Stalin's ten blows

Soviet gains, mid-1943 to end of 1944.

In Soviet historiography, Stalin's ten blows[a] (Russian: Десять сталинских ударов, romanizedDesyat' stalinskikh udarov) were the ten successful strategic offensives in Europe conducted by the Red Army in 1944 during World War II. The Soviet offensives drove the Axis forces from Soviet territory and precipitated Nazi Germany's collapse.
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