What 1943 WWII battle between Germany and the Soviet Union remains to this day the largest series of armored clashes ever?
Military history of the Soviet Union significant German forces at the Battle of Stalingrad, which ended in February 1943 and reversed the tide of the war in Europe. In the summer of 1943, following the Battle of Kursk, the Red Army seized the strategic initiative for the remainder of the war. All Soviet territory was liberated from Axis occupation by 1944. After having driven the Axis armies out of Eastern Europe, in May 1945 the Red Army launched its assault on Berlin, which effectively ended World War II in Europe (see V-E Day). Much of Eastern Europe and great parts of the Soviet Union were devastated
Military history of the Soviet Union 1941 the majority of Soviet equipment was obsolete and inferior to that of the Wehrmacht. In the initial period of the war, in the face of catastrophic losses, the Red Army drastically scaled down its armored formations, with the tank brigade becoming the largest commonly deployed armored unit, and reverted to a simpler mode of operations. Nevertheless, the revolutionary doctrines of the 1930s, modified by combat experience, were eventually successfully used at the front starting in 1943 after the Red Army regained the initiative. Following the death of Lenin, the Soviet Union was enmeshed in a struggle for succession that