German–Soviet War

Eastern Front

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	Decisive Allied victory, end of World War II in Europe (concurrently with the Western Front), destruction of the Third Reich and the death of Adolf Hitler 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.