Eastern Front (World War I)
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The Eastern Front was a theatre of war during World War I in Central and, primarily, Eastern Europe. The term is in contrast to the Western Front. Despite the geographical separation, the events in the two theatres strongly influenced one another. In Russian sources, the war was sometimes called the Second Fatherland War.
Read more about Eastern Front (World War I): Theatre of War, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917–1918, Casualties
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