Guerrilla war against Soviets in Eastern Europe following WWII

Thats OTL. You had the Forest Brothers, Cursed Soldiers, the UPA, along with some groups in the Warsaw Pact (mostly farmers that found Communism wasnt so cool after all).
 
Romania had an extensive guerrilla war against the Soviets after WWII. It took decades to get rid of them all and was very classified. Only after the end of the Cold War did we find this out.
 
Never heard of that. Could you elaborate?
From what i recall they were mainly dissatisfied members of agrarian communities or Fascist remnants that hid out in mountains and rural areas (Romania has a lot of mountains) and emerged to conduct raids and stuff like that.

They had no organized command structure or unified cooperation between different cells (except for the Iron Guard remnants). Mostly just a bunch of isolated individual bands of rebels that banded together while in the mountains and didnt like communism.

Not really that major to be honest, but they did have tenacity. Like 1.36 said, they took decades to wipe out.
 
There was plenty of guerilla activity in the western regions, though it was largely ineffectual.

So OTL?
 
Rollback was never a serious option for Eastern Europe, nobody in the West thought a major war potentially involving nuclear weapons was worth it. NATO didn't seize the initiative in Hungary or Czechoslovakia when the uprisings did most of the heavy lifting, and they're not going to do anything for minor insurgencies that they barely know about. Pretty much OTL.
 
To be fair, Poland avoided agricultural collectivization, probably out of fear of provoking the peasants to larger revolts. So maybe you can call that a small success.
 
From what i recall they were mainly dissatisfied members of agrarian communities or Fascist remnants that hid out in mountains and rural areas (Romania has a lot of mountains) and emerged to conduct raids and stuff like that.

They had no organized command structure or unified cooperation between different cells (except for the Iron Guard remnants). Mostly just a bunch of isolated individual bands of rebels that banded together while in the mountains and didnt like communism.

Not really that major to be honest, but they did have tenacity. Like 1.36 said, they took decades to wipe out.

Doesn't surprise me. The Iron Guard had experience surviving mass repression.
 
Not only that but the remaining guards of the king to. They where loyal to the monarchy and fought well int the 60s.
 
How would this have happened, and what would have been the result?

It DID happen. It was long, tragic, and destined to failure. In Lithuania half the country remained in the hands of patriots/insurgents for years. There was massive resistance also in Estonia, Western Ukraine, Transylvania, parts of Poland and the Carpathians. All the rebels expected the war to begin anew and Americans to free them, to no avail. Operations mounted from Western secret services to help them with men, weapons and communication equipment failed thoroughly, officially because Kim Philby and the likes betrayed everyone and everything to their Soviet puppetmasters, but probably also because of real hamhandedness in their organization.
In teh end, guerrilla died down from the late Forties to the first half of the Fifties. Some guerrillas seem to never have surrendered, and simply stayed in the woods for decades to resurface as old bitter men when the USSR imploded.
 
Basically, in order for an effective resistance to be mounted, you'd pretty much need the Germans operating on an entirely defensive mindset from about '43 or so, and actively aiding and abetting any and all anti-communist group and organization so that by the time of Germany's surrender and the Soviet occupation, the groups are well-armed, well-funded, and well-organized. Given the fact that Germany couldn't get its own resistance movement off the ground in OTL, it's borderline ASB. And even if one could accomplish this, the Soviets will win eventually anyway, having the ability to apply numbers to the problem if not sheer brutality.
 
Basically, in order for an effective resistance to be mounted, you'd pretty much need the Germans operating on an entirely defensive mindset from about '43 or so, and actively aiding and abetting any and all anti-communist group and organization so that by the time of Germany's surrender and the Soviet occupation, the groups are well-armed, well-funded, and well-organized. Given the fact that Germany couldn't get its own resistance movement off the ground in OTL, it's borderline ASB. And even if one could accomplish this, the Soviets will win eventually anyway, having the ability to apply numbers to the problem if not sheer brutality.

Why not sheer brutality?:confused:
 
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