So this date also marks the initiation, seventy-eight years ago, of Operation Bagration, the massive Red Army offensive that swept the Germans out of Soviet territory, drove them back across eastern ...

Operation “Bagration” was the Soviet revenge for the catastrophic disasters of 1941. It cost the Third Reich the lives of almost half a million of its soldiers, and the whole Army Group Center ...

Soviet soldiers liberated Europe at the cost of their livesThe strategic offensive Operation Bagration played a key role in bringing the ...

The Soviet army’s Operation Bagration offensive in June 1944 destroyed their greatest nemesis — Nazi Germany’s Army Group Center — and drove hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops and ...

The Soviet army’s Operation Bagration offensive in June 1944 destroyed their greatest nemesis — Nazi Germany’s Army Group Center — and drove hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops and ...

Operation ‘Bagration’ was conducted in two stages. The first stage (June 23 – July 4, 1944) resulted in the liberation of Eastern and Central parts of Belarus, including its capital city, Minsk.

The operation was timed by the Soviets to start on the anniversary of the invasion of Russia by Germany in 1941 and was named after Gen Pyotr Bagration, who had been killed at the battle of ...

It seems fitting that Memorial Day has such a close proximity to D-Day. Especially so since this year marks the 70th anniversary of the greatest amphibious operation ever attempted. But just what ...

Vitebsk was liberated from the Nazi invaders on 26 June 1944, on the third day after the start of the Belarusian offensive operation Bagration, one of the largest military operations of the Great ...