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Battles involving the Soviet Union
- Operation Storm-333The KGB itself planted the story that Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin was a CIA agent. Soviet archives later exposed it.
- Battle of UmanIn just over three weeks in 1941, German forces destroyed two entire Soviet armies near Uman.
- Smolensk operationOn the first day of the Smolensk operation, Soviet troops gained just 4 kilometers.
- Battle of Smolensk (1941)Germany largely won the Battle of Smolensk in 1941 but lost time it needed to reach Moscow.
- Battle of Białystok–MinskAfter the Western Front collapsed in 1941, the NKVD executed its commander, General Pavlov.
- First Battle of KharkovThe First Battle of Kharkov was settled within a single week, from the 20th to the 24th of October 1941. Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the famous Soviet writer, later described what the city had become: "I saw Kharkiv. As if it were Rome…
- Vienna offensiveThe Vienna offensive of 1945 reached a city that had already endured continuous bombardment for a full year. Many of its buildings and facilities were damaged or destroyed before a single Soviet soldier arrived. The assault was carried out…
- Battle of StalingradHitler promoted Paulus to field marshal at Stalingrad, since no German field marshal had ever surrendered.
- January EventsA small Kaunas studio stayed on air after Soviet soldiers switched off Lithuania's live TV broadcast.
- Battle of Kiev (1941)The 1941 Battle of Kiev played only a small role for the city itself. It trapped 452,700 Soviet soldiers.
- The BarricadesA radio call at 4:45 one morning in January 1991 brought around 700,000 people to Riga.
- Second Battle of KharkovA Soviet offensive at Kharkov in May 1942 ended with more than 250,000 troops trapped.
- Third Battle of KharkovA German counterstrike in February 1943 trapped Soviet spearheads that had just retaken Kharkov.