Bandits at Strubowiska ETO (id:#60285)

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Strubowiska, Poland 1945-03-21 (4 others)

Overview:

Formed in 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) began to resist the German occupation. As the war progressed, the front passed back to the west and the UPA themselves fighting against their old Russian enemies, Soviet partisans and NKVD Internal Security Forces. The NKVD were brutal in the treatment of the UPA, who they referred to as ‘bandits’. On this day, Strubowiska was the target of a NKVD search and destroy operation against the UPA.

Defender: Ukrainian (UPA (Ukrayins'ka Povstans'ka Armiya) Sotnia "Weselyj")  

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