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...world. Although some units have been pulled back into Russia as the Soviet empire has shrunk, many remain virtually marooned in far-flung outposts defending a U.S.S.R. that no longer exists: 260,000 Soviet troops in eastern Germany, 45,000 in Poland, 120,000 in the independent Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The Fourth Army remains billeted in Azerbaijan, its unhappy assignment to prevent bloodshed between militant Azerbaijanis and Armenians -- two peoples who are no longer under the aegis of Moscow...
Part of the explanation could be traced to last August, when the botched Soviet coup gave the Baltic republics the final opening to bolt from the U.S.S.R. The U.S. dragged its feet in recognizing their independence, and Bush's critics wondered why he had taken so long. In diplomatic terms, Bush's ! caution was understandable, but it hurt him among conservative Republicans, who are looming ever larger in White House political thinking as rightist political columnist Patrick Buchanan prepares for a presidential...
Although the precedent for secession has already been set by the Baltic states, the Ukraine's size makes its bid for independence important, according to Saroyan...
...suburb only 15 miles west of Moscow. Ever since Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa at 4 a.m. on June 22, 1941, his forces had swept through Stalin's European empire. They took the half of Poland that had been partitioned to the Soviet Union in 1939, stripped off the Baltic states that Moscow had annexed just a year before, seized Belorussia, and were marching south into Ukraine. Stalin's generals were stunned. They had believed the idea of blitzkrieg was an unreliable bourgeois strategy. No one had expected such a lightning conquest...
Leningrad was almost completely isolated: to the west was the Baltic Sea, to the east Lake Ladoga, to the south the advancing Wehrmacht, to the north the Finns, who, while not formally allied with Germany, were fighting their own war with the Soviet Union. But the city's defenders kept the enemy at bay and, again, winter helped. Lake Ladoga froze to a thickness that would support an escape route for hundreds of thousands of refugees -- and a way in for food. The Russian counteroffensive that began on Dec. 5, 1941, also relieved pressure on the city. By early...