Soviet takes Western Europe, What kind of Recistance

[Berra]

Teh war nerd explains that geurilla war is a nasty buissnis. This was seen in a lot of wars against the colonial powers. Is it nesesarely for a guerilla movement to do theese atrocitys and could a "civilised" western Europe produce sucessful guerilla movement.

http://www.exile.ru/2006-April-07/war_nerd.html

[JLCook]

THEY most certainly didn't have much of a resistance movement, I doubt that Western Europeans would have bothered either. One needs to be passionate, fervant about an ideology in order to do that sort of thing

[MerryPrankster]

The Polish Home Army fought on against the Soviets until the late 1940s, while Ukrainian nationalists were active in various places until the early 1950s.

If the Soviets take Western Europe, their armies will likely become overextended and there'd be more opportunities for partisan mayhem.

[The Ubbergeek]

One here seems to have forgotten the Spanish Civil War here, the French resistance and all...

The western europe would have fought.

[Evil Opus]

It depends on how much of Western Europe the Soviets occupy. Probably the French and Spanish raise hell for the Soviets, and eventually they leave.

[Chengar Qordath]

What type of occupation policies the Soviets use would be a rather important factor as well. If they more or less leave the locals alone at let them go about their business guerilla resistance will be much lighter than if they impose communism, perform Stalinesque frequent executions of traitors, suspected traitors, and suspected potential traitors, then rape the horses and ride off on the women. On the other hand, a harsh occupation policy probably crushes resistance sooner than trying to make nice with the locals.