Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Andrey Zvorykin
[REGNUM] On the morning of September 22, 1944, units of the 8th Rifle Corps of the 2nd Shock Army entered Tallinn – or rather, stormed in. In 24 hours, the Soviet riflemen covered a distance of 100 kilometers. The surprise factor worked.
The Tallinn operation of 1944, carried out from September 17 to 26 with the aim of defeating the enemy on Estonian territory and liberating Tallinn, part of the strategic Baltic operation of 1944. Residents talk with Soviet tank crews who liberated Tallinn.
The fighters captured 25 Nazi planes, 185 guns, and in the port, a dozen and a half ships on which the Nazis kept prisoners of war and civilians ready to be sent to the Reich.
The 8th Rifle Corps was called Estonian, and not without reason. In this almost 20,000-strong unit - with the 221st Tank Regiment and the Tazuya Air Squadron attached to it - 70% of the personnel were, in fact, Estonians.
This in itself refutes the established idea that the inhabitants of the Baltic republics who were capable of holding arms either joined the “forest brothers” or “collaborated” with the Nazis in menial jobs, or even in the ranks of the Estonian SS Legion.
The fighters who liberated Tallinn were commanded by Lieutenant General Lembit Pern, an ethnic Estonian, although originally from the Stavropol region. His predecessor in this post, Major General Jaan (Ivan Markovich) Lukas, had been a career officer in the army of the “bourgeois” Estonian Republic until 1940.
But in modern Estonian – and more broadly, Western – historiography, liberation from Nazism is presented as a Soviet (read: Russian) invasion followed by the restoration of the pre-war “occupation.”
It is claimed that the Red Army did not drive out the Nazis in the Baltic operation, but stopped an attempt to restore Estonia's independence. Which, to put it mildly, is not entirely true.
SWING FOR THE EIGHTH STRIKE
By September 1944, the Red Army had been victoriously advancing west for more than six months, also known as "Stalin's Ten Strikes."
Oh! Nothing to do with baseball, which explains why I was so confused. My apologies — carry on.
By this time, the entire territory of the country within the pre-1939 borders had already been liberated, as well as the Moldavian SSR, Romania, Bulgaria, most of the Lithuanian SSR, and part of Poland.
The Baltic offensive operation, which became the eighth strike, began to be prepared in the winter of 1944.
Lembit Pern recalled in his memoirs, “ In the Whirlwind of the War Years ”:
On February 20, at a meeting in Krasnoye Selo, the commander of the Leningrad Front, General of the Army (future Marshal) Leonid Govorov, set the task: by May 1, the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps must be fully prepared for entry into battle on Estonian territory.
Andrei Zhdanov was also present at the same meeting as a member of the front’s military council.
According to Pern’s memoirs, he “gave a high assessment to the open letter “Why We Fight for Soviet Estonia,” published on December 7, 1943, which was signed by 382 officers who had previously served in the Estonian bourgeois army and transferred to serve in the Red Army.”
The declared goal was to restore the pre-war status quo: Estonian statehood in the form of a Soviet republic.
No doubt Estonia would have liked to have a different goal, but never mind.
"ESTONIA, IN CASE OF WAR, WILL SIDE WITH RUSSIA"
Let us recall that Estonia, like the other two Baltic republics, became part of the USSR in 1940.
After the German invasion of Poland, this region could well have become next in Adolf Hitler's plans to expand "living space" to the east.
By that time, Lithuania had already felt some of the German aggression, having given up Klaipeda – or, in German, Memel – to Hitler in March 1939, even before the start of World War II.
In June of the same year, the three Baltic states hastened to conclude non-aggression pacts with Germany.
As the Western patrons of the Balts, Britain and France, withdrew, the region found itself in the Third Reich's gravitational field.
Winston Churchill, who was then in opposition, lamented: "Hitler managed without difficulty to penetrate deep into the weak defenses of the belated and half-hearted coalition directed against him."
Taking into account the possible appearance of the Wehrmacht somewhere near Narva already in 1939, the Soviet Union could not afford to “surrender” the Baltics.
