Skidel revolt
| Skidel revolt | |||||||
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| Part of the Polish-Belarusian ethnic conflict and the invasion of Poland | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Second Polish Republic | Communist Party of Western Belorussia | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 100 soldiers and police officers | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Several killed |
Soviet estimates 18–31 killed 70 arrested | ||||||
The Skidel Revolt (Polish: Powstanie Skidelskie, Belarusian: Скідзельскае паўстанне) or Skidal Uprising (term used in Soviet historiography) was an anti-state and anti-Polish sabotage action done by Jewish and Belarusian inhabitants of the Polish town of Skidel near Grodno (now Skidzieĺ, Belarus) at the onset of World War II. It started on the second day of the Soviet invasion of Poland in an attempt to assist the external attack.