The Red Army beat the Nazis

The Soviet Union delivered the decisive blow to the Nazi War Machine and won the war in Europe.

A Soviet Soldier smiles as he carries a beheaded statue of Adolf Hitler through the streets of Berlin.

From Operation Barbarossa to the final assault on Berlin, the Red Army was the primary force that dismantled Hitler’s war machine. Soviet forces inflicted 86% of all German military casualties, bearing the brunt of the Nazi offensive and delivering the majority of the counter-strikes that broke the Wehrmacht.

At Stalingrad, the Nazi advance was halted. At Kursk, it was reversed. In Berlin, it was ended. It was Soviet troops who raised the Red Banner over the Reichstag, symbolizing the fall of fascism.

While Western Allies opened a second front in 1944, the USSR had already pushed the Germans back across thousands of miles, liberating Eastern Europe city by city. The scale of the Soviet sacrifice is without parallel: over 27 million Soviet lives lost, entire regions devastated—but never defeated.

This was not just a Soviet victory—it was a victory for all humanity. And it was earned, first and foremost, by the unwavering strength and sacrifice of the Red Army.

History will remember who carried the weight of this war. The Soviet Union did not merely fight Nazism—it destroyed it.