During World War II, in the Continuation War, the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive was a strategic offensive by the Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts. The operation ended in stalemate. The Soviets captured most of East Karelia and Vyborg (Viipuri), and were also successful in drawing further German forces away from Army Group Centre, weakening the German position in Belorussia to some exten...
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During World War II, in the Continuation War, the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive was a strategic offensive by the Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts. The operation ended in stalemate. The Soviets captured most of East Karelia and Vyborg (Viipuri), and were also successful in drawing further German forces away from Army Group Centre, weakening the German position in Belorussia to some extent before the launch of Operation Bagration. However they did not achieve the objective of Kymi River and the destruction of the Finnish army. This was the largest operation in scope and scale ever fought in the Nordic countries.
The operations of each Front had their own limited operations
In January 1944, Soviet forces had raised the Siege of Leningrad and driven the German Army Group North to the Narva-Lake Ilmen-Pskov line. Finland had queried for peace conditions in February, but the given conditions were considered impossible to fulfill....
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