Word: riga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm in front of Warsaw and East Prussia. They were clearly throwing into this theater any reinforcements they could scrape up from anywhere. Nothing more had been heard of the gap which, three weeks ago, the Germans claimed they had blasted through the Russian corridor on the Gulf of Riga (TIME, Aug. 28). If the Germans were retiring troops from Estonia and Latvia through this gap, they did not want to say so. Neither did the Russians...
...Germans also launched massive attacks at the corridor held by the Russians on the Gulf of Riga, apparently trying to blast an escape route for the 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...
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...
This seemed like an opportune time to strike at East Prussia. At week's end, young General Chernyakhovsky, who had paused on the border for a whole fortnight, slashed into the Suwalki triangle, which Germany annexed in 1939. Bagramian's drive toward Riga while Chernyakhovsky waited had probably cost the latter his chance to be first to the sea. Now Chernyakhovsky held in his grasp a greater honor: that of seeing his divisions the first to tread the earth of Germany...