Eastern Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the battle fronts between lands controlled by Germany and land controlled by Russia or the Soviet Union. A contested armed frontier during a war is called a "front". The Eastern Front of World War II was the bloodiest and largest theater of warfare in history.
There is also a Western Front in World War I and World War II.
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“All the morning we had heard the sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting sound to walk by, filling the whole air, that of the sea dashing against the land, heard several miles inland. Instead of having a dog to growl before your door, to have an Atlantic Ocean to growl for a whole Cape!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Carry hate
In front of you and harmony behind.
Be deaf to music and to beauty blind.
Win war. Rise bloody, maybe not too late
For having first to civilize a space
Wherein to play your violin with grace.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)