The Historical Works of the Soviet Union,
Part Five:
In February, of 1943 Soviet forces circled around of the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, which was under German control. This was done to get the German forces in the city to surrender the city and themselves to the Soviet forces. However, the German forces battled the Soviet forces to escape the city. The Soviet forces would lose the battle and the remaining German forces escaped. Then the Soviet forces recaptured the city. However, there were not many Soviet civilians in the city. Since most of them either fled the city, sent to German slave labour camps, or died from starvation caused by the occupation.
Germany then started the third battle of Kharkov. By sending forces, to capture Soviet territory, made up of Kharkov and some territory south of Kharkov. By battling Soviet forces there. In March, the Soviet forces would lose, and the German forces would capture the territory. 23,000 Soviet soldiers were killed in the battle and 9,000 were captured.
Also in March, Soviet forces, defeated German forces, in the Rzhev campaign. Which recaptured the Soviet and Russian city of Rzhev off Germany. During this battle, over 10,000 Soviet civilians, were killed by cross fire, from artillery of the Soviet forces. With far more Soviet soldiers killed in the battle.
In June, 8,000-12,000 Jews in Ukraine were killed in the German controlled, Ukrainian city of Stanislawow, by Germany. This was done as a part of the holocaust.
In July, German forces went marching towards the Soviet and Russian city of Kursk, to try capturing it. Soviet forces, made up of 1,300,000 soldiers and 3,600 tanks, went to fight them around Kursk. The Soviet forces would win, with the German forces retreating. A maximum of 800,000 Soviet soldiers died or got injured, in the battle.
After the battle of Kursk, Soviet forces started recapturing much Soviet territory, off Germany.
In July, the Soviet Union started under Joseph Stalin started operation Kutuzov. To battle German forces and recapture some Soviet territory off Germany, including the Soviet city Orel. The Soviet forces won, in August.
Also in August, Soviet forces invaded and recaptured the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, off Germany.
Also in August, Soviet forces invaded the Russian city of Belgorod, to try recapturing it off Germany. The Soviet forces made up of 400,000 soldiers would battle German forces and win the battle and recapture the city. With 50,000 Soviet soldiers being killed.
In August, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, started a series of Dnepr offensives. To send Soviet forces to try recapturing some Soviet terrioty in Ukraine, by fighting German forces. One offensive was the Chernigov-Poltava offensive. Where Soviet forces, made up of 1,500,000 soldiers, fought German forces. The other offensive was the lower Dnepr offensive, where Soviet forces made up 1,580,000 soldiers, fought German forces.
Also in August, Soviet forces invaded and recaptured the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, off Germany.
In September, Germanys World War 2 ally of Italy, surrendered to the Soviet Union’s World War 2 allies of Britain and America. Germany would go on to invade, capture and control northern Italy and eastern European regions, controlled by Italy, which were Albania and the Yugoslavian territory, that was not already controlled by Germany.
Also in September, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, sent Soviet forces, to and around the capital of the Soviet state of Ukraine, Kiev. To try recapturing Kiev off Germany, by battling German forces. In November, Soviet forces defeated the German forces and recaptured Kiev.
From November-December, Joseph Stalin went to visit the Iranian city of Tehran, with the leaders of Britain and America to discuss winning world war 2. In an event called the Tehran conference. Poland was under the control of Germany. The American and British leaders, wanted the Soviet Union to invade and capture Poland and release it as a nation. However, Joseph Stalin, thought too many German forces would be defending Poland. So the British and American leaders to agree to distract many of the German forces, from fighting in Poland. Distract them by invading and capturing France, which was under German control and releasing France it as a nation. So Joseph Stalin agreed to plan for the Soviet Union to invade and capture Poland. If Poland was captured by the Soviet Union it would:
1.Make Germany less powerful and less likely to invade the Soviet Union in the future.
2.Give less confidence to the German forces.
3. Force Poland into communism.
4.Make Poland a vassal nation (a nation with another one having some control over it) of the Soviet Union. As in the Soviet would have some control over Poland. In return for making Poland not under complete German rule. This would make the Soviet Union more powerful.
