 Thus, between 1944 and 1956 all the members of "Batalion Zośka", which had fought in the Warsaw Uprising, were locked up in communist prisons.In 1956 an amnesty released 35,000 former Home Army soldiers from prisons.Even then, however, some partisans remained in the countryside, unwilling or unable to rejoin the community; they became known as the "cursed soldiers".