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2 Sep 2024
History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [440]
It wasn't a regular brigade. They had issues with weapons.
Secondly, it wasn't formed to fight on the front but to evacuate those people/soldiers who had been exposed to Soviet intelligence, and contrary to naive AK people they knew what was going to happen once the Red Army and NKVD took over.
the organization that the brigade represented had about 75 000 people during the occupation, while AK had about 250 000 - 300 000.
Calling 800 men A BRIGADE, is nonsense.
It wasn't a regular brigade. They had issues with weapons.
Secondly, it wasn't formed to fight on the front but to evacuate those people/soldiers who had been exposed to Soviet intelligence, and contrary to naive AK people they knew what was going to happen once the Red Army and NKVD took over.
the organization that the brigade represented had about 75 000 people during the occupation, while AK had about 250 000 - 300 000.