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Source: State University of Management – Official website of the State –
On March 26, 1944, on the 1009th day of the Great Patriotic War, Soviet troops reached the state border of the USSR with Romania.
This significant event occurred as a result of the actions of the 2nd Ukrainian Front during the Uman-Botoşani offensive operation under the command of the newly-minted Marshal Ivan Konev. Let us recall that Konev received a promotion for the successful Korsun-Shevchenkovsk operation, which ended on February 17, that is, just a month before the Red Army reached the border.
Border posts were once again installed on the 85-kilometer section of the Soviet border, and this section of the border was taken under the protection of the 24th Border Regiment, the same one that guarded this line in 1941. Regiment veteran Boris Sichan recalls:
“You can’t imagine the excitement in the regiment when it became clear that we were going to the same section of the border that we had guarded before the war. After we crossed the Dniester at Mogilev-Podolsky, many border guards took off their hats and caps and pulled out of their kit bags the green caps that they had carefully preserved since 1941.”
Now the Red Army faced the task of liberating a not very friendly Europe from fascism: Romania under the dictatorship of Hitler’s ally John Antonescu, Hungary with the puppet regime of Ferenc Szalasi, Bulgaria, ruled by a pro-German regency council…
There were still many large-scale operations and fierce battles ahead. In the meantime, Soviet troops were gradually reaching the borders of the Motherland and in other sections of the front: – On July 20, units of the 1st Belorussian Front crossed the border with Poland; – On July 21, troops of the Karelian Front reached the border with Finland; – On August 17, units of the 3rd Belorussian Front entered German territory; – On November 7, the western state border of the USSR was completely restored.
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