Communist resistance movement

	Communist resistance movement

Among many underground groups operating on the Polish soil there were also communist organizations or formations, which collaborated tightly with the Soviets.

In 1942 Polish Workers Party was created. It called into being its own armed organization - the People's Guard (GL). This one was in turn transformed, on the 1 of January 1944, into the People's Army (commander: General Michał Rola Żymierski). The formations of the communist underground were to unite as many as 20.000 people. Among them were Soviet prisoners of war which have fled from their camps and Jews. The Home Army's organizational structure encompassed the main command, 6 districts, which were divided into 18 circles. These in turn encompassed the subcircles and regions.

The People's Army was in command of relatively numerous troops in Lublin and Kielce districts. They carried out actions targeted against the Germans (according to the communist data, in 1944 1100 such actions were carried out), but also prepared themselfes to seize the power after stepping in of the Red Army. Then a large part of the People's Army' members was incorporated into the repression system in Poland.