ABSTRACT
The Communists have always tried to monopolize guerilla movements everywhere. The Communist partisans in France and Italy accepted a common leadership, at top level, with the other resistance organizations, in Albania, Yugoslavia, Greece and Poland they kept their complete independence. In the Balkan countries the Communist partisans fought not only against the Germans; they waged an even fiercer war against non-Communist rival movements. In Poland, however, the Communist partisans hardly ever engaged the Germans; all their activities were directed towards wiping out the non-Communist underground movement. In Albania, Yugoslavia and Poland it was an unequal battle, a battle from which the Communists emerged as victors, and in the wake of victory seized political power. They had turned the war of liberation into a revolutionary war and gained their aims. In each of these countries a new satellite was born.
