The longest active anticommunist partizans

[Melnyk]

Hi

I am with Askold on this one. I know that some individual UPA units were still engaged in combat (albeit small scale) with Soviet security forces until 1956. I know that they were still active AFTER 1949 because I know of Ukrainian vets of the Galician Div. who were parachuted by the British secret service into western Ukraine in order to link up with forces already there AFTER this date.

best wishes

Mike Melnyk

[Lorsa]

The last Polish partisan was gunned down in 1963.

The last Chechen partisan in 1976. I should mention that 13 years resistance had been going on without any social support. The population had been slaughtered or deported.

[kindzjal]

Indeed. His name was Khasukha Magomadov.

[Serbian heavy cavalry]

The last Chetnik in Yugoslavia was killed in 1957.

[Arto O]

Hi,
What happened in international politics or in Russian internal politics during the 50s, because most or all anticommunist movements dissapeared during that time?

Arto

[Poot]

I mention this one only partially tongue-in-cheek, but Google Lauri Torni ('Larry Thorn'). Now, HE was a long serving anti-Communist, and a damn fine one.

Pat

[Shvabenz]

Greetings,

One of the most prominent Serbian anti-communist guerrillas in Yugoslavia was Vladimir "Vlado" Šipčić who led a group of Chetnik guerillas. I will write about them.


(Vladimir "Vlado" Šipčić)

Vlado was born in Durmitor in the village of Mala Crna Gora, and his father was a participant in all the wars from 1912 to 1918. His son Vladimir (Vlado) enlisted as a volunteer in the army on the same day when the Germans and Italians invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
He was a member of the mountain infantry and deployed around Foča, and it is interesting that he first joined the partisans. According to data from Wikipedia, he took part in the uprising on July 13, 1941, when Montenegro declared independence under Italian patronage. Although they managed to liberate almost the entire territory of Montenegro, in August 1941, the occupiers received a large reinforcement and they occupied it again.
In the winter of 1941, the Partisans started a social revolution, which meant a showdown with political dissidents. That is how Vlado's father was killed in September 1943 in Žabljak. His uncle was also killed, who tried to escape from prison, and Vlado managed to escape and spend the next 14 years in the woods fighting as a guerrilla.
At the age of 17, he was one of the best and youngest fighters of the Foča Chetnik Brigade. He welcomed the end of the war as an already hardened fighter and non-commissioned officer of the JVuO. And then he vowed not to surrender to the partisans alive, as was the case with many Chetniks after they arrested Draža Mihailović.
Vlado continued to fight together with his group.

Božo and Srpko were betrayed and killed in 1951, and Vlado then continued the fight on his own. He failed to avenge Srpko Medenica, but he punished Stoja Golubić, the mistress of Božo Bjelica, who handed him over to the communists. She was shot in the forehead at a people's assembly in eastern Bosnia, after which the police searched for him for a long time and without success.


(Corpses of Srpko Medenica and Ivan Šljukić.)


(Srbobran "Srpko" Medenica.)


(Radjenovic, Sljukic and Medenica.)


(Radoslav Minic "Mountain Beast" from Nova Varos, killed in 1951.)


"THE END OF DUSAN RADJENOVIC

Members of the patrol department found the half-dead Radjenovic on the slopes of Crni Vrh. He was wounded through the abdomen and hip. It is a real miracle, regardless of his perfect condition, which he endured so much.

Dusan Radjenovic has been disabled forever on Crni Vrh."


"Last burst fire of Momcilo Dakic."


"The bunker in Popovic hid and in front of which Popovic was liquidated."


Srbobran "Srpko" Medenica. (2)

Vlado's death remained a mystery. One version is that he was killed in the mountains, and the other at the train station in July 1957, when he tried to escape to France with his fiancée Ana.

The official death has never been confirmed, so it is believed in his area that he may have managed to escape, or he may even still be alive.

After his cousin betrayed him, the UDBA managed to find the cave in which he was hiding, but he managed to escape by jumping into the Drina from a great height. This was even photographed by a member of the service, and the UDBA operatives were convinced that he had died. All that is known is that he did not take revenge on his cousin thanks to his mother Vemija, who told him not to do that.


(Vlado jumping into Drina, photo taken by an UDBA operative.)


Shvabenz

[Giovanni Acuto]

he took part in the uprising on July 13, 1941, when Montenegro declared independence under Italian patronage. Although they managed to liberate almost the entire territory of Montenegro

"liberate"?

From Serbian domination, you mean?

[Shvabenz]

he took part in the uprising on July 13, 1941, when Montenegro declared independence under Italian patronage. Although they managed to liberate almost the entire territory of Montenegro

"liberate"?

From Serbian domination, you mean?

Hello Giovanni,

I'm editing this post because of a misunderstanding, I misunderstood your post. Ivan explained what I meant below.

All the best,
Shvabenz.

[Ivan Ž.]

Although they managed to liberate almost the entire territory of Montenegro

"liberate"?

From Serbian domination, you mean?

Hello, Giovanni

No, what he meant was: "Although [the Partisans] managed to liberate almost the entire territory of Montenegro [from Italian occupiers], in August 1941, the occupiers received a large reinforcement and they occupied it again."

Hello, Shvabenz

Firstly, , and secondly, please always credit image sources, as is required by the forum rules.

Cheers,
Ivan

[Shvabenz]

Although they managed to liberate almost the entire territory of Montenegro

"liberate"?

From Serbian domination, you mean?

Hello, Giovanni

No, what he meant was: "Although [the Partisans] managed to liberate almost the entire territory of Montenegro [from Italian occupiers], in August 1941, the occupiers received a large reinforcement and they occupied it again."

Hello, Shvabenz

Firstly, , and secondly, please always credit image sources, as is required by the forum rules.

Cheers,
Ivan

Hello, Ivan

Thank you for the welcome and thank you for the advice, I will credit image sources from now on.

All the best,
Shvabenz