Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia were actually to risk fighting Germany, one of the Red Army's principal theoretical advantages would be its hold on the Baltic States-threat to Germany's exposed northern flank. Last week Russia went in for some trumpery which looked very much like an excuse to get a better foothold in the spot nearest Germany: Lithuania. The little State was warned to discontinue trying to pry military information from Soviet soldiers. Five Russians were said to have been kidnapped at various times, gagged, blindfolded, thrown in cellars, starved for several days, beaten, questioned. One was alleged...
...because of Germany's new proximity in The Netherlands, but chiefly because, when the war reached the Low Countries, the Allies' northern blockade of Germany became practically 100%. The skeleton crew at Kirkwall will look over only the few ships bound for Sweden, Finland, Russia and her Baltic satellites...
...West), boomed a Swedish-Russian rapprochement based on protective Russian power. Significant was revived talk of a Russian-Finnish-Swedish treaty for joint fortification of the strategic Aland Islands, with Finn Juho Paasikivi, whom Stalin likes, as possible intermediary. Sweden, impressed alike by Soviet moderation in Finland and the Baltic States, and German "protection" in Denmark and Poland, seemed about to make the best of a none too good bargain...
...begging favors of her oldest enemy in Europe. Through the good offices of Berlin a Swedish trade commission arranged to go to Moscow, where the Swedes will be petitioners for some of the commerce they sorely need now that the Nazi seizure of Norway has them boxed in the Baltic. In Stockholm preliminary negotiations for a trade treaty with Germany were completed, to be resumed later in Berlin. This arrangement gave the Germans time to increase their demands, the Swedes time to reflect on their new status in Europe...
Thus protected by her two big Baltic neighbors-from each other as well as from the Allies-Sweden showed how completely she was trapped by strengthening her defenses against attack by way of Ally-held northern Norway. Said one Swede close to the Government: "It appears we can expect nothing from the Western Powers...