the Red Army) there were some 20,000–30,000 members, 5,000 of them being Soviet nationals. Lower estimates quote about 14,000 as its peak strength, whereas high estimates double the middle number, up to 50,000–60,000. About 6,000 of them were active full-time partisans. Whatever its exact size, AL was much smaller than ("a fraction of") the primary Polish resistance organization, the Armia Krajowa. At the same time, GL/AL was much better armed than Armia Krajowa as a result of Soviet air drops; it might have even had a surplus of weaponry. It also had less strict discipline. Polish People's Army Seven months after it came into existence, on 21 July 1944, the People's Army was integrated into the Polish Military in the USSR and formed the new People's Army of Poland (Ludowe Wojsko Polskie, LWP). After the Red Army and the Soviet-organized 1st Polish Army entered Poland late in 1944 and early 1945, most People's Army members joined the communist 1st Polish Army. After the war, many of its members joined the ranks of the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of Poland, or the Milicja Obywatelska (police). Operations, propaganda and criticism According to AL's claims, it carried out about 900 operations, killing 20,000 Germans, derailing 350 trains, and destroying 79 bridges. However, GL/AL exploits were significantly exaggerated by communist propaganda in the People's Republic of Poland. Historian Piotr Gontarczyk estimates that only about 5–10% of the GL/AL actions really took place, and that most instances of GL/AL fighting the German military were defending from German anti-partisan operations, with instances of the GL/AL attacking Germans on its own initiative being very rare. Rather than engaging military targets, the GL/AL preferred softer targets, such as German administration offices. That changed in 1944, when the GL/AL grew stronger and began engaging the German military more actively. According to the historian Mieczysław B. Biskupski, the AL was less concerned with fighting the Germans than with fighting the Home Army. According to Gontarczyk and Janusz Marszal, however, that was relatively uncommon, at least with regards to direct actions, but the GL/AL would often pass anonymous tips about the AK to the Gestapo. The People's Army took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Official claims held that some 1,800 People's Army soldiers fought there, but modern research suggests the actual number to have been about 500. As the GL/AL had a much poorer support network than