The offensive followed the events of D-Day on the Western Front and aimed to exact revenge for the Soviet losses suffered during the German blitzkrieg known as Operation Barbarossa three years earlier.
Victory in Europe could never have been achieved if not for the sacrifice of the Soviet Union in the eastern front. One of the Red Army’s major offensives came in the summer of 1944, and went by the name Operation Bagration. The offensive followed the events of D-Day on the Western Front and aimed to exact revenge for the Soviet losses suffered during the German blitzkrieg known as Operation Barbarossa three years earlier.