✦ History

Battle of Romania

1944

Result Allied victory

Soviet armies defeated German and Romanian forces in Romania in 1944. A royal coup then took Romania out of the Axis alliance, and Romanian troops joined the Soviets against Germany.

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Battles 2

September 5 – October 8, 1944
Battle of Turda Rodion Malinovsky, Gheorghe Avramescu
September 14–19, 1944
Battle of Păuliș Romanian–Soviet victory

Key commanders

Allies 4

Joseph Stalin military commander Rodion Malinovsky military commander Michael I of Romania military commander Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin military commander

Axis 3

Ion Antonescu military commander Johannes Frießner military commander Maximilian Fretter-Pico military commander

Kingdom of Romania and allies 2

Rodion Malinovsky military commander Gheorghe Avramescu military commander