• The Polish People's Army (PAL) (Polska Armia Ludowa) was an underground leftist military organization in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. It...
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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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    Poland (redirect from Rzeczpospolita Polska)
    Constitution on 19 February 1947. The Polish People's Republic (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa) was officially proclaimed in 1952. In 1956, after the death...
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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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    acquiring weapons for the left-wing partisan Polish People's Army PAL (Polska Armia Ludowa PAL). He used his mother's maiden name, Ignacy Popow. He was hiding...
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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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    People's Army (Polish Armia Ludowa or AL), backed by the Soviet Union and established by the Polish Workers' Party (Polish Polska Partia Robotnicza or...
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    Polish People's Party (1945–49) Polish People's Republic (Polish: Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa; PRL) - 1944 to 1952 (unofficially), 1952 to 1989 (officially)...
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    Fighting Poland. History of the Underground State. Ani Polska, Ani Robotnicza PPR i Gwardia (Armia) Ludowa , Warsaw 2015, vol. 11, p. 46. Krzysztof Halicki...
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  • Czesław Gęborski (category Armia Ludowa members)
    district of Ruda Śląska. In 1943 he was able to escape and join the Armia Ludowa communist resistance organization. Arrested again in 1944 he was bound...
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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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    Research [pl]. Gwardia Ludowa (1987) Konspiracja pomorska 1939-1947: leksykon (1993) Powstanie Warszawskie 1944 (1994) Armia Krajowa (1994, 1996) Wacław...
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    obierano. Polska: Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza. pp. 138–143. Spórna (2003). Słownik władców Polski i pretendentów do tronu polskiego. Polska: Zielona...
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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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    during the war founder of the underground organization Polska Ludowa; co-founder of the Polska Partia Robotnicza; arrested by Gestapo on 22 October 1942...
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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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    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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    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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  • high concentration of resistance including Gwardia Ludowa (GL), Bataliony Chłopskie (BCh), and Armia Krajowa (AK) was possible only due to strong material...
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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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    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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    30. became an emblem of two political parties: Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna) and General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland (Algemejner...
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  • Republic in 1989 and changing the name of the state: Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa to Rzeczpospolita Polska, the oath was changed, esp. the reference to "socialist...
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    placed under command of General Zygmunt Berling and later it merged with Armia Ludowa, the communist underground force in Poland. The ZPP was officially established...
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  • Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie), Home Army (Armia Krajowa), and communist People's Guard (Gwardia Ludowa) attempted to impede pacification and displacement...
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  • On May 21, 1945, a unit of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK), led by Colonel Edward Wasilewski, attacked a Soviet NKVD camp located in Rembertów...
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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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    Polish forces from the 8th and 13th Oszmiana Brigade of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) under the command of Adam Walczak engaged units of the Lithuanian...
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    joined the short lived left wing Polish People's Independent Action (Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa, PLAN), a resistance group. As its member he...
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    actively supported Polish partisans, hosting an outpost of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) within the village. On March 7, 1944, an eight-person Home...
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