8 September – 28 October 1944 The Carpathian–Dukla operationKarpatsko-duklianska operácia

On 8 September 1944 the Soviet 38th Army and the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps under General Ludvík Svoboda attacked into the Carpathians with one job: to get through the Dukla Pass and reach the Slovak National Uprising on the other side. It was supposed to take five days to Prešov. It took nearly a month just to reach the border, which the Czechoslovak troops finally crossed on 6 October 1944 — the same day a mine killed General Jaroslav Vedral-Sázavský, commander of the 1st Czechoslovak brigade, two hundred metres inside his own country. Then it got worse. The Germans held every ridge, the autumn rains turned the one road to liquid mud — tanks had to be dragged out of it by twelve pairs of horses — and the operation ground forward valley by valley until it was called off on 28 October 1944.8. septembra 1944 zaútočila sovietska 38. armáda a 1. československý armádny zbor generála Ludvíka Svobodu do Karpát s jedinou úlohou: prejsť Duklianskym priesmykom a spojiť sa so Slovenským národným povstaním na druhej strane. Do Prešova to malo trvať päť dní. Len k hraniciam to trvalo takmer mesiac a československí vojaci ich prekročili 6. októbra 1944 — v ten istý deň zabila mína generála Jaroslava Vedrala-Sázavského, veliteľa 1. čs. brigády, dvesto metrov za hranicou vlastnej krajiny. Potom to bolo ešte horšie. Nemci držali každý hrebeň, jesenné dažde premenili jedinú cestu na tekuté blato — tanky z neho vyťahovalo aj dvanásť párov koní — a operácia sa predierala dolina po doline, kým ju 28. októbra 1944 nezastavili.