In December, German forces, tried to recapture Kiev, by battling Soviet forces in the city. However, the Soviet forces won.
Also in December, the Soviet forces won the Dnepr offensive and recaptured some Soviet territory in Ukraine.
Also by 1944, the Soviet Union had captured enough territory with farmland, to make rations higher. This made sure no Soviet civilians, in territory under Soviet control, starved to death, due to rations. Besides in the sieged city of Leningrad.
Also by 1944, the Soviet Union’s World War 2 ally of Britain, had knowingly or otherwise, starved 2,000,000-4,000,000 people from the Indian region Bengal, including teenage and Child ones, Through Britain having India as a colony. This starvation as part of World War 2, to get food for British soldiers and convince German allied Japan, that Bengal was to starved and useless to invade. This was not covered by the Soviet newspapers and so forth. Both the Soviet Unions World War 2 allies of Britain and America was doing airstrikes on Germany, which was killing many German civilians.
In January of 1944, the Soviet Union started the Leningard-Novorgorod offensive. Where Soviet forces made up of 822,000 soldiers, started fighting German forces around the Soviet and Russian city Leningrad. To capture Soviet territory round Leningrad and stop German forces, sieging the city.
In January, Soviet forces recaptured some of the Soviet territory around Leningrad in the Leningrad -Novgorod offensive and stopped the German forces sieging the city. The Soviet Union still went on with the Leningrad-Novgorod offensive to try recapturing more Soviet territory around Leningrad.
By the end of the siege of Leningrad, Germany had killed over 700,000 Russian civilians including teenage and child ones, in Leningrad, due to starvation. 50,000 Russian civilians in Leningrad were killed or wounded by German artillery striking the city. The artillery striking the city, just like the starvation of city was meant to scare Leningrad into surrendering. One Teenage Russian girl in Leningrad called Tanya Savicheva, wrote in her diary about civilian family members that died and she didn’t the diary, because she too died too.
The Soviet newspapers, that were owned by the Soviet governments did not reveal the level of civilian harm of the siege of Leningrad, during and after the siege. Possibly to not have the Soviet people support the idea of surrendering the city, to end the siege.
By February, Soviet forces were still fighting rebels in Chechnya and Ingush. By this point the rebels had allied, with Germany. In territory, not under rebel control, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, decided to deport 100,000s of Chechens and Ingush people, to places with harsher weather for them and their farms. This was done to collectively punish Chechnya and Ingush, for trying to get independent and being allied to Germany. As well as possibly to let other Soviet people, live in those regions, in the future, to prevent overcrowding. Possibly unknow to the general Soviet public, over 100,000 Chechen and Ingush people died, other during the deportation. As a result of being killed for disobeying orders, or dying from the other bad conditions, in the deportation.
In March, Soviet forces won the Leningrad-Novgorod offensive. With the Soviet forces having 77,000 Soviet soldiers killed or captured by German forces.
Also in March, Germany killed around 7,000 Ukrainian civilians, including teenage and child ones, in the Koriukiv massacre. This was to try getting the civilians property land for future German settlement and to get revenge for a attack on a group of German soldiers, by Ukrainian partisans in Ukraine.
In April, Soviet forces invaded Soviet territory made up of the Soviet state of Moldavia, controlled by Romania. The Soviet forces would fight Romanian forces and recaptured the territory. Also in April, Soviet forces invaded Romania and captured some of Romanian territory.
Romania was by the Soviet Union invaded, so that Romania would be captured and conquered. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin wanted it captured, so Romania would be knocked out of the war. As well as to be forced into communism. In return for the removal of its dictatorship and communism, Romania would also be made into a vassal nation of the Soviet Union, similar to Poland.
Also in April, Soviet forces from the north and east of the large island of Crimea, began fighting German forces in Crimea to recapture it, off Germany. In May, the Soviet forces won and captured Crimea and many surrendered German soldiers off Germany.
