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The Soviet partisans in Latvia were Soviet partisans who were deployed to Latvia and attempted to wage guerrilla warfare against the German armed forces during the German occupation of Latvia. Partisan activity was singularly unsuccessful in Latvia due to the general resistance of the population to the Soviet regime that the partisans represented.

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Soviet partisans in Latvia

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The Soviet partisans in Latvia were Soviet partisans who were deployed to Latvia and attempted to wage guerrilla warfare against the German armed forces...

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Latvian partisans

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Soviet partisans

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Guerrilla war in the Baltic states

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The guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an insurgency waged by Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian) partisans against the Soviet Union from 1944...

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Lithuanian partisans

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Lithuanian partisans (Lithuanian: Lietuvos partizanai) were partisans who waged guerrilla warfare in Lithuania against the Soviet Union in 1944–1953....

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Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

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The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR), also known as Soviet Latvia or simply Latvia, was de facto one of the constituent republics of the...

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Soviet partisans in Estonia

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resistance movement 1941–1944 Soviet partisans in Latvia Lithuanian partisans Howell, Edgar M. (1997). The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944. Merriam...

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German occupation of Latvia during World War II

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units under the Latvian Central Council and the pro-Soviet forces under the Central Staff of the Partisan Movement in Moscow. Their Latvian commander was...

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Estonian partisans

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Estonian partisans, also called the Forest Brothers (Estonian: Metsavennad) were partisans who engaged in guerrilla warfare against Soviet forces in Estonia...

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Occupation of the Baltic states

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Latvian War of Independence

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in Latvia between 5 December 1918, after the newly proclaimed Republic of Latvia was invaded by Soviet Russia, and the signing of the Latvian-Soviet Riga...

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Latvia

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Soviet women in World War II

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machine gunners, tank crew members and partisans, as well as in auxiliary roles. At first, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, thousands...

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Latvian diplomatic service in exile

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and Soviet occupation of Latvia during 1940–1991. Latvian diplomats who were stationed in embassies and consulates at the moment of the occupation in 1940...

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Operation Winterzauber

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residents were taken as forced labour. Partisans in Novgorod region, Belarusian partisans, Soviet partisans in Latvia, and the populace themselves had resisted...

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Resistance in Lithuania during World War II

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Latvian National Armed Forces

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Soviet war crimes

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under international law. In 2004, Vassili Kononov, a Soviet partisan during World War II, was convicted by Supreme Court of Latvia as a war criminal for...

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Russians in Latvia

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during the Soviet occupation of Latvia when the size of the community grew from 8.8% of the total population in 1935 (206,499) to 34.0% in 1989 (905,515)...

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History of Latvia

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more came under Soviet control and Latvian national partisans began their fight against another occupier – the Soviet Union. 160,000 Latvian inhabitants took...

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Belarusian resistance during World War II

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Belarus was one of the Soviet republics occupied during Operation Barbarossa. The term Belarusian partisans may refer to Soviet-formed irregular military...

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