Active education

“ Active Enlightenment ” ( Russian активная разведка ) was a term used in the years 1921 to 1925 for the actions of the Glawnoje Raswedyvatelnoje Uprawlenije (GRU) and the Cheka and the Gossudarstvennoje polititscheskoje uprawleniye (GPU polititscheskoje uprawleniye ) support of the pro-Soviet party was used in the areas of Poland, Romania and Bulgaria bordering on Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.

history

After the conclusion of the Riga peace treaty between Soviet Russia and Poland on March 18, 1921, the GRU and the Cheka began to initiate the transfer of weapons and agents to the Polish-controlled areas of what is now Ukraine and Belarus. The aim of the effort was to create a guerrilla movement that would lead to the unification of western Ukraine and western Belarus with the Soviet Union.

As a result of the "Active Enlightenment", relations between the Soviet Union and Poland deteriorated until February 1925. At the instigation of Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev , the "Active Enlightenment" was stopped at the end of 1925.

literature

• Stanislaw Alexejewitsch Waupschassow: Forty Years in the Soviet Enlightenment . German translation by Dr. H. Both, Verlag Progreß Moscow, Military Publishing House of the GDR 1981

Web links

• Active reconnaissance (Russian)
• Partisan movement in western Belarus (Poland), 1921–1925. (Russian)
• Active reconnaissance, drifting into banditry Nezavisimaya Gazeta , September 9, 2005 (Russian)