The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands

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Hopefully it comes out in a Kindle version.

I reckon there's a big vacuum that still needs filling on post WWII late 40's/early 50's Eastern Europe.

And hopefully a bit more on late stage Soviet/Warsaw Pact implosion around 80's Poland and external support received.

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Another tip. Two sources. The first is a blog article on the 'Forest Brothers' resistance in Estonia:https://globalecco.org/226

Interesting to note Estonia is only 45,227 sq kms (or 17k sq miles), there were only 130 hiding in the forests - active over a small area - and in March 1949 30k suspected contacts were deported.

There is an article too on the 'Forest Brothers' after the 1940 "voluntary union" with the USSR. Note then there were 12k 'Brothers'. Link:https://globalecco.org/estonias-fore...s-and-outcomes

There is British aspect to the Cold War period, covered in a 1993 book, with SIS mounting operations and being totally outfoxed by the KGB:
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Web-MI6-Ma.../dp/0749314788

[davidbfpo]

There are a number of posts on this theme in another Historians thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=12227 Worth checking out.

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On 18th October 2023 the Centre for Geopolitics, Cambridge University, England held an event in which Dan Kaszeta talks to Donatas Kupciunas about his book: The Forest Brotherhood: Baltic Resistance against the Nazis and Soviets.

They discussed the impact of this important history on contemporary geopolitics in the Baltic Sea region. A common view is that the Second World War in Europe ended in May 1945. However, fighting continued for over a decade in the Baltic states. Stuck between Stalin’s USSR and Hitler's Reich the populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had been subjected to a brutal Soviet occupation in 1940, Nazi invasion in 1941, and Soviet re-occupation in 1944, falsely branded as ‘liberation’. The video recording is now available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3BrgfYt30 (1h 31m).