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1944
Soviet General Konev establishes a new western border for the
USSR
On this day in 1944, General Ivan Konev, one of the Soviet
Union's most outstanding officers, pursues an offensive against
40,000 German soldiers to capture the East Galician city of Lvov.
When the battle was over, 30,000 Germans were dead, and the USSR
had a new western border.
Joseph Stalin had declared that he wanted the western border of
the Soviet Union to be pushed back across the River Bug,
territory that was part of prewar Poland, but was now occupied
German territory. General Konev, who had led the first offensive
against the Germans when they invaded the Soviet Union in 1941
(and who had created the "Konev ambush," a strategy by which
troops retreat from the center of a battle area, only to allow
troops from the flanks to close into the breach, used to defeat
German General Heinz Guderian's tank offensive against Moscow),
led the Red Army's new attack westward. He encircled 40,000
German soldiers in the town of Brody. After seven days, 30,000
German soldiers were dead, and Lvov was Soviet-occupied territory
and would remain a part of the new postwar Soviet map.
General Konev would go on to cross Poland into Germany and,
meeting up with U.S. and other Soviet forces, enter Berlin to see
the final downfall of the Axis power.
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