Forest Brothers
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The Forest Brothers (also Brothers of the Forest; Forest Brethren; Forest Brotherhood; Estonian:metsavennad, Latvian:meža brāļi, Lithuanian:miško broliai) were Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian partisans who waged a guerrilla war against Soviet rule during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the three Baltic states during, and after, World War II. Similar anti-Soviet Eastern European resistance groups fought against Soviet and communist rule in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, and western Ukraine.