Eighty years ago today, on January 17, 1945 (the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month), the Soviet Army captured Warsaw during World War II.

Soviet troops enter Warsaw.

After the U.S. and British Allies landed in Normandy in June 1944, the Germans were in danger of being attacked by the Soviet and Allied forces.

On January 14, 1945, the Soviet army commanded the Marshal Zhukov to launch an offensive in the direction of Warsaw, in the southern direction of Poznań, to divide the Ninth Army of the German Army. On January 16, the Soviet army deported the German army to the opposite bank of the Vesuvian River and crossed the Vesuvian River north of Warsaw. The Soviet tanks stormed 80 kilometers within a day and entered the area of Sochachev, cutting off the German Warsaw Army's retreat. At the same time, the Polish People's Army also collaborated with the Soviet Army.

On January 17, 1945, the 47th and 61st Armies of the Soviet Army, together with the 1st Army of the Polish Army, liberated Warsaw and won the "Battle of Warsaw". On June 17th, representatives of various Polish parties held a meeting in Moscow, and on the 23rd, an agreement was reached to form a unified Polish interim government based on the interim government and absorb other parties. "