| rdfs:comment | - The Eastern Front of the European Theatre of World War II encompassed the conflict in central and eastern Europe from June 22, 1941 to May 8, 1945. It was notorious for its unprecedented ferocity, destruction, and immense loss of life. It resulted in the destruction and partition of Nazi Germany, the rise of the Soviet Union as a military and industrial superpower, and the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe.
- The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Northern, Southern and Central and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. It has been known as the Great Patriotic War (, Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna) in the former Soviet Union and in modern Russia, while in Germany it was called the Eastern Front (), the Eastern Campaign (der Ostfeldzug) or the Russian Campaign (der Rußlandfeldzug).
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| Result | - Soviet victory. Fall of the Nazi Germany.
- Decisive Allied victory, end of World War II in Europe , destruction of Nazi Germany
* Soviet Union occupies Eastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet Communist governments in countries including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany.
* Establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.
* Beginning of the Cold War and the creation of the Iron Curtain.
* The beginning of the Greek Civil War.
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| abstract | - The Eastern Front of the European Theatre of World War II encompassed the conflict in central and eastern Europe from June 22, 1941 to May 8, 1945. It was notorious for its unprecedented ferocity, destruction, and immense loss of life. It resulted in the destruction and partition of Nazi Germany, the rise of the Soviet Union as a military and industrial superpower, and the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. In all Soviet and the majority of Russian sources, the conflict is referred to as the Great Patriotic War (Великая Отечественная война, Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna), and as War against Bolshevism by the Nazis. Some scholars of the conflict use the term Russo-German War, others use Soviet-German War, German-Soviet War or Axis-Soviet War. Some sources include the Invasion of Poland (1939) of 1939 in this World War II theatre but this article concentrates on the much larger conflict which was fought from June 1941 to May 1945 in which the two principal belligerent powers were Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The Russo-Finnish Continuation War may be considered the northern flank of the Eastern Front.
- The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Northern, Southern and Central and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. It has been known as the Great Patriotic War (, Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna) in the former Soviet Union and in modern Russia, while in Germany it was called the Eastern Front (), the Eastern Campaign (der Ostfeldzug) or the Russian Campaign (der Rußlandfeldzug). The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history. They were characterized by unprecedented ferocity, wholesale destruction, mass deportations, and immense loss of life due to combat, starvation, exposure, disease, and massacres. The Eastern Front, as the site of nearly all extermination camps, death marches, ghettos, and the majority of pogroms, was central to the Holocaust. Of the estimated 70 million deaths attributed to World War II, over 30 million, many of them civilian, occurred on the Eastern Front. The Eastern Front was decisive in determining the outcome of World War II, eventually serving as the main reason for Germany's defeat. It resulted in the destruction of the Third Reich, the partition of Germany for nearly half a century and the rise of the Soviet Union as a military and industrial superpower. The two principal belligerent powers were Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, along with their respective allies. Though never engaged in military action in the Eastern Front, the United Kingdom and the United States both provided substantial material aid in the form of the Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union. The joint German–Finnish operations across the northernmost Finnish–Soviet border and in the Murmansk region are considered part of the Eastern Front. In addition, the Soviet–Finnish Continuation War may also be considered the northern flank of the Eastern Front.
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