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.
In ten days, Marshal Govorov's army group had killed 30,000 Germans, captured 15,000 more. When Govorov seized Ainazi, on the Latvian coast, the Germans lost their only rail-served port...
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