Eastern Railway Station - The Matrix Games version of East Front II

Siege of Budapest, Hungary, Winter 1944-45. During the siege of the hungarian capital's left side, the exhausted soviet besiegers employed also a Rumanian Corps belonged to the newly formed Rumanian Army: the Seventh Infantry Corps, leaded by the General Nicholae Sova. The soviet Marshall Rodion Malinowsky, responsable for the siege operations, ordered to the main part of Sova's corp to assault the area around the Eastern Railway Station in Pest, defended by "demoralized and untrained" Hungarian troops. Whereas in most istances the Hungarians had fought halfheartedly during the siege, here faced with the hated Rumanians they fought savagely. The fighting started on february 14th and traveled from track to track, trough the wagons and into the station. Finally the battle was over three days later: the Rumanian captured the Station, but suffered 11.000 casualties out of their 36.000 men force.