About the unsuccessful attempt of the creation of the Polish partisan formations during the Great Patriotic war

Abstract

This article is about the problem of the pro-Soviet Polish partisan movement’s formation during the Great Patriotic War in the territory of Western Belarus. Looking at the expansion of the influence of the Army Krajowa in Vileika region, the comand of the partisan detachments decided to involve local Poles into the resistance movement on the side of the USSR. Since there was no such experience in this region, in the process of creating its own Polish partisan detachment in the summer of 1943 they made a big mistakes. As a result, the new division existed for only a few weeks and turned from the ally into the enemy. The author analyzes the conditions of the creation of the Polish partisan detachment, its social, national features, its size, he explores the personality of the commander Vincenty Mroczkowski and his role in the fate of the division. Special attention is paid to the causes and consequences of the collapse of the Polish partisan detachment.