1943: Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics

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In 1943 the Red Armies defeated the German armies and drove them out of the Ukraine and Central Russia east of a line extending from Nevel at the north to the Dnieper and created a solid salient west of that river in the Kiev area. The Germans were beaten and retreated, but their armies were not... ...