The Great Patriotic War

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Eastern Front
Part of the European theatre of World War II
Clockwise from top left: Soviet Il-2 ground attack aircraft in Berlin sky; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, winter 1943–1944; Killings of Jews by German Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender; Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
Date 22 June 1941 (1941-06-22) – 9 May 1945 (1945-05-09) (3 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 3 days) Location Europe east of Germany: Central, Eastern and Northern Europe; in later stages Southeast Europe (Balkans), Germany and Austria Result Soviet victory Soviet Union occupies Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet Communist governments in countries including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany. Establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Beginning of the Cold War and the creation of the Iron Curtain. The beginning of the Greek Civil War. Territorial changes Partition of Germany Borders of Poland changed.
Belligerents
Axis powers  Germany  Romania (until 1944)  Italy (until 1943)  Hungary  Bulgaria (from 5th until 9th September 1944) Axis puppet states  Slovakia  Croatia Co-belligerents  Finland (until 1944)	Allies  Soviet Union <a href="/piglix-tmpl.php?title=Polish_Armed_Forces_in_the_East" title="Polish Armed Force