The Red Army, specifically the army of the 2nd Ukrainian front of Marshall Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, with the participation of the units of the Romanian Royal Army liberated the city of Brno on 26th of April 1945 in the Bratislava-Brno operation.
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