It looked the war was getting different

As a matter of fact, the year of 1943 actually became a crucial point of the war. A character of the war was changing dramatically in favor of the Soviet Union. Chronologically that year presented with annihilation of the 6^th German Army at Stalingrad. Then the battle of Kursk followed and actually proved that Germany had lost its initiative in the war. This battle started on 5^th of July with the German attack the Kursk salient, and progressed at Prokhorovka village on 12^th of July with a mass tank battle when the Soviet counter-offensive attack at the Kursk salient began.

On August 3^rd the Operation Belgorod – Kharkov started which is considered as the concluding phase of the battle of Kursk. The results of this unseen before German tragedy became:

Kiev was liberated on 6^th of November and became a reasonable accord before the International Conference in Teheran. This conference outlined the fate of Adolph Hitler and fascist Germany. Ally leaders of the Soviet Union, the USA and Great Britain met together to decide on the fate of this aggressive German policy.

1944 became a memorial year for millions of Ukrainians as the German Army Groups were heavily defeated in a series of ten military operations. The battle for Ukraine lasted for nearly four months and resulted in the following successful operations:

1. Operation Zhitomir-Berdichev, took place in December - January;

2. Operation Kirovograd, liberated the town in January;

3. Operation Korsun-Shevchenko, took under Soviet control these areas during January - February;

4. Operation Rowno-Lucky, liberated these areas during 27 Jan.-11 Feb.;

5. Operation Nikopol-Krivoi Rog, 30 Jan.-29 Feb.;

6. Operation Proskurov-Chernovtsy, 4 Mar.-17 Apr.;

7. Operation Uman-Botoşani, 4 Mar.-17 Apr.;

8. Operation Bereznegovatoye-Snigirevka, 6-18 Mar.;

9. Operation Polesie, 15 Mar.-5 Apr.;

10. Operation Odessa, liberated the famous Russian city in April

The same year ended the siege of Leningrad and liberated Novgorod from the German occupation. In April – May the Soviet troops exhausted and beat Germans in the Crimean Peninsular and liberated Sebastopol. During the summer of 1944 German troops were loosing one after another all Byelorussian towns and villages. Bobruisk and Vitebsk, Orsha and Mogilev, Polotsk and Vilna, Belostock and Brest drove Germans to the place where they started this war.

Liberation of European countries began when Rumania withdrew its war to the USSR and declared a war on Germany. The USSR declared war on Bulgaria, and liberated Sofia. Soviet and Yugoslav Liberation Armies joined and liberated Belgrade from the occupation. The war was coming closer and closer to the heart of Nazism, Berlin.

The Yalta Conference took place on the 4^th of February, 1945 and synchronized allied actions against the Nazi Germany. Despite the German counter-offensive attack at the Lake of Balaton in Hungary, the whole world understood that the days of Nazi Germany were coming to the end. During April, Soviet armies advanced in Vienna direction and the modern Austrian capital was liberated from the occupation.