   {{infobox military conflict | date =  â () | conflict = eastern front | partof = world war ii | image = 300px | caption = 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, winter 1943â1944; killings of jews by german einsatzgruppen in ukraine; wilhelm keitel signing the german instrument of surrender; soviet troops in the battle of stalingrad | place = europe east of germany: central, eastern and northern europe; in later stages southern europe (balkans), germany and austria | result =decisive allied victory, end of world war ii in europe (concurrently with the western front), destruction of nazi germany * soviet union occupies eastern europe and establishes pro-soviet communist governments in countries including bulgaria, czechoslovakia, hungary, poland, romania, and east 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. |territory=partition of germany * borders of poland adjusted. | combatant1 = axis powers germany's allies, in total, provided a significant number of troops and material to the front. there were also numerous foreign units recruited by germany, notably the spanish blue division and the legion of french volunteers against bolshevism. (until 1944) (until 1943) bulgaria (until 1944) (until 1944) ----axis puppet states | combatant2 = allies   poland  czechoslovakia (from 1943)  yugoslavia (from 1944)  tuva (until 1944)toomas alatalu. tuva: a state reawakens. soviet studies, vol. 44, no. 5 (1992), pp. 881â895. ----former axis powers or co-belligerents (from 1944) {{flagicon ima
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