In June 1944, the decisive battle in the fight against the Third Reich began. Not in Normandy, but thousands of kilometres to the east in Belorussia.
To state this is in no way to disparage the achievement of the Allied soldiers who stormed ashore on D-Day and fought in the gruelling Normandy campaign that followed. But the simple fact is that the Eastern Front mattered far more.
Operation Bagration – or the Battle of Army Group Centre – was a decisive victory for the Red Army. The strategic objectives were accomplished in full, and the Red Army was left well-placed for the final assault on Germany.
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