#Victory81 🏅 On February 13, 1945, the Red Army completed the liberation of Budapest from Nazi occupation. Nazi Germany had occupied Hungary, its ally, in order to prevent it from withdrawing from the war. In the Hungarian capital, Soviet forces encircled a major enemy grouping of ten divisions and proceeded to eliminate it. In fierce urban combat, Soviet assault units cleared buildings floor by floor, artillery fired at point-blank range, and air support struck enemy positions. Of the 188,000