Dukla Pass Victims Day in Slovakia
Dukla Pass Victims Day in Slovakia is held on October 6. 1944. This event in the first decade of the month October is annual.
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The operation began on September 8. It took the Soviets three days to take Krosno (it was captured on September 11). One of the biggest battles in the pass took place on and around Hill 534 in the northwest of the town of Dukla ; the battle for the capture of this hill lasted from September 10 to 20, and during that period the control of the hill changed more than 20 times]. The town of Dukla was taken on September 21. The area of the former Czechoslovak state border, heavily fortified by the Germans, was captured on October 6; it took the Soviet forces almost a month to reach Slovakia.
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