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Illustration: Together with Yugoslav partisans
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· Day 1217 of 1418

Together with Yugoslav partisans

Belgrade

On 20 October 1944 Soviet troops and the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Army freed Belgrade. And in the far north, on 25 October, the Norwegian town of Kirkenes was liberated, the first in Norway.

Street fighting in Belgrade went on for almost a week. Soviet and Yugoslav soldiers fought side by side, and the people met them with flowers. Soviet soldiers killed freeing the city lie in the Cemetery of the Liberators of Belgrade.

In those same days, in the far north, the Red Army drove the enemy off the Kola Peninsula and freed northern Norway.

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Chapter 41 · October 1944

Beyond the homeland

Riga was freed on 13 October. Together with Yugoslav partisans the Red Army freed Belgrade. In the far north the enemy was driven out of the Arctic, and heavy fighting began in Hungary and East Prussia.