Also in May, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, to deport a cultural group, called the Crimean Tatars, from Crimea, to the Soviet state of Uzbekistan. The Crimean Tatars had a population of 180,00. During the deportation and so forth, 10,000s of Crimean Tatars died, due to the poor conditions. This deportation was based around the 5,000 anti-communist Crimean Tatars, that volunteered to be soldiers for Germany. So this deportation was done, after that created less trust for the Crimean Tatars and a desire for collective revenge, against the Crimean Tatars.
Also by May, since the end of the Dnepr offensive, marching Soviet forces had recaptured more Ukrainian territory off Germany, through battling German forces. This meant almost all of the Soviet state of Ukraine was back under Soviet control. However, recapturing such Ukrainian territory, also meant the retreating forces, did a thing called scorched earth policy. In which retreating army forces, burn all farms and factories. So the invading enemy forces, in this case the Soviet forces, wouldn’t be able to take the farmed food, or use the factories to make weapons. This loss of farmed food, would seemingly make the civilians, including teenage and child ones, in the retreated Ukrainian territory, starve more in the aftermath.
Also in Ukraine, at least 18,000 surrendered German soldiers, were captured, by marching Soviet forces.
In June, Britain and America invaded German controlled northern France. In the French region of Normandy. Brittan and America would go on to capture more French territory off Germany.
Also in June, Soviet forces invaded Karelian territory to try recapturing it off Finland. The Soviet forces would fight Finnish forces and started recapturing Karelian territory.
Also in June, Soviet forces made up of 3 units called the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Belarusian fronts invaded the German controlled Soviet state of Belarus, in operation Bagration. The Belarusian fronts were made up of around 2,000,000 Soviet soldiers. The Soviet forces would fight Germans forces in Belarus. That German forces included forces made up of the Dirlwanger Brigade, that was killing and torturing Belarusian civilians that protested against Germany and so forth. Surrendering Dirlwanger soldiers would be killed.
In Belarus in June, the 3rd Belarusian front invaded the cities of Vitesk and Orsha to capture the cities and the German forces in the city. The Soviet forces would fight the German forces in the cities. However, the German forces refused to surrender and be captured. So they all were killed fighting the Soviet forces. The 2nd Belarusian front did the same to the Belarusian city of Mogilev and the German forces inside the city.
In late June, armed Soviet civilians called Partisans did attacks on German army railways, in German controlled Belarus. The railways were used as communication, between the German forces, for strategic reasons.
From to late June to early July, there were Soviet forces made up of the 2nd and 3rd Belarusian front and a large amount of the 1st Belarusian front. The Soviet forces fought German forces in and around Minsk, which was the capital city of the Soviet state of Belarus, to capture it. The Soviet forces won and captured Minsk.
Also in July, Soviet forces captured 17,000 German soldiers in Ukraine.
By August, the Belarusian fronts, also captured a number of other Belarusian cities off Germany. Also by the time much Belarusian territory had been captured by Soviet forces, not even including the cities captured by the Belarusian fronts. Making almost all of Belarus, back under Soviet control.
The retreating German forces in Belarus, did scorched earth policy. In which retreating forces, burned farms and factories. Again, this loss of farmed food, would seemingly make the civilians, including teenage and child ones, in the retreated territory, starve more in the aftermath.
Also by August, in operation Bagration the 1st Belarusian front had invaded and captured some of Poland, off Germany, including the Polish cities of Siedlce. How successful Operation Bagration went, surprised the Soviet military leaders.
In operation Bagration, around 180,000 Soviet soldiers had got captured, missing, killed, recapturing Belarusian territory. Over 500,000 Soviet soldiers got wounded. 200,000 German soldiers had been killed. The Soviet forces also captured 150,000 German soldiers, with some dying on the way, to the gulags, due to the Soviet Union not bothering to give them much food.
In the captured Polish territory, they also freed Jews, including Soviet Jews, from the holocaust execution camp Majdanek. This got coverage in the Soviet newspapers. However, Soviet Jews killed were called Soviet citizens, instead of Soviet Jews, in the Soviet newspapers. Applying that they were killed for being Soviet, rather than for being Jews.
Also by August, there was Soviet forces made up of the 1st Ukrainian front, which was made up of a 1,000,000 Soviet soldiers. The forces captured some territory, made up of the Soviet state of Ukraine and German controlled Poland, off Germany, through fighting German forces.
