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Anti-communist/nationalist guerillas (originally armed by the Nazis) in the Ukraine held out against the Soviets for about a decade after WW2, and eventually required Army-level sweeps to fully run them to ground.
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Another group of anti-soviet guerillas called the Forest Brothers existed across the Baltic States from 1940 until 1965, with some former partisans evading capture up until the 1980's. They were heavily armed and based their operations from a well defended network of bunkers across the large forests of the Baltic States, and were responsible for killing thousand of Soviet troops and pro-Soviet informers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania particularly during the late 1940's and early to mid-1950's. They were originally armed by the Germans or used captured Soviet weapons, but were actively supplied and supported by the CIA, MI6 and the Swedish intelligence service up until 1955.