Was there a particular instance in history of a Communist/Socialist force making a last stand and heroically dying? I don’t mean Stalingrad because the Red Army won. I’m looking for losing battles.
Che guevara last guerrila war on Bolivia, the entire thing was an enormous and tragic disaster from the beggining to the end, yet Che and his boys did the best they could, even if every single odd was against them, they fighted till the end.
Edit: Oh and Salvador Allende last stand hours before Pinochet seized the power on Chile was an very tragic, but inspiring thing, he never surrendered.
Pretty much anything Che did outside of Cuba. He lost a lot in Africa too.
Paris Commune
Not an expert but the Spanish civil war probably has several last stands.
Afghanistan?
The 9/11 you never hear about.
MOVE Movement in Philadelphia being fire bombed by Philly police.
The ALN/MR8 in Brazil during the 1964 military dictatorship.
Besides Che Guevara’s assassination? :(
Tons of examples in the Chinese Civil War. The Red Army lost the Encirclement Campaigns against Chiang, and the CPC almost faced total annihilation abandoning the Jiangxi-Fujian Soviet.
Mao’s own rise in the CPC was due to the military failures of the 28 Bolsheviks - previously he was sidelined. He replaced Bo Gu and Otto Braun at the Zunyi conference, after which they began the Long March.
Also many examples in the Korean war:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Gensi
Jeju uprising/massacre comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising
Generally there are more under the banner of labor strikes that got violently suppressed.
Maybe… some battles in Poland in 1918? The Brest fortress was glorious… Yugoslav battles in 1990s… Transnistria, perhaps…
Brest Fortress. Fits the defeition perfectly.
“I’m dying, but I don’t surrender! Farewell, motherland” one of the writings found on the wall in ruins of barracks of the 132nd separate battalion of escort troops of the NKVD of the USSR
The 1993 riots to save the last vestige of worker power
paris commune i quess?
