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==== Post World War II counter-insurgency operations ====
{{main|Anti-communist insurgencies in Central and Eastern Europe}}
{{see also|Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953)|Guerrilla war in the Baltic states|Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army}}
Following World War II, various partisan organizations in the Baltic states, Poland and Western Ukraine fought for independence of their countries, which were under [[Military occupations by the Soviet Union|Soviet occupation]], against Soviet forces. Many [[NKVD]] agents were sent to join and penetrate the independence movements. Puppet rebel forces were also created by the NKVD and permitted to attack local Soviet authorities to gain credibility and exfiltrate senior NKVD agents to the West.<ref name="Bodansk">{{cite book |last=Bodansky |first=Yossef |title=The Secret History of the Iraq War |date=2005 |publisher=Regan Books |isbn=0-06-073680-1 |location=New York City |author-link=Yossef Bodansky}}</ref>