Also by August, Soviet forces made up of the 2nd Baltic front, had invaded and recaptured some Soviet territory of the Soviet state of Russia. Soviet forces made up of the Leningrad and 3rd Baltic front, invaded and recaptured some of the territory made up of the Soviet Baltic states, off Germany. With the Baltic states being the regions of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. The Leningrad, 3rd Baltic and 3rd Belarusian front would go on to invade and recapture more territory, made up of the Baltic States.
In August, Romania was had much of its territory invaded and captured, by the Soviet forces. Which had got Romania to surrender to the Soviet Union and was placed under wartime Soviet occupation and control.
Also in August, there is a rebellion, in the Polish city of Warsaw, called the Warsaw uprising, to get Poland independent from Germany. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin does not send forces, to help the Polish rebels. As Joseph Stalin wants Poland to be a communist vassal nation.
In World War 2, Bulgaria was Germany occupying and controlling part of the German enemy Yugoslavia. So, in September, Bulgaria wanted to end the occupation, out of fear of invasion by the Soviet Union. However, this didn’t stop the Soviet Union invading Bulgaria, to make it a communist vassal nation, as was planned with Romania and Poland. Bulgarian forces did not fight against the invading Soviet forces. At the same time, Bulgaria declared war on Germany to try convincing the Soviet Union from not invading them. Even though Bulgaria was invaded and conquered by the Soviet Union, Bulgarian forces made up of 500,000 soldiers, still had to fight Germany.
The Bulgarian forces had to fight Germany, in the form of invading German controlled Yugoslavia, to try getting Yugoslavian territory for the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, wanted to get Yugoslavia, for the Same reasons as Poland. Which included making Yugoslavia, communist and a vassal nation of the Soviet Union.
Also in September, Finland signed an armistice with the Soviet Union. With Finland giving back it’s remaining territory, it captured off the Soviet Union. This freed Soviet Russian civilians, in Finnish internment camps. Finland and the Soviet Union later signed a peace treaty. Where the Soviet Union forced Finland to give the Soviet Union money, as revenge and repayment, for Finnish involvement in World War 2.
Also in September, the Soviet Union’s enemy Germany, starts to recruit more Germans to become soldiers, including teenage boys.
Also in September, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin sent Soviet forces invaded Hungary to try capturing Hungary, to make it a communist vassal nation and to knock it out of the war. The Soviet forces fought Hungarian forces.
In October, Soviet forces invaded Yugoslavia. Soon in that month, they worked with communist rebels, to invade the city of Yugoslavian city of Belgrade. German forces had retreated from the city beforehand, believing they would lose, if they stayed to fight.
In October, Soviet forces made up of the 2nd Ukrainian front joined in to invade and fight Hungary. The Soviet forces would capture the Hungarian city of Debrecen. Then a armistice between Hungary and the Soviet Union was signed. However, Germany then threatened the leader of Hungary to go back to war with the Soviet Union, by kidnapping the leaders son. Then Hungary under its leader, went back to war.
Also in October, communist rebels, captured German controlled Albania, off Germany.
Also in October, Soviet forces raided a village in the German region of East Prussia. Committing a massacre, killing 20-500 German civilians, including teenage and child ones. This massacre was done to get a little revenge, on Germany for killing Soviet civilians and possibly to scare Germany into admitting defeat. This massacre was used as propaganda by Germany, on it’s people.
Also in October, in the Warsaw uprising, the Polish rebels, that the Soviet Union did nothing to help, were defeated, by Germany.
Also in October, Soviet forces invaded German controlled Norway and captured some territory, that they let anti-German Norwegian soldiers use as a base, to try capturing Norway.
By December, America and Britain had captured all of France off Germany and brought back as a independent nation. Also by then, Soviet forces had also captured terrioty, around the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
By late December, Soviet forces had recaptured all Soviet territory off Germany, besides some of the territory from the small Soviet state of Latvia. By this point, even almost all Germans had realised, Germany was going to lose World War 2.