Eastern Front (World War II)

Table columns:
Date
Location
Result
Territorial changes
Axis powers  Germany[1]  Romania (until 1944)  Italy (until 1943)  Hungary  Bulgaria (from 5th until 9th September 1944) Axis puppet states  Slovakia  Croatia Co-belligerents  Finland (until 1944)
Adolf Hitler (commander-in-chief)  Walther von Brauchitsch  Fedor von Bock  Franz Halder  Kurt Zeitzler  Erich von Manstein  Heinz Guderian  Heinrich Himmler  Gerd von Rundstedt  Ion Antonescu  Benito Mussolini  Miklós Horthy  Ferenc Szálasi  Boris III  Jozef Tiso  Ante Pavelić  Risto Ryti
1941 3,767,000 troops 1943 3,933,000 troops 1945 1,960,000 troops

Table rows:
cells: Eastern Front
Part of the European theatre of World War II
Clockwise from top left: Soviet Il-2 ground attack aircraft in Berlin sky; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, December 1943; Killings of Jews by German Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender; Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
Date 22 June 1941 – 25 May 1945[3] (3 years, 11 months and 3 days) Location Europe east of Germany: Central and Eastern Europe, in later stages Germany and Austria Result Soviet victory Soviet Union occupies Central, Eastern, Northeastern and Southeastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet communist puppet governments in countries including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Eastern 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. Territorial changes Partition of Germany Borders of Poland changed.
22 June 1941 – 25 May 1945[3] (3 years, 11 months and 3 days)
Europe east of Germany: Central and Eastern Europe, in later stages Germany and Austria
Soviet victory Soviet Union occupies Central, Eastern, Northeastern and Southeastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet communist puppet governments in countries including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Eastern 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.
Partition of Germany Borders of Poland changed.
Belligerents
Allies  Soviet Union  Poland  Czechoslovakia (from 1943)  Yugoslavia (from 1944)  Tuva (until 1944)[2] Former Axis powers or co-belligerents  Romania (from 1944)  Bulgaria (from 1944)  Finland (from 1944) Aerial and naval only  United States  United Kingdom  Free France (1943–45)
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Stalin (commander-in-chief)  Georgy Zhukov  Boris Shaposhnikov  Aleksandr Vasilevsky  Semyon Timoshenko  Aleksei Antonov  Ivan Konev  Ivan Bagramyan  Konstantin Rokossovsky  Vasily Chuikov  Nikita Khrushchev  Josip Broz Tito  Zygmunt Berling  Ludvik Svoboda  Michael I of Romania  Nicolae Rădescu  Kimon Georgiev  C. G. E. Mannerheim
Strength
1941 2,680,000 troops 14,000,000 reserves (former conscripts) 1943 6,724,000 troops 1945 6,410,000 troops
Casualties and losses
See below

Questions about this table:
originalText: who won the war on the eastern front
answer: answerTexts: Soviet Union