Guerilla war in the Baltic states

Part of Occupation of the Baltic states

Date	1944–1956
Location	Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Result	Defeat of national partisans

Belligerents

Forest Brothers

Estonians

Latvians

Lithuanians
Supported by

United Kingdom

West Germany

Soviet Union

Strength

~50,000 partisans

Casualties and losses

561 killed, 4285 injured

1,458 killed, 5052 injured

20,093

15,404+

The Guerrilla war in the Baltic states or the Forest Brothers resistance movement was the armed struggle against Soviet rule that spanned from 1944 to the mid-1950s. After the occupation of the Baltic territories by the Soviets in 1944, an insurgency started. According to some estimates, 10,000 partisans in Estonia, 10,000 partisans in Latvia and 30,000 partisans in Lithuania and many more supporters were involved. This war continued as an organised struggle until 1956 when the superiority of the Soviet military caused the native population to adopt other forms of resistance. While estimates related to the extent of partisan movement vary, but there seems to be a consensus among researchers that by international standards, the Baltic guerrilla movements were extensive. Proportionally, the partisan movement in the post-war Baltic states was of a similar size as the Viet Cong movement in South Vietnam.

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