Russian front

Nazi Germany's nemesis

The Russian front refers to the Eastern Front of World War II, where Nazi Germany fought the Soviet Union—the deadliest theater of the war.

The phrase evokes brutal conditions, massive casualties, and freezing temperatures.

Being "sent to the Russian front" was a fate dreaded by German soldiers, making it a byword for harsh punishment or hopeless assignments: One more mistake and they'll send you to the Russian front.

Operation BarbarossaNazi Soviet invasion
WehrmachtNazi Germany's armed forces
StalingradRenamed Soviet industrial city
Red ArmySoviet ground forces
trenchesElongated ground excavations

winter · snow · siege · Leningrad · Moscow · tanks · artillery · Kursk · partisans · frozen · mud · retreat · advance · casualties · blitzkrieg · Soviet · Nazi · occupation

Opposites

wwii theater of operations

Russian frontWestern Front

Franco-Belgian combat zone

Normandy · France · Western Europe · Pacific War · North Africa

warfare conditions

Russian frontcold war

Hostility without open fighting

climate and terrain conditions

Russian frontPacific islands

Archipelagos in largest ocean

desert warfare · jungle warfare

Family

Russian, Russia, Russification, front, fronts, frontal, frontally, fronted, fronting

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Rated PG