Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into this last-chance gamble Hitler has thrown many of his still vast resources. From the inland industrial centers of the Ruhr he can spawn his raiders and send them across the world. The biggest craft are launched into the Baltic and the North Sea. Smaller craft can be floated through river and canal arteries across the face of France, spewed out into the English Channel through the Seine, into the Mediterranean through the Saone-Rhone Rivers, into the Bay of Biscay through the Loire River...
Russia was as uncommunicative about her plans for postwar Europe as she was about military details. Common sense indicated that Russia, for her future security, will demand European concessions-possibly Petsamo in Finland, warm-water ports in the Baltic, a sphere of influence in the Balkans, access to the Black Sea straits. Common sense also indicated that, unless a general and open agreement is reached soon on joint postwar policies, the Allies' present comradeship-in-arms may turn into a barracks brawl. The first chairs were already being thrown by pro-Soviets and anti-Soviets in the Balkans...
...film this day's fighting for Soviet Government archives, the Russian cameramen went into action with front-line land, sea & air forces from the Baltic to Sevastopol. Their work, popularly known as June 13th (TIME, Oct. 19), was exhibited in Russia only. As edited by the MARCH OF TIME, One Day of War packs the best of this film into 20 minutes of intensely exciting action...
Stolid Premier Per Albin Hansson looked anxiously over clean, quiet Stockholm, at Sweden's six-thousand-mile-long frontier, and beyond. Across the war-torn Baltic, Red Armies had lifted the siege of Leningrad (see p. 33) and threatened to push on into starving, freezing Finland. To the south, British and U.S. bombs fell regularly on German cities. Westward, across the Skagerrak, German sappers and soldiers from Trondheim to Narvik threw up fortifications against the Allied attack they feared...
...Millerovo. This week Moscow announced another victory: the long siege of Leningrad was in a fair way to be lifted; Russian troops had captured the pivotal, fortified city of Schlüsselburg, some 25 miles to the east, where the Germans based their inland line around the great Baltic port. From the Baltic to the dark and bloody ground of the Caucasus, the German Wehrmacht was in retreat...