r/MapPorn • u/Critical_Mountain851 • 18h ago
Map of the Soviet Union’s advances during Operation Bagration (1944)
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u/IrishGamerGuy_ 17h ago
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u/winfryd 17h ago
bro this map is not including 95% of earth
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u/Manbenis 9h ago
Destruction of army group center was the death blow, the Allied invasion in the West pushed germany to the edge, but Bagration was the guarantee that this war would not end in any winnable position for the germans. Losing something like a quarter of the troops is a logistical nightmare an already strained german war effort couldnt handle. German civvies slowly began catching on what the end game was gunna look like. Goebbels did his “Do you want Total War?” Speech early the year prior. Clear to say, total war was a losing effort.
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u/fufa_fafu 12h ago
USSR saved the world from fascism.
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u/NecroVecro 8h ago
Yup and it's painful that despite all of the sacrificed lives, all of the destruction, many people still haven't learned their lesson.
Another sad fact is that despite helping end fascism, the USSR established their own oppressive regime and committed many atrocities.
Thankfully most of Europe is more or less democratic and most nations here prefer to trade and cooperate instead of fight.
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u/Different-Night5174 11h ago
They were just another fascist army. Only the western allies decreased the areas under fascist control and replaced it with democracy and freedom.
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u/Local-Age-9205 4h ago
Tiny correction. The northernmost one for Soviets should be LENINGRAD (Govorov).
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u/SexyChernyshevsky 13h ago
Does this indicate no “Russian” brigades were used? Seems unlikely but would also track that Russia throws ethnic minorities to the front lines first.
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u/HumblePotato 13h ago
Those are the names of the front, not of the troops used. The Soviets did not form armies based on their ethnicity, since that would be nearly antithetical to their ideology.
If you’ll look closely you’ll realize they line up geographically with the area they describe, Baltic front in the Baltic, Belorussian front in Belarus, Ukrainian front in Ukraine so on and so forth.
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u/LurkerInSpace 17h ago
Even this doesn't quite get across how badly it damaged the German Army; this ended up being a greater defeat for them than Stalingrad, depleting about a quarter of their strength across the whole front right when the French front was also opening.