After the magnificent victory in the East, Stalin concentrated his efforts on the western front. The situation was at a standstill as De Gaulle had assembled his armies to Frankfurt and the Soviet troops were being gathered in Berlin.
However, in December 1945 Stalin finally gave orders to his generals to move against Frankfurt and France's main army. Only couple days later the Soviet generals launched a major attack, that included the 1st, 3rd, 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 18th, 19th, 24th, 25th and 26th Armor Divisions, from Berlin. This operation was so massive that it could not be hidden from the French, so they were well prepared to welcome the Soviet troops.
In January 5th 1946 the world witnessed the greatest and largest battle ever fought in human history. The Soviet Army consisted of eleven Armor Divisions, approximately 500,000 soldiers, as the French had quantitative advantage having about one million soldiers in form of 17 Infantry Divisions, two Artillery Batteries and one Cavalry Division stationed at Frankfurt.
The battle was fought outside of Frankfurt on the banks of Elbe and it began when the French made their stand against the Soviet Army trying to prevent them from crossing the river. The battle lasted seven days as De Gaulle's Infantry Division after another failed to stop the Soviet blizzard. After six days French casualties were eleven Infantry Divisions, two Artillery Batteries and around 500,000 men as the supreme Soviet Army had only lost about 30,000 men.
Therefore on the seventh day of the battle of Elbe the remaining French troops withdrew back to Frankfurt and the Soviets claimed the greatest victory in military history.
The Soviet Armor Divisions pursued the hammered French armies all the way back to Frankfurt and with heavy air support the city fell quickly in front of the ruthless Soviet troops.
In July 1st 1946 Finland was peacefully attached to the USSR as an autonomous Grand Duchy. The nation seeked protection from the USSR as the world was in chaos.
After the great victory in Frankfurt. The USSR had cemented her position as the mightiest nation in the world.