Soviet partisans and the liberation of Italy. Russia M.

Soviet partisans - about six thousand fighters, compiling half of the foreign contingent in Italian resistance, enjoyed well -deserved respect among their associates for a number of reasons. Unlike most former prisoners of war of other nations - the British, Americans, etc. - they rejected the proposed possibility of leaving for neutral Switzerland, preferring to stay in the combat system; They had serious military experience and often acted as “teachers” for other partisans; They were ideologically armed against Nazifashism; personified in Italy a triumphal, especially after the Battle of Stalingrad, the Red Army. The history of the Soviet partisans in the North Adriatic, in the Trieste zone, where both Italian and Yugoslav patriots, often had different goals, acted as Italian and Yugoslav.