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| 1944 February |
| | | After relieving Leningrad, the Russians begin to drive the Germans back on all fronts | |
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| 1944 October 11 |
| | | Hungary signs an armistice with the USSR | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a Soviet labour camp for critizing Stalin in a private correspondence | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, premiered in New York, derives from music written for or inspired by films | |
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| 1945 February 4 |
| | | Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill meet at Yalta to discuss Allied post-war plans | |
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| 1945 February 13 |
| | | Stalin agrees at Yalta to declare war on Japan after the end of the European war | |
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| 1945 February 11 |
| | | Stalin, at Yalta, promises free elections in post-war eastern Europe | |
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| 1945 August 8 |
| | | The USSR declares war on Japan, two days after an atom bomb has been dropped on Hiroshima | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Sergei Eisenstein completes Part 2 of his intended epic film trilogy Ivan the Terrible | |
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| 1948 June 24 |
| | | The Soviet Union imposes a blockade on Berlin by denying the other powers access through the land corridor to the city | |
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