Word: baltic
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...Europe that, when the wind is from the south, people there can sometimes smell the smoke of burning Berlin. And always there are hundreds of travelers and fugitives who have just seen with their own eyes and heard with their own ears what is going on across the Baltic...
...More than ever, Red submarines could prey on Germany's shipping in the Baltic...
...Govorov's victory also had a heavy political tinge. It foreshadowed the reabsorption of the three Baltic states within Russia, after a 22-year interlude of independence. It presaged a near test of Russia's amended constitution (see p. 34). It strengthened the hand of the peace advocates in Finland. Above all, it put a new strain on Germany's morale-and that was a military gain as well...
Already reports this week spoke of a wholesale, panicky flight of Germans and home-grown Nazis from the Baltic States to the Reich. Refugees clung to the roofs of overcrowded trains. In Riga, ships were packed with evacuees...
...five youngest republics grew out of the war. When Hitler attacked Poland, the Red Army moved westward, converting the three independent Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into Soviet Republics. There was a solemn plebiscite. Next, Russia took Bessarabia back from Rumania (she had lost it in World War I) and renamed it the Moldavian Republic. Finally the Russian part of the Karelian Isthmus, plus a slice of Finland conquered in 1940, was set up as the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal...