The aim of the organization was to prepare for an armed uprising in the event of a war between the United States, Britain and the USSR.

Leaflets and posters were distributed, shops were robbed, information about the communists was collected for later sabotage, ambushes, or infiltration.

It was also planned to send its delegates to Stockholm to establish official relations, but the MGB managed to arrest the selected men.

[3][4] In the autumn of 1948, a decision of a special meeting of the KGB sentenced 59 people involved in the RVL to a prison camp for a longer or shorter period.

[citation needed] The structure of the Armed Combat Union was built on the principle of rural municipality organizations.

The aim was to create a sub-organization in each rural municipality, the activities of which were to be managed by a person elected by the Central Staff.