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hundreds of political prisoners were freed in numerous raids on communist prisons in Poland between 1944 and 1946?
in May 1945, Marian Bernaciak (pictured) helped defeat a force of 680 soldiers supported by armored cars in the largest battle between the communist government of Poland and the anti-communist resistance ?
the May 1945 Battle of Kurylowka was one of the biggest clashes fought between the NKVD and Polish anti-communist resistance ?
the name of Polish anti-Nazi and anti-communist activist Łukasz Ciepliński (pictured) was banned from all books by the Communist government ?
Józef Franczak , last of the cursed soldiers , was a resistance fighter for over half his life?
Józef Franczak , last of the cursed soldiers , was a Polish resistance fighter for 24 out of 45 years of his life?
Polish historian, army officer, and independence activist Wacław Lipiński joined the anti-communist resistance , was arrested by communist secret police in 1947 and died in prison two years later?
Polish partisan Adam Lazarowicz , organizer of an assassination attempt on Nazi official Hans Frank , refused the Order of the Red Star and joined the anti-Soviet resistance ?
cursed soldiers is the name for Polish resistance members who fought against the Soviet Union and Polish communists for almost two decades in the aftermath of the World War II ?
Franciszek Przysiężniak led partisan units into the largest battles of the anti-Nazi and anti-communist resistance ?
Polish partisan leader Władysław Łukasiuk , despite his paralyzed leg, always marched at the head of his unit, using his carbine as a crutch?
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Question 2 : Until the
end of the People's Republic of
Poland , AK soldiers were under investigation by the secret
police, and it was only in 1989, after the ________ , that the sentences of AK
soldiers were finally declared invalid and annulled by the Polish
courts.
Question 4 : Consequently, for more
than a year, it was Soviet agencies like the ________ that dealt with the AK.
Question 6 : The persecution of the AK was only part of the big picture of ________ in Poland.
Question 7 : ________ , pseudonyms "Orlik",
"Dymek"
Question 8 : By the end of the
war, approximately 60,000 soldiers of the AK had been arrested, and
50,000 of them were deported to the Soviet Union's ________ and prisons.
Question 9 : The 'cursed soldiers' (Polish : Żołnierze wyklęci ) is a
name applied to a variety of Polish resistance movements that were
formed in the later stages of ________ and afterwards.
Question 10 : ________ , pseudonym
"Nil"
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