In the spring of 1944, in the Janowskie Forest in Poland, Soviet partisan units and fighters of the Polish Resistance—the People's Army and the Home Army, which, subordinate to the bourgeois Polish government in London, maintained neutrality—operated against the Nazi occupiers. When the Nazis blockaded the forest, the Soviet partisans, having repelled the initial attack, proposed a unified plan to break out of the encirclement to the leader of the Home Army, Brzezina. Having rejected the Allies' offer, the Polish soldiers were unable to escape the encirclement and perished in an unequal battle.
