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SAT 06 NOV 1943War day 1,528Eastern Front
Kiev changed hands again. The next objective, according to the Red Army’s own positions, lay farther west.
On 6 November 1943, Soviet forces recaptured Kiev. The city had been taken by German troops in September 1941, after Nazi Germany and its Axis partners invaded the Soviet Union. The reversal came more than two years later, and it was not presented simply as a change of flag. The Red Army had established bridgeheads at Kiev and southwest of Kremenchug for an offensive intended to liberate western Ukraine. The city’s recapture was one part of that larger westward effort.
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