Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944)

The Soviet Union (USSR) re annexed most of the territory of the Baltic states in its 1944 Baltic Offensive during World War II. The Red Army regained control over the three Baltic capitals and encircled retreating Wehrmacht and Latvian forces in the Courland Pocket, where they held out until the final German surrender at the end of the war. == Soviet offensives and re-occupation == The day is not far off when we will completely liberate the Ukraine, and the White Russia, Leningrad and Kalinin regions from the enemy; when we will liberate … the people of the Crimea and Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia and Karelo-Finnish Republic.—Joseph Stalin in a public speech broadcast in Moscow during the Second Battle of Kiev, November 1943 By 2 February 1944, the siege of Leningrad was over and the Soviet troops were on the border with Estonia.

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Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944)

The Soviet Union (USSR) re annexed most of the territory of the Baltic states in its 1944 Baltic Offensive during World War II. The Red Army regained control over the three Baltic capitals and encircled retreating Wehrmacht and Latvian forces in the Courland Pocket, where they held out until the final German surrender at the end of the war. == Soviet offensives and re-occupation == The day is not far off when we will completely liberate the Ukraine, and the White Russia, Leningrad and Kalinin regions from the enemy; when we will liberate … the people of the Crimea and Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia and Karelo-Finnish Republic.—Joseph Stalin in a public speech broadcast in Moscow during the Second Battle of Kiev, November 1943 By 2 February 1944, the siege of Leningrad was over and the Soviet troops were on the border with Estonia.

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