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Founded in 1158 as a storehouse for Bremen merchants, later a Hanseatic League port, Riga is less valuable as a harbor than Tallinn to the north or Memel to the south-because the Gulf of Riga freezes over for four months. But Riga was the last Baltic capital in Nazi hands, and therefore a great symbolic prize for the Russians...
Winter was coming in the Baltic; the Red armies moved swiftly. Driving down the eastern shore of the Gulf of Riga, they crossed the Latvian border, freed the whole mainland of Estonia. In Tallinn, an ice-free port most of the year, work crews began repairs on the harbor installations, the power plant generators spun again, the government of a Soviet Socialist Republic reassembled...
...army, fresh from its triumph over the Finns in Karelia, swept across Estonia. Its left flank drove through from the southern end of Lake Peipus. Its right flank drove through the lake-studded swamps bordering the Gulf of Finland. At a mile-an-hour clip, this force rolled into Tallinn, last but one of the occupied capitals (according to Soviet reckoning) of the Soviet republics...
Down Go the Ships. With Govorov's southern flank cutting toward the coast south of Tallinn, the Nazis took to the sea to escape. Many of the scratch fleet of evacuation ships were sunk by Red Fleet aircraft before they got to sea. The seizure of Tallinn (directly opposite Helsinki) was a great naval victory, for it pave the Red Fleet control of the Gulf of Finland and, after three years' virtual blockade, a chance to operate in the Baltic. The Red Fleet seized the opportunity at once, and landed marines who captured Paldiski, west of Tallinn...
...Capitals formerly occupied, now freed by the Red Army are: Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, liberated Nov. 6, 1943; Petrozavodsk, Karelo-Finnish S.S.R., June 19, 1944; Vilna, Lithuanian S.S.R., July 13; Minsk, Belorussian S.S.R., July 14; Kishinev, Moldavian S.S.R., Aug. 24; Tallinn, Estonian S.S.R., Sept. 22. There remained only Riga, Latvian S.S.R...