Word: baltic
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...ready for Bolshevism and the November Revolution. She was made the first People's Commissar for Social Welfare. Then the "Red Rose of the Recolution" fell in love with a huge, illiterate, black-bearded sailor named Dybenko, who had led the revolt of the Baltic Fleet. In the midst of revolutionary history, the two made a counterrevolution of their own, went off to the lush and lazy Crimea for a prolonged weekend. Alexandra Mihailovna was almost...
...foreign hands-Russian as well as Prussian and Austrian. But the Kremlin's long memory has not forgotten that General Sosnkowski and his followers are the remnant of the old anti-Soviet regime. Once led by Marshal Pilsudski, they had dreamt of a Poland reaching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, had refused the Curzon Line in 1920 and snatched Vilna from Lithuania...
...From the Baltic to the Black Sea, at least a dozen armies hammered relentlessly at the retreating foe. Ten-mile gains a day were not rare, nor the capture of 200 to 300 villages. Secondary German bastions fell one after another...
...Wehrmacht fought for Pskov with skill and fury: beyond it lay Estonia and Latvia, and then the Baltic, washing Germany's own shores. But not even Pskov's fate worried the Germans as much as the Russian threat to the Vitebsk-Rogachev line, and to Minsk, the kingpin of the German defense system in the north...
...Express-Train Tempo." Berlin's report to Sweden said: "The development of the Baltic and White Russian fronts is assuming express-train tempo. If the Russians cannot be halted along the Pskov-Polotsk line, sensational events can be expected in the Baltics in the nearest future...