Liberation of Belgrade and capture of Budapest (1944-1945)

Soviet tanks and artillery fire at the enemy on the outskirts of Belgrade in 1944. A wounded man is evacuated on a stretcher.

Staff officers observe the progress of the battle.

Artillerymen fire direct fire.

A battery of rocket launchers fires.

Smoking ruins of residential buildings in Belgrade.

Panorama of part of a city block (top).

The Triumphal Arch with a portrait of Stalin and a greeting to the Red Army.

Faces of Belgrade residents greeting the Red Army.

Soviet troops march through the streets of Belgrade, people throw flowers at them.

Views of Budapest before the assault.

The body of Soviet parliamentarian Captain Ostapenko, killed by the Nazis in December 1944. The funeral of Captain Ostapenko.

The grave of Captain Ostapenko.

An artillery division begins artillery preparation.

Soviet aircraft drop bombs on German positions.

Tanks and artillery in the attack on the Budapest enemy group in early January 1945. Infantry supported by tanks reaches the outskirts of Budapest, fires at the enemy.

Artillery shells German strongholds.

Soviet troops fight in the streets of Budapest.

Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya.

Malinovsky greets generals and officers after arriving at headquarters.

A headquarters officer works with maps.

Faces of captured German generals delivered to Malinovsky's headquarters.

Interrogation of captured generals.

A captured German general indicates the positions of German and Hungarian troops on the bank of the Danube on a map.

Troops cross the Danube along crossings built by sailors of the Danube flotilla.

View of one of the crossings.

Tanks and infantry land on the opposite bank of the Danube.

Soviet tanks and artillery fight in the street in the western districts of Budapest on February 18, 1945. The face of a gun commander giving commands.

Street fighting in Budapest.

Soviet soldiers fight for buildings, take up positions in destroyed houses.

Machine gun crews and submachine gunners fire from window openings.

Artillery fires at the enemy.

A broken mirror falls.

Artillery and tanks fire at enemy strongholds on the streets of Budapest.

A view of a burning city block.