The Soviet partisans were members anti-fascist resistance movement which fought against the occupation of the Soviet Union by Axis forces during World War II. Anti-Fascism is a belief and practice of opposing all forms of Fascism. ... A resistance movement is a group dedicated to fighting an invader in an occupied country. ... The Axis Powers is a term for the loose alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

At the end of June 1941, immediately after the Germans crossed the Soviet border, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) (see Communist Party of the Soviet Union) ordered Party members to organize an underground on occupied territories. In 1941 underground cells sprang up throughout Ukraine, Belarus, and western Russian regions such as Bryansk overrun by Nazi invasion. Partisans waged the guerrilla warfare against the occupiers operating with the increasing support of the local population antagonized by German brutality. For other usage of the initials CPSU see CPSU (disambiguation). ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ... Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. ...

Partisans were recruited from Party cadres left behind the German lines, escapees from German prisoner of war camps, and refugees from the German terror. Partisan may refer to: A member of a lightly-equipped irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation. ...

Belarus had the largest number of Soviet partisans who numbered over 300 000 fighters under the leadership of M. Zhukovsky, P. Ponomarenko and others. As early as the spring of 1942 they were able to effectively harass German troops and significantly hamper their operations in the region.

The first Ukrainian partisan detachments appeared Chernihiv and Sumy regions. They developed out of M. Popudrenko's and S. Kovpak's underground groups, but only became a formidable force by 1943 operating throughout occupied Ukraine and numbering over 150 000 fighters. Chernihiv Oblast (Чернігівська область, Chernihivs’ka oblast’ or Чернігівщина, Chernihivshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. ... Sumy Oblast (Сумська область, Sums’ka oblast’ or Сумщина, Sumshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast of northern Ukraine. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ...

In Bryansk region Soviet partisans controlled vast areas behind the German rear. In the summer of 1942 they effectively held territory of more than 14 000 square kilometers with population of over 200 000 people. Soviet partisans in the region were led by A. Fedorov, A. Saburov and others and numbered over 60 000 men.

Soviet partisans inflicted hundreds of thousands casualties on Axis forces and contributed significantly to the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Eastern Front1 was the theatre of combat between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. ...