Early on, he developed pan-Slavic views as well as strong feelings against the Austro-Hungarian occupational regime in Bosnia.

He worked to curb the excesses of the occupational regime, carried on negotiations with the administration of the district of Galicia, petitioned to end groundless repressions, and pleaded for the release of prisoners, often with positive results.

Other volunteers joined units to protect facilities of the Press Palace, Vilnius Television Tower, and other strategic assets when the Soviet Union was attempting to overthrow the legal authorities of Lithuania and reintroduce an occupational regime in January 1991.

The decision, endorsed unanimously by the Parliament of Georgia instructs the government to organize various memorial events on every February 25 and to fly national flags half-mast to commemorate, as the decision puts it, hundreds of thousands of victims of political repressions of the Communist occupational regime.

Although plans to deport 150,000 Serbs (including colonists from the interwar period, but also native inhabitants) to the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia were opposed by the German command in Belgrade, the Hungarian occupational regime managed to expel between 25,000 and 60,000 of them mostly to Serbia.