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192:Walter Model
135:Soviet Union
121:Belligerents
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55:World War II
49:Part of the
2067:Phase III:
1962:Д. Муриев,
1842:Erhard Raus
1748:Pavel Belov
1570:named the '
1082:Ostra Brama
609:Gorky Blitz
604:3rd Kharkov
520:2nd Kharkov
422:1st Kharkov
417:Sea of Azov
110:in Courland
2219:Categories
1247:2nd Guards
1232:Baltic Sea
1196:Background
1157:, was the
1121:Doppelkopf
1114:operations
1105:Schoenfeld
1058:operations
998:Königsberg
971:2nd Baltic
961:Dukla Pass
939:Studzianki
906:operations
733:2nd Baltic
728:Dukla Pass
715:Doppelkopf
687:2nd Crimea
631:2nd Donbas
621:1st Donbas
598:Polar Star
548:Stalingrad
432:Sevastopol
427:1st Crimea
370:1st Baltic
354:Barbarossa
331:Baltic Sea
2055:www.km.ru
1985:soldat.ru
1833:Reinhardt
1753:67th Army
1744:61st Army
1693:22nd Army
1659:33rd Army
1650:51st Army
1641:43rd Army
1590:in 1991.
1516:See also
1476:Lithuania
1453:Aftermath
1208:Leningrad
1203:Wehrmacht
1112:Wehrmacht
966:Gumbinnen
913:Bagration
758:Gumbinnen
703:Bagration
542:Sinyavino
526:Case Blue
411:Leningrad
336:Black Sea
2207:Politics
2072:Archived
1988:Archived
1774:8th Army
1770:(parts)
1499:Courland
1392:Saaremaa
1290:Schaulen
1282:Šiauliai
1167:Red Army
1159:military
1135:Hannibal
1128:Solstice
951:Radzymin
924:Belostok
904:Red Army
803:Solstice
763:Budapest
753:Courland
743:Debrecen
738:Belgrade
660:2nd Kiev
532:Caucasus
505:Demyansk
466:Chechnya
400:1st Kiev
261:aircraft
248:218,622
209:Strength
88:Location
2183:Germany
2169:Portals
2037:became
2025:became
1802:Grasser
1768:Govorov
1544:, 1944.
1407:Russian
1388:Hiiumaa
1380:Russian
1369:Estonia
1357:Russian
1330:Russian
1308:Battles
1216:Estonia
1173:in the
1165:of the
1065:Tempest
1049:Breslau
1032:Silesia
1020:Kolberg
1008:Samland
934:Osovets
919:Vilnius
797:Breslau
792:Silesia
697:Karelia
649:Dnieper
515:Bamberg
456:Finland
405:Tallinn
265:30,834
252:or sick
239:61,468
149:Germany
108:trapped
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1786:German
1599:Soviet
1472:German
1302:Stavka
1286:German
1245:, and
1224:Poland
1183:Soviet
1163:Fronts
1098:Pęcice
1093:Warsaw
1025:Danzig
981:Poznań
891:Poland
841:Prague
835:Berlin
824:Vienna
641:Lenino
483:Lyuban
448:Moscow
437:Rostov
395:Odessa
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98:Result
1274:XXXIX
1222:into
956:Memel
682:Narva
655:Nevel
615:Kursk
581:Iskra
510:Kholm
494:Rzhev
461:Kerch
442:Gorky
375:Brody
360:Brest
256:tanks
2117:ISBN
2096:ISBN
1983:See
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1524:112
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1243:51st
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1088:Lwów
769:1945
666:1944
574:1943
560:Mars
477:1942
390:Uman
347:1941
273:and
259:779
254:522
80:Date
1338:3rd
1226:by
275:MIA
271:WIA
267:KIA
250:WIA
245:MIA
243:or
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