Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pashure pokufambira mberi kunoparadza kwokutanga, Wehrmacht yakatambura kukundwa kwayo kwokutanga muhondo paMoscow. VaGermany navavakanga vabatana navo vakaedza muna 1942 kupfuurira kumaodzanyemba, kuCaucasus. Pashure pemwedzi mitanhatu yokurwa, paStalingrad vakakundwa zvakakomba. Pakupera kwa1943, pashure peKursk
Muna 1944, mauto eSoviet Red Army akawana mukana wekukunda kukunda kukuru, kwakaguma nekufambira mberi kwemauto eSoviet muEastern Europe muna 1944 uye pamusoro peGermany muna 1945, yakapedziswa neHondo yeBerlin. Hondo yokurwisana neUSSR yakaparira kurasikirwa noupenyu (vose vari vaviri vanhuwo zvavo navauto), pamwero mukuru zvikuru kupfuura dzimwe nyika dzose muhondo yacho. Pashure pokuguma kwehondo muEurope uye kubhomba kweatomu kweAmerica paHiroshima, USSR yakabatanidzwa muhondo mukurwisana neJapan. Soviet Union, somumwe wavakundi vakuru, yakawana imwe yezvigaro zvechigarire muUnited Nations Security Council. Pashure pehondo, nharaunda yesimba reSoviet yakawedzerwa kuti ifukidze rutivi rukuru rweEastern Europe, yakanyoreswa zviri pamutemo muWarsaw Pact. Soviet Union yakasvika pakurangarirwa somumwe wamasimba makuru maviri eHondo Yemashoko.