has carried 800 collaborators and their families to Germany. June – August Operation Bagration — destruction of German Army Group Centre. Autumn: the Belarusian Independence Party starts active armed resistance to the returned Soviet regime. 30 Belarusians were airdropped in Belarus. These were known as Čorny Kot led by Michał Vituška. They had some initial success due to disorganization in the Red Army's rear-guard. Anti-Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus lasted until at least the late 1950s. 1945 Čorny Kot carries out guerrilla warfare against Soviet forces. At the end of 1945 Radasłaŭ Astroŭski held a special meeting of the Belarusian Central Council which decided to dissolve the government in order to avoid being sent back to Byelorussian SSR as war criminals. The BCR was eventually revived in exile by Astroŭski and his group and became one of the political centres of the Belarusian diaspora until its dissolution in the 1980s. See also Battle of Brześć Litewski Battle of Grodno (1939) Battle of Smolensk (1941) Belarusian resistance movement Brest-Litovsk fortress Łachwa Ghetto Maly Trostenets extermination camp Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany Reichskommissariat Ostland 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Belarussian) References Further reading Bibliography of the Soviet Union during World War II Bibliography of the history of Belarus and Byelorussia External links Belarusian Nazi during the World War II and their work for the Cold War Biełaruskaja Krajovaja Abarona Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II An Online Memorial of Those Rescued by the Bielski Partisans and Survived the Holocaust from Lida Lida Memorial Society Homepage Stories, Pictures and More Pobediteli: Eastern Front flash animation (photos, video, interviews, memorials), written from a Russian perspective September 17, 1939 – Soviet aggression on Poland Völkermordpolitik War maps of the Eastern Front Years of nazi occupation (1941 – 1944) Беларусь у Другой сусветнай вайне (Belarusian) Вітушка Міхал (Belarusian) Вялікая Айчынная вайна на тэрыторыі Беларусі (Belarusian) Сяргей Ёрш "Адважны генэрал" (Belarusian) Eastern European theatre of World War II Politics of World War II Jewish Belarusian history