Advancing Russian troops dance during an unguarded moment in Belorussia in 1944. Operation Bagration, in which the Soviets took back Belarus and parts of Poland from Nazi Germany from June to August 1944, utterly destroyed three German armies. Casualty estimates ranged from about 530,000 to over 1.4 million.
Dancing for the Dead originally appeared on My[confined]Space on August 2, 2009.