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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...
Shavli, cut the railroad from Riga to Tilsit in East Prussia, and left only a one-track line through Memel as an escape route for some 30 German divisions on the Baltic fronts. Bagramian then blocked even this forlorn loophole by broadening his salient northward to the junction at Jelgava...
Until that happened, the Germans seemed to be making some belated efforts to evacuate southward; Red pilots reported bombing southbound troop trains. But the railroads were lost now. At Jelgava, the Russians were only 25 miles from the sea. The Germans were thus caught in two pockets-one between Riga and the Gulf of Finland, the other between Riga and East Prussia...
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...