katya susanina my heart believes the letter will reach. from the first days of the occupation of belarus , a partisan movement unfolded behind enemy lines, which day by day the struggle of the soviet patriots took on a mass character the people's avengers attacked enemy targets and garrisons smashed police stations in a tense struggle expelled fascists from settlements sometimes conquers entire areas where soviet power was restored these territories liberated by partisans in the rear of enemy troops were called partisan zones and territories. from october 1941 to november 1942 in the enemy rear on the occupied belarusian territory was nine extensive partisan zones were formed, 8 in the eastern part of the republic and one in the western part of the formation of partisan zones in the deep enemy rear and holding them one of the brightest pages of the heroic struggle of the belarusian people during the war years, the struggle against the atrocities and violence of the invaders on our native land burned these villages with special cruelty . uh