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The Forest Brothers (also Brothers of the Forest; Forest Brethren; Forest Brotherhood; , , ) were Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian partisans who waged a guerrilla war against Soviet rule during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the three Baltic states during, and after, World War II. Similar anti-Soviet Eastern European resistance groups fought against Soviet and communist rule in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, and western Ukraine.

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  • Forest Brothers
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  • The Forest Brothers (also Brothers of the Forest; Forest Brethren; Forest Brotherhood; , , ) were Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian partisans who waged a guerrilla war against Soviet rule during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the three Baltic states during, and after, World War II. Similar anti-Soviet Eastern European resistance groups fought against Soviet and communist rule in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, and western Ukraine.
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  • ~50,000
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  • 1940(xsd:integer)
Name
  • Forest Brothers
ideology
  • National liberation
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  • British, American and Swedish intelligence services, Finnish army
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  • Baltic states
War
  • the guerilla war in the Baltic states
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  • The Forest Brothers (also Brothers of the Forest; Forest Brethren; Forest Brotherhood; , , ) were Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian partisans who waged a guerrilla war against Soviet rule during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the three Baltic states during, and after, World War II. Similar anti-Soviet Eastern European resistance groups fought against Soviet and communist rule in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, and western Ukraine. The Red Army occupied the independent Baltic states in 1940–1941 and, after a period of German occupation, again in 1944–1945. As Stalinist repression intensified over the following years, 50,000 residents of these countries used the heavily forested countryside as a natural refuge and base for armed anti-Soviet resistance. Resistance units varied in size and composition, ranging from individually operating guerrillas, armed primarily for self-defense, to large and well-organized groups able to engage significant Soviet forces in battle.
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