The war came back over the Carpathians. The Red Army and the Czechoslovak Army Corps attacked towards the Dukla Pass on 8 September 1944 to break through to the insurgents, and it went badly: the battle lasted until 28 October and cost the Soviets more than 10,000 dead and the Czechoslovak corps 935. Kalinov, a village in the far north-east, was the first place in Slovakia liberated, on 21 September 1944. From there the front ground westward all winter; Bratislava was taken on 4 April 1945, and the last fighting on Slovak soil ended only in the final days of April and the first days of May. The war cemeteries and memorials in eastern Slovak towns date from these months, and there are so many of them because the front stood there so long.Vojna sa vrátila cez Karpaty. Červená armáda a 1. československý armádny zbor zaútočili 8. septembra 1944 smerom na Dukliansky priesmyk, aby sa prebili k povstalcom, a dopadlo to zle: bitka trvala do 28. októbra a stála Sovietov vyše 10 000 mŕtvych a československý zbor 935 padlých. Prvou oslobodenou obcou na Slovensku bol Kalinov na samom severovýchode — 21. septembra 1944. Odtiaľ sa front celú zimu ťažko presúval na západ; Bratislavu obsadili 4. apríla 1945 a posledné boje na slovenskom území sa skončili až v posledných aprílových a prvých májových dňoch. Vojnové cintoríny a pamätníky vo východoslovenských mestách pochádzajú z týchto mesiacov a je ich toľko práve preto, že front tam stál tak dlho.
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