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Another Strong Heave? All along the broad eastern front the Russians were seemingly ready for their own last strong heave. General Andrey I. Yeremenko's Fourth Ukrainian Army inched in on Teschen and the Moravian Gap entry to the Czech industrial complex. There were rumblings of readiness from Marshals Ivan Konev's and Georgi Zhukov's fronts before Dresden and Berlin...
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...
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...
...Chairs. One of the bitterest blows of a bitter German week was the sudden appearance, east of the Latvian border, of stocky, limping General Andrei Yeremenko, seven-times-wounded hero of Stalingrad, Smolensk, the Crimea. Between Drissa and Pskov, quiescent up to last week, lay the last thin strip of Soviet territory still in German hands. Attacking on this 100-mile front, Yeremenko made gains up to 25 miles. On the narrow Issa River, the Germans blew up their ferries and crossings, but Yeremenko's doughty men swarmed across on small boats, rafts and logs...
General Tolbukhin's armies, which had finished "cleaning" the Crimea last month, were now reported being shifted to the central front.* Also available as a reserve was General Andrei Yeremenko's army, which helped to capture the Crimea. Both these armies were a considerable strengthening factor for the Russians who have had untold millions of casualties...