Talk:Anti-Soviet partisans

Slovenian Domobranci

In my view this group does not belong here, as the Domobranci never fought directly against the Soviet Union or any of its satellite states. When the Domobranci were set up during the Second World War under German protection (and with German-supplied uniforms and weapons), Slovenia was partitioned between the three Axis powers Germany, Italy and Hungary, and the German-occupied part was officially part of the Reich; its inhabitants were encouraged to think of themselves as German "Lower Styrians", and those who refused were deported or killed. Yugoslavia (of which Slovenia had been part until the Axis invasion in 1941) was not re-established until 1945, at which point the defeated Domobranci either fled the country, never to return (most emigrated to other continents to escape persecution by the Yugoslav secret police in Europe), or else escaped to Allied-occupied Austria but were handed back by the British Army to the new communist authorities, who executed them without trial and threw their bodies into unmarked graves. They were an official, openly acknowledged, eventually 12,000-strong army under the ostensible command of the Slovenian puppet leader Leon Rupnik (who was also executed after the war, following a show trial). There were small groups of anti-communist partisans in post-war Slovenia, including "King Matthew's Army" (named after a legendary folk hero); but by the early 1950s, as in most other parts of the Soviet bloc, they had effectively been wiped out.213.127.210.95 (talk) 13:53, 15 April 2018 (UTC)