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World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.

Historical image related to World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army. from January 18, 1945

Kraków

City in Poland

Kraków, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 (2023), with approximately 8 million additional people living…
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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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