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Armia Ludowa ('''AL''', pronounced ; English ''People's Army'') was a World War II left-wing resistance organisation in Poland. DETAILS Resistance movement On January 1 of 1944 , the " Krajowa Rada Narodowa " (KRN) – "National Council of the Country" replaced the " Gwardia Ludowa " (GL) – " People's Guard " with AL. The KRN intended AL to be an umbrella organisation under which all Left-wing Polish anti-Nazi resistance organizations could be united and then integrated. Most of the 60,000 volunteers of AL came from left-wing resistance organizations of which the disbanded GL contributed 10,000, but a few volunteers joined AL directly without any previous left-wing affiliations. About 12,000 were full-time partisans living in the field and the rest were part-timers living and operating from their homes. Army Seven months after it came into existence, on July 21 , 1944 , AL was integrated with the Polish Military In The USSR and renamed the " Ludowe Wojsko Polskie " (LWP) – "Polish People's Military". After the Red Army and communist-backed 1st Polish Army captured Poland in 1944 and early 1945 , most of the AL members joined the latter. SEE ALSO
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