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Last week the armies of Generals Ivan Masslenikov and Andrei Yeremenko crashed through the defense belt from the northeast and southeast, fought their way into the wide boulevards of the suburbs, into the narrow, winding streets of the town. Riga fell. In Moscow, Joseph Stalin ordered the maximum victory salute: 24 salvos from 324 guns...
...German divisions trapped in Latvia and Estonia. The Germans claimed that they had shelled General Bagramian's positions from cruisers in the Gulf, that they had established contact with their pocketed forces. The Russians admitted abandoning several places west of Riga. To the east, however, Generals Bagramian and Masslenikov were squeezing the pocket hard...
Meanwhile, the Russians leisurely probed their squirming bag of 30 German divisions trapped in Latvia and Estonia by the Red drive to the Gulf of Riga. General Yeremenko attacked along the Dvina River toward Riga. General Masslenikov started a sweep northward along the west shore of Lake Peipus...
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