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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Kierownictwo Walki Konspiracyjnej, short KWK) was one of the departments of the Armia Krajowa Headquarters created in Poland in 1942 during World War II. Its...
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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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  • The Polish People's Army (PAL) (Polska Armia Ludowa) was an underground leftist military organization in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. It was...
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    to that, there were only monuments to the Red Army soldiers and the Armia Ludowa soldiers. The role of the latter in the city fights in 1944 was exaggerated...
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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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  • 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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    controlling body of the Delegation and the Headquarters of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa). On 9 January 1944 it was turned into a Council of National Unity...
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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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    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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    It was created in 1940 as a joint initiative of the Headquarters of the Armia Krajowa and the Delegate's Office. It was a kind of shadow administration...
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    the structures of the Polish Underground State and its military arm, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) resistance. Abroad, under the authority of the government-in-exile...
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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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    collaborators. Kedyw was created on January 22, 1943, from two pre-existing Armia Krajowa organisations: Związek Odwetu (Association of Retaliation), and...
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    Kraków area. In July 1941 he became deputy commander of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa or "AK"), and in March 1943 gained appointment as its commander...
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    November 1939 until 14 February 1942, when it was renamed into Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK). Union of Armed Struggle was created from an earlier organization...
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    subordinated its activities to the High Command of the Armia Krajowa. In return the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) began providing ŻOB with weapons and training...
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    the OW ZJ and its nemesis, the communist NKVD-controlled Gwardia Ludowa/Armia Ludowa, were the two major factions of Polish resistance that did not recognise...
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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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    net of secret military colleges in most major cities. Until 1944, most of Armia Krajowa regiments had their military schools for Non-commissioned officers...
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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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    Albanian Partisans Afghan Mujahideen Armenian irregular units Armia Krajowa Armia Ludowa Bataliony Chłopskie 2022–2023 Belarusian and Russian partisan...
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