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...Baltic Fleet would soon be free to operate in the Gulf of Finland, could well land troops on the Finnish coast...
Another great victory this week was within the Red Army's grasp: reoccupation of Estonia. Already Russian vanguards were within gun range of the border. Before them now lay only the fortified northern gateway into the tiny Baltic States...
Victory in Estonia-a victory in sight, but yet to be won-would enable the Russians to: 1) roll back the entire German Baltic Front across the flat, creek-laced terrain of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; 2) outflank the German front in White Russia; 3) raid Germany's supply routes across the Baltic, depriving the German munitions industry of Swedish ore and virtually isolating Finland...
...Rewards. Black columns of weary, stunned prisoners straggled into Leningrad. The passers-by laughed and shouted. For this was a great victory: an 880-day siege had been lifted, 25,000 Germans (according to Moscow) had been killed in six days, 85 huge siege guns had been captured. The Baltic Fleet was free again to sail into the Gulf of Finland. Red columns were pressing toward Estonia 56 miles away...
Policy of Idiocy. Before the Germans plunged into the Ukraine, Ukrainian Nationalists had some hopes of German "deliverance" from the Bolsheviks. But in the Baltic States the Nazi party went to idiotic lengths to lose friends and alienate people. Fredborg says the Nazis lost the rest of Europe the way they lost the Baltic States and the Ukraine. Where they might have taken advantage of the "latent, or rather instinctive, anti-Bolshevist sentiment still existing in most nations," they systematically outraged whole populations into feeling that Stalin was a brother in arms...