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World War II: Soviet Red Army troops liberate Hungary from German occupation.

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Red Army

Soviet army and air force from 1918 to 1946

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars to oppose the military…
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Hungary

Country in Central Europe

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west.…
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Government of National Unity (Hungary)

1944–1945 Nazi puppet government of Hungary

The Government of National Unity was a Nazi-backed puppet government of Hungary, which ruled the German-occupied Kingdom of Hungary during World War II in Eastern Europe. After the joint coup d’état with which the Nazis and the Arrow Cross Party overthrew the government of the…
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