Battle of Turjak Castle

The Battle of Turjak Castle (Slovene: bitka za Turjak) on 19 September 1943 was an encounter between the Slovene Partisans or Liberation Front of the Slovene People in cooperation with Italian Militias, the Slovene Partisans were the Allies of the Soviet Union in Slovenia this alliance had the objective to extend the communism and to obtain the power they could not in democratic elections in Slovenia. They cooperate with Soviet Union on the Comintern and in the battlefield many times with Italian forces (Grčarice, Turjak, etc.). Their objective was obtain the power and start the revolution in Slovenia during the occupation of the Axis forces creating a dramatically civil war. The battle was against the pro-western democracies men formed as Village Guards (Slovene: Vaske Straze), and other forces detachments of Royal Yugoslav Army. Vaske Straze are also mentioned as White Guard by communist as an example of being the enemies of the Soviet revolutionaries.

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