Partisans!

After the battle of Djukovo in November 1941, the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (LVF) was withdrawn from the German first lines in the Eastern Front. After a serious reorganization, the LVF was used as anti-partisan unit on the …

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After the battle of Djukovo in November 1941, the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (LVF) was withdrawn from the German first lines in the Eastern Front. After a serious reorganization, the LVF was used as anti-partisan unit on the rear of the front in White Russia (now Belarus). In November 1942, the 1st company of LVF surrounded the small village of Somry, in the wooden area of Borisov, where Soviet partisans have been observed. The LVF attacked the village with the help of the Cossack squadron n° 600, allied to the Germans. At the end of the battle, about 60 Soviet partisans have been destroyed. The stage is set, the battle lines are drawn and you are in command.

Somry, Russia

The Soviet partisans were members of Resistance movements that fought a guerrilla war against the Axis forces in the Soviet Union, the previously Soviet-occupied territories of interwar Poland in 1941–45 and eastern Finland. The activity emerged after Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa was executed during World War II, and it was coordinated and controlled by the Soviet government and modeled on that of the Red Army. The partisans made significant contributions to the war by frustrating German plans to exploit occupied Soviet territories economically, gave considerable help to the Soviet Army by conducting systematic strikes against Germany's rear communication network, disseminated political work among the local population by publishing newspapers and leaflets, and succeeded in creating and maintaining a feeling of insecurity among German forces.

Wikipedia: Soviet Partisans

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