June 22 1944: The Third Anniversary of the beginning of the German Invasion, along the border of Occupied Belarus the Red Army musters for what would become the largest counterattack of the War in the East: Operation: Bagration, a counter attack that would see the Liberation of Belarus and the near destruction of the Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre. For the Red Army it would go down in history as one of its greatest victories, for the Wehrmacht it would be the beginning of the end as the Red Army went on to Berlin. Operation Bagration
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