Eastern Front (World War II)
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The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. It has been known as the Great Patriotic War (Template:Lang-ru,Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna) in the former Soviet Union and modern Russia, while in Germany it was called the Eastern Front (Template:Lang-de),
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See also
- Timeline of the Eastern Front of World War II
- Historiography of World War II
- Captured German equipment in Soviet use on the Eastern front
- Horses in World War II
- Italian participation in the Eastern Front
- List of military operations on the Eastern Front of World War II
- Operation Silver Fox – Axis attack on the Soviet Arctic
- Soviet–Japanese War – the Soviet campaign against Imperial Japan in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Korea, South Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands
- Kantokuen – planned Japanese invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
- German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II
- Belgium in World War II
- Bulgaria during World War II
- Estonia in World War II
- Finland during World War II
- France during World War II
- Hungary during World War II
- Romania during World War II
- Severity Order
- The Battle of Russia – film from the Why We Fight propaganda film series
- Victory Day and Ribbon of Saint George
- Western Front (World War II)
- Women in the Russian and Soviet military
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