Battle of Dezarus

The Battle of Dezarus, designed the Dezarus Strategic Offensive Operation by Syndicalist Russia, and also known as the Fall of Dezarus was a major offensive of the European theatre of World War II.

Following the successful Lutsk-Ternopil Offensive of January-February of 1946 the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line of 60k east of Dezarus. On 2 March, Dezarussiya and the Balkan League established their defense plan for the city with Operation Kalsovsky. The first defensive preparations at the outskirts of Dezarus were made on 12 March, under the newly appointed commander of Army Group Centre, Field Marshal Konstantin Vaclonovich.

When the Russian offensive resumed on April 10th, two Russian army groups attacked Dezarus from the East and the North while a third overran Serbian positions south of Dezarus. Before the main battle in Dezarus commenced, the Syndicalist Army encircled the city after several successful battles. On April 16th the Syndicalist army broke through Army Group Centre and advanced towards the northern suburbs of Dezarus. On 19 April General Nicholas von Allenstein assumed command of the forces within Dezarus. The garrison consisted of several depleted Serbian divions and depleted/disorganized Dezarussian divisions along with poorly trained civilians. Over the course of the next week the Russian Army gradually took the entire city.

Before the battle was over, Vovannslav II and several of his followers died supposedly fighting to the death. The city's garrison garrison surrendered on April 26th but the fighting continued until the end of the war in Europe on 21st March 1947 in the form of partisan activities. Some of the Dezarussian units continued to fight with the United Balkan Army in the defense of Serbia and later fought westward to surrender to the Western Allies rather than to the Syndicalists.