Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials in order to keep her own economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away, alongside its warnings to Argentina...
...only did the Germans lose two more campaigns-in the Baltic States and northern Italy-but on the western front they were fighting another battle which was going badly for them...
Another Russian campaign pushed through to victory. Last week on the shores of the Baltic it partially destroyed two German Armies (the 16th and 18th), and even better to the Russians-it secured the Baltic States for Russia...
...ships were sunk by Red Fleet aircraft before they got to sea. The seizure of Tallinn (directly opposite Helsinki) was a great naval victory, for it pave the Red Fleet control of the Gulf of Finland and, after three years' virtual blockade, a chance to operate in the Baltic. The Red Fleet seized the opportunity at once, and landed marines who captured Paldiski, west of Tallinn...
North of Zakharov, in turn, the Third White Russian Army pressed against the easternmost reaches of East Prussia. Still farther north the First Baltic Army pushed deep into southern Latvia, to within 20 miles of Riga. The Germans said the Russians were driving with 40 divisions. In any event, the largest land army in the world was again on the move, its spearheads only 325 miles from Berlin...