Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...making use of an institution as British as mutton pie, followed Foreign Minister Molotov's announcement of wider autonomy for member states of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Feb. 14). It also drove home the point that the Russians are determined to regain and keep the briefly free (1918-40) Baltic countries...
Allied Raw Spot. Neither the U.S. nor Britain ever recognized the Russian annexation of the Baltic States in June 1940; each still permits the operation of the old Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian diplomatic agencies in London, Washington and New York...
Like most of the 20,000 Balts who managed to escape abroad before Soviet occupation, the Baltic diplomats in exile are bitterly anti-Russian, as bitterly anti-German. Whether the 1,100,000 Estonians, 1,900,000 Latvians, 2,800,000 Lithuanians who stayed in the homeland now prefer Russian or German rule is unknown. Only one thing seems certain: they will soon have Russian rule, autonomously or otherwise...