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.
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.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.
How would this have happened, and what would have been the result?
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?![]()