings the Gwardia Ludowa and the Armia Ludowa, and participating in the Soviet partisans in Poland. Jóźwiak...
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