- Armia Ludowa
Armia Ludowa (AL, pronounced IPA| ['armȋa lu'dva] ; English "People's Army") was a partisan force set up by the
Polish Workers' Party duringWorld War II . Its aims were to support theUSSR military against the German forces and the creation of a Soviet controlled communist regime inPoland .pl icon [http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3871193 Armia Ludowa] in Encyklopedia PWN] It was the largest military organization which refused to join the structures of thePolish Underground State .Details
Resistance movement
On
January 1 of1944 , theKrajowa Rada Narodowa (KRN) – National Council of the Country replaced theGwardia Ludowa (GL) –People's Guard with AL. The KRN intended to gain volunteers from other groups.In its beginning the organisation counted 10 000 members, at the end of July 1944 (when much of Poland was occupied by Soviet forces) circa 30,000 members left on the occupied territories, with 6,000 of them being active full-time partisans.Army
Seven months after it came into existence, on
July 21 ,1944 , AL was integrated with the Polish Military in the USSR and renamed theLudowe Wojsko Polskie (LWP) – Polish People's Military. After theRed Army and Soviet-controlled1st Polish Army captured Poland in1944 and early1945 , most of the AL members joined the latter. After the war most of its members joined the ranks of Ministry of Public Security in Communist Poland, dedicated to enforcing Soviet control over Poland [http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/3804_1.html] , [http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/47537_1.html]References
See also
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Soviet partisans in Poland External links
* [http://www.ipn.gov.pl/portal/pl/398/4908/ Gwardia Ludowa, Armia Ludowa] on the pages of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance
Further reading
* cite book | author =Steven J Zaloga | coauthors = | title =Polish Army, 1939-1945
year =1982 | editor = | pages = | chapter = The Polish People's Army| chapterurl = http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&id=AAdYFeW2fnoC&dq=first+polish+army&lpg=PA27&pg=PA26&sig=WN1KQpOlr7_qConUSBptg32zoaE| publisher =Osprey Publishing| location = Oxford | id =ISBN 0-85045-417-4| url =http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0850454174&id=AAdYFeW2fnoC&dq=isbn+0850454174&pg=PP1&printsec=0&lpg=PP1&sig=ajafnskh3BRg59sdnerIgirmLBc| format = | accessdate =
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