Polish anti-communist rebellion | |||||||
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Part of Eastern European anti-Communist insurgencies | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Cursed Soldiers | Soviet Union | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
August Emil Fieldorf Witold Pilecki Zygmunt Szendzielarz Józef Kuraś ...and many others |
Stanisław Radkiewicz Konstantin Rokossovsky Lavrentiy Beria |
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Units involved | |||||||
...and many others | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
20,000 partisans | 2 million Red Army Soldiers 35,000 NKVD officers 24,000 Polish soldiers and Ministry of Public Security officers |
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Stanisław Radkiewicz Konstantin Rokossovsky