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...Bullitt writes that 'the Soviet Union will dominate Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.' How can the Soviet Union 'dominate' Soviet Republics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Suspicions | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Near the East Prussian border with Lithuania stood the windmill of Tauroggen. Inside sat a disgusted Prussian general. He was about to commit treason. Across the table sat a Russian general, in command of Russia's forces in the Baltic. The Prussian had orders to take Riga, but he promised the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Wind from Tauroggen | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...addition to Bialystok, the towns conquered in one day by the Red Armies were Lvov and Stanislavov in southern Poland, Dvinsk in Latvia, and Shavli, an important rail junction in Lithuania. If the Germans had been resisting as stubbornly as a year ago, any one of the five would have been deemed worth weeks of siege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Citizens, Listen! | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...Pockets. General Bagramian, Armenian-born, thrust a long salient into Lithuania. At the tip of it he occupied

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Citizens, Listen! | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...long as the Red Armies delayed an attack on East Prussia, the exit gate for the German Armies in the Baltic provinces stood open. But the Nazis were in dire peril. Having carved a huge salient in Lithuania, General Bagramian was closer last week to Riga than General Chernyakhovsky, at the Suwalki triangle, was to Konigsberg. Yet a breakthrough to Riga would bring in only part of the bag. Pulling the drawstring at Konigsberg might be more difficult, but it would pay off more handsomely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Fragments | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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