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    "cursed soldiers" (also known as "doomed soldiers", "accursed soldiers", or "damned soldiers"; Polish: żołnierze wyklęci) or "indomitable soldiers" (Polish:...
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    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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  • resistance movement fought until they were defeated in 1962/68 Polish "cursed soldiers" fought until they were defeated in 1963 The Bulgarian "Goryani" fought...
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  • (Japanese: 残留日本兵, romanized: Zanryū nipponhei, lit. 'remaining Japanese soldiers') were soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    erased, and tablets containing the names of battles fought by the cursed soldiers were added. In August 2022 ground works started on rebuilding the Saxon...
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  • Târgoviște, where they were locked in an office and later arrested by soldiers from a local army garrison. As the new authorities heard the news of their...
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    Józef Franczak (category Cursed soldiers killed in action)
    1918 – 21 October 1963) was a soldier of the Polish Army, Armia Krajowa World War II resistance, and last of the cursed soldiers – members of the militant...
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  • Day (Dzień Nauki Polskiej), established in 2020 1 March - National Cursed Soldiers Remembrance Day (Narodowy Dzień Pamięci „Żołnierzy Wyklętych”), established...
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    like other "cursed soldiers", and their families were persecuted during the postwar Stalinist period. In the fall of 1946, 100-200 soldiers of an NSZ unit...
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  • anti-Communist resistance in Poland, including activities of the "Cursed soldiers" as well as all organizations which continued their armed struggle...
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    Guerrillas Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine Chechen rebels Cursed soldiers (Poland) Guerrilla war in the Baltic states Latvian partisans Lithuanian...
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    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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  • – Ukraine Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953) (Polish) Cursed soldiers (Polish) Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the...
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    anti-Communist resistance, the so-called Cursed soldiers. Their target was a Communist secret services prison, where soldiers of the Home Army, National Armed...
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    after the war. Between 1944 and 1946, soldiers of the anti-communist armed groups, known as the cursed soldiers, made a series of attacks on communist...
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  • functionaries of the new Stalinist regime, assassinated by the so-called cursed soldiers of the anti-communist underground due to their political loyalties...
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    Similar anti-Soviet resistance groups, also known as Forest Brothers and cursed soldiers, fought against Soviet rule in Estonia, Latvia and Poland. An estimated...
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    the anti-Soviet resistance against the communist governments (the cursed soldiers, the Forest Brothers). The naval operations of the programme were carried...
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  • Ksawery Błasiak (category Cursed soldiers)
    Ksawery Błasiak (nom de guerre "Albert") (1900, Częstochowa – 1 August 1966, London) was a lieutenant of the Polish Army, of the Home Army and the anti-communist...
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    Tatra Confederation (category Cursed soldiers)
    The Tatra Confederation (Polish: Konfederacja Tatrzańska), or Confederation of the Tatra Mountains, was a Polish resistance organization operating in the...
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  • (Farmers' Battalions—mainstream, apolitical, stress on private property) Cursed soldiers (anti-communist) Gwardia Ludowa (People's Guard [Soviet proxy]) Gwardia...
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    Jadwiga Apostoł (category Cursed soldiers)
    Jadwiga Apostoł-Staniszewska (22 December 1913 – 2 February 1990) was a Polish teacher in the interwar period, an underground activist during World War II...
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    Franciszek Niepokólczycki (category Cursed soldiers)
    Franciszek Niepokólczycki alias Teodor, Szubert, Franek, Żejmian, Halny (27 October 1900 – 11 June 1974) was a colonel of Polish Army. During World War...
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    Zygmunt Szendzielarz (category Cursed soldiers killed in action)
    Remembrance. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. "Łupaszka – the cursed soldier" Archived 2016-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, Pangea Magazine, June 8...
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    Soviet forces continued engaging many Home Army soldiers, who received the moniker of "cursed soldiers".[better source needed] The Home Army was officially...
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