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Anti-Soviet partisans may refer to various
resistance movement A resistance movement is an organized group of people that tries to resist or try to overthrow a government or an occupying power, causing disruption and unrest in civil order and stability. Such a movement may seek to achieve its goals through ei ...
s that opposed the
Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
and its satellite states at various periods during the 20th century, between the
Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution, social change in Russian Empire, Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia Dissolution of the Russian Empire, abolish its mona ...
(1917) and the
collapse of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...
(1991).


During the Russian Civil War and Interwar period

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Basmachi movement The Basmachi movement (, derived from ) was an uprising against Imperial Russian and Soviet rule in Central Asia by rebel groups inspired by Islamic beliefs. It has been called "probably the most important movement of opposition to Soviet rul ...
* Green armies * August Uprising * Forest Guerrillas * Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine *Organizations of the
White movement The White movement,. The old spelling was retained by the Whites to differentiate from the Reds. also known as the Whites, was one of the main factions of the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. It was led mainly by the Right-wing politics, right- ...
in the 1920s–1930s: ** Brotherhood of Russian Truth ** Russian All-Military Union


During the Second World War and its aftermath

* Armata Neagră (Moldovan SSR) * Chechen anti-communist resistance movement (1940–1944) *
Chetniks The Chetniks,, ; formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland; and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist m ...
(Kingdom of Yugoslavia/Serbia) * Cursed soldiers (Poland) * Goryani (Bulgaria) * Guerrilla war in the Baltic states ** Estonian partisans ** Latvian partisans ** Lithuanian partisans *Organisations formed by Nazi Germany ** GULAG Operation (Komi ASSR) ** Black Cats (Byelorussian SSR) **
Crusaders The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and at times directed by the Papacy during the Middle Ages. The most prominent of these were the campaigns to the Holy Land aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem and its surrounding ...
(Independent State of Croatia) ** Russian People's Liberation Army (Russian SFSR) ** Werwolf (Nazi Germany) * * Polish anti-communist resistance movement (1944–1953) * Republic of Rossony * Romanian anti-communist resistance movement (1947–1962) ** * Ukrainian anti-Soviet resistance


During the Cold War

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Afghan mujahideen The Afghan ''mujahideen'' (; ; ) were Islamist militant groups that fought against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent Afghan Civil War (1989–1992), First Afghan Ci ...
(DR Afghanistan) ** Afghanistan Mujahedin Freedom Fighters Front ** Islamic Party of Afghanistan *
Operation Gladio Operation Gladio was the codename for clandestine " stay-behind" operations of armed resistance that were organized by the Western Union (WU; founded in 1948), and subsequently by NATO (formed in 1949) and by the CIA (established in 1947), in ...
(NATO member states) ** Bund Deutscher Jugend (West Germany) **
Counter-Guerrilla Counter-Guerrilla () is a Turkish branch of Operation Gladio, a clandestine stay-behind Anti-communism, anti-communist initiative backed by the United States as an expression of the Truman Doctrine. The founding goal of the operation was to erect ...
(Turkey) ** Informationsbyrån (Sweden) ** Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit (West Germany) ** Nihtilä-Haahti Plan (Finland) ** Operation Washtub (United States–Alaska Territory) ** Projekt-26 (Switzerland) ** Propaganda Due (Italy) ** SDRA8 and STC/Mob (Belgium) ** Study and Training Group for Military Reconnaissance (West Germany)


See also

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Anti-communism Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism, communist beliefs, groups, and individuals. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, and it reached global ...
** Anti-Sovietism ** Criticisms of communist party rule ** Eastern European anti-Communist insurgencies **
White movement The White movement,. The old spelling was retained by the Whites to differentiate from the Reds. also known as the Whites, was one of the main factions of the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. It was led mainly by the Right-wing politics, right- ...
* Decommunization ** Decommunization in Russia ** Decommunization in Ukraine ** List of monuments and memorials removed following the Russian invasion of Ukraine *
Operation Priboi Operation Priboi ( – Operation "Tidal Wave") was the code name for the biggest Joseph Stalin, Stalin-era Population transfer in the Soviet Union, Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949. Also known as the March depo ...
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Partisan (military) A partisan is a member of a domestic irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of military occupation, occupation by some kind of insurgent activity. The term can apply to the field element of ...
* Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union ** Catacomb Church * Predictions of the collapse of the Soviet Union *
Political repression in the Soviet Union Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people suffered political repression, which was an instrument of the state since the October Revolution. It culminated during the History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953), Stalin er ...
** Refusenik ** Soviet dissidents * Red Scare and
Red Terror The Red Terror () was a campaign of political repression and Mass killing, executions in Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia which was carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police ...
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Resistance during World War II During World War II, resistance movements operated in German-occupied Europe by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda, hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns. In many countries, r ...
* Russian war crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine * Soviet Empire * Soviet espionage in the United States *
Wars of national liberation Wars of national liberation, also called wars of independence or wars of liberation, are conflicts fought by nations to gain independence. The term is used in conjunction with wars against foreign powers (or at least those perceived as foreign) ...
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White émigré White Russian émigrés were Russians who emigrated from the territory of the former Russian Empire in the wake of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and who were in opposition to the revolutionary Bolshevik com ...


References

Anti-communist guerrilla organizations Battles and operations of the Eastern Front of World War II Eastern European World War II resistance movements Intelligence operations Rebellions against the Soviet Union {{Soviet-stub