Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...north. To the jubilant Russians this was a victory as great as the destruction of the Eighth German Army in the Ukraine (see below), as the break-through at Krivoi Rog. This week they looked forward to a still greater triumph: capture of Pskov, railroad gateway into the Baltic States. Of the three Red armies driving on the thousand-year-old stronghold, the closest stood only 28 miles away...
...long letter cabled from Russia, signed by the Red Army's Vladas Karvelis, commander of a Lithuanian division, and Johanes Lukas, Chief of Staff of the Estonian Rifle Corps. Their message: "By joining the Soviet Union and at the same time remaining independent masters of their countries the [Baltic] peoples acquired the broadest opportunities for national, cultural and economic development...
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...