[Jacob Peters]

Dmitri Donskoi: With victory in the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, Russia started to break away from the suzerainty of the Mongol cannibals.

Dmitry Pozharsky - Liberated Russia from the occupation of the hegemonic Polish; Moscow was freed on 7 November 1612.

Bogdan Khmelnytsky: led the Ukrainian people to liberation from Polish szlachta and Jewish arendators. Outcome was the reunification of Russia and Ukraine in 1654.

Alexander Ypsilantis: helped to start Greece's national liberation war against the merciless oppression of the Turks.

Karadorde Petrovic: national hero of Serbia who helped to start national liberation war against the Turkish yoke.

Vasil Levski - led Bulgaria to independence after five centuries of ruthless Turkish domination.

Ferdinand II of Aragon - effectively liberated all of Spanish territory from the oppression of the Arab Muslim imperialists.

[The Immortal Goon]

Tom Barry - bad ass and Cork General in the Irish Revolution and Irish Civil War.

-TIG

[Annatar]

Josip Broz Tito - Liberated Yugoslavia from the Nazis and fascist collaborators.

[SpetsNaz]

General Võ Nguyên Giáp - Successfully kicked both french and american imperialists out of Vietnam.

[Suryong]

James Connolly - the one and only
Padraig Piaras/Pearse - not as great but still important

[Jacob Peters]

Another one would be Paul Kruger who led the resistance of the oppressed Boers against the British imperialists. Tragically, though, the Boers failed.

[Che Burashka]

José de San Martín and Simón Bolivar - For liberating all of South America from the hands of the spanish empire.

[Fin Fang Foom]

George Washington.

[Greg A. Young]

Quote:

General Võ Nguyên Giáp

QFT

[Farell]

So how come you only put some of the accents on the name?

[Greg A. Young]

Bernardo O'Higgins, José Martí, Mohandas K. Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr.

How about Subhash Chandra Bose? What do people think of him? A hero, a fool, a puppet, a villian, all of the above?

[Praetorian]

Garibaldi and Mazzini: duh!!

[Methods]

Roger Casement - anti-imperialist activist and martyr to the Irish republican movement.

[Marshal Konev]

Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Raul Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos (sort of) - liberation of Cuba from yoke of US imperialism

Faisal I and T.E. Lawrence - liberation of Arab states from Ottoman empire

All WWII Allied generals ... - liberation of all Axis-occupied territories

[Glorious Leader]

Quote:

Roger Casement

QFT

[Methods]

Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu - liberated black South Africans from the Apartheid Van de Clerk government.

Joe Slovo, Ruth First - dedicated socialists, worked towards liberation of South Africa.

Salvador Allende - dedicated socialist, seized control of Chile from local oligarchs and American sugar cartels, slain by reactionary CIA-backed truck-drivers' union.

[Red Robespierre]

Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iranian resistance to US puppet monarchy.

Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese national liberationist on the frontline against imperialism. Great song about him by a young Palestinian band Firkat il-Shamal, "The Hawk of Lebanon":

http://newsbusters.org/media/2006-08-25-nasrallah.mp3

Kim Il-Sung the father of the DPRK, a Korean land free of Japanese AND Anglo-Imperialism.

Mao Zedong - Liberator of China from Kuomintang and Japanese Imperialism.

[Jacob Peters]

National liberation does not necessarily have to be of a revolutionary socialist character. In this context, national liberation is more about resistance to foreign occupation e.g Joan of Arc rather than the revolutionary transformation of society e.g G.A Nasser. While some may perceive Ferdinand and Isabelle to be oppressive, they still are to be applauded for liberating the Spanish people from the tyranny of the Arab imperialism.

[Diving Carrot]

Jozef Pilsudski - kicked out bolsheviks asses out of Poland, therefore he damped down their wordwide red revolution spreading ideas.

[Jacob Peters]

Quote:

Jozef Pilsudski - kicked out bolsheviks asses out of Poland

Please do not distort the conflict as one of Russian aggression because the Polish started the war when they unleashed aggression upon Soviet Ukraine in April 1920 with the Kiev Offensive. And don't present the conflict as being a one-sided victory for Poland when in fact it was a stalemate. The Poles did not defeat the Russians any more than the Russians defeated themselves with strategic mistakes. Russian troops were poorly trained, poorly equipped conscripts sitting in internal garrisons. Transport was in a terrible state and distractions in other areas meant that the Polish front had to rely on its own resources.

Previously the Poles had unleashed aggression upon the Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR in 1919. In February 1920 before Polish aggression the Bolshevik press stated:

But our enemies and yours deceive you when they say that the Russian Soviet Government wishes to plant communism in Polish soil with the bayonets of Russian Red Army men. A communist order is possible only where the vast majority of the working people are penetrated with the idea of creating it by their own strength. Only then can it be solid; for only then can communist policy strike deep roots in a country. The communists of Russia are at present striving only to defend their own soil, their own constructive work; they are not striving, and cannot strive, to plant communism by force in other countries.” Source:EH Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution, volume 3, p.165, London