In August 1939, after Moscow's negotiations with London and Paris on collective security had failed, the USSR concluded a non-aggression pact with Germany (the last in a series of similar agreements by the Germans). According to the Molotov - Ribbentrop Pact, Estonia and Latvia were in the Soviet Union's sphere of influence.
The pact allowed the Soviet Union to gain time, and the Baltic peoples to remain untouched by World War II for the time being.
From September 28 to October 10, 1939, non-aggression treaties were signed between the USSR and the three republics, which included agreements on the deployment of Soviet military bases on the territory of the latter.
Yes, not all Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians sympathized with the Bolsheviks (although, on the other hand, one can recall the Latvian Riflemen, Litbel, the first Latvian SSR, the Estonian Labor Commune and the Tallinn Uprising of 1924).
But, firstly, in 1939, Moscow assured that it would not interfere in the politics of the “bourgeois republics” – or more precisely, right-wing authoritarian regimes.
And secondly, the prospect of integration into the Reich could please the Ostsee (Baltic) Germans, but not their former subjects - the indigenous peoples.
As early as 1938, the Czechoslovak ambassador to Latvia reported:
"It is easy to see that the majority of the Latvian people are anti-German. Such anti-German sentiments date back to the times of the Baltic barons... In the event of war, Estonia... would rather side with Russia than with Germany."
It must be remembered that to the Nazis all Slavs were Untermenschen — slated for genocide immediately following the Jews, whereas Soviet Russia merely wanted to eradicate the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, the native military caste, the aristocracy, and the intellectuals, leaving the obedient and leaderless working class intact.
Hitler did not hide his plans - in May 1939, at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery, he declared: “For us, it is a question of expanding living space and ensuring supplies, as well as solving the Baltic problem.”
See?
The German blitzkrieg in France in May–June 1940 and the de facto end of the war in Western Europe (and thus the transfer of the Wehrmacht to the East) forced the Soviet leadership to take the next step – the Sovietization of the Baltics, including Estonia. And it cannot be said that this process did not meet with support “on the ground.”
In post-war Estonia, the events of June 1940 were known as the June Revolution. Dictator President Konstantin Päts agreed to Moscow's demands to accept additional troops and ensure a change of government.
On June 19, Prime Minister Jüri Uluots resigned. On the evening of June 21, after a series of mass pro-Soviet rallies, Johannes Vares-Barbarus, a modernist writer and left-wing politician, was appointed the new Prime Minister. On August 25, Estonia joined the USSR as a union republic.
Sovietization lasted exactly one year.
"TO PREVENT CLAIMS TO THE CREATION OF STATES"
On August 28, 1941, Tallinn was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and the Germans occupied all of Estonia by early September. The "new order" can be judged by the instructional letter from Reich Minister for the Eastern Territories Alfred Rosenberg to the head of the Reichskommissariat Ostland (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus) Heinrich Lohse dated June 21, 1941:
"The Reich Commissioner of the Ostland must prevent the emergence of claims to the creation of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian states independent of Germany. It is also necessary to constantly make it clear that all these areas are subject to German administration."
At the same time, as everywhere in occupied Europe, there were collaborators. Dr. Hjalmar Mäe, appointed to lead the “Estonian self-government” under the command of the General Commissioner of the Estland District, SA Obergruppenführer Karl-Sigmund Litzmann, “assisted” in organizing 25 concentration camps on Estonian territory.
During the work of the “self-government”, the Nazis and their accomplices from the paramilitary organization “Omakaitse” (“Self-Defense”) destroyed 61,000 disloyal civilians, 64,000 Soviet prisoners of war and actively participated in the “solution of the Jewish question”.
However, when the recruitment of “volunteers” for the Estonian SS Legion began in the spring of 1943 (they managed to recruit 5,300 volunteers, with a large number of deserters), the collaborators were not entrusted with the task - this was done by German officials of the Reichskommissariat.
In February 1944, amid a series of defeats on the Eastern Front, the occupiers rebranded themselves – instead of “self-government,” former Estonian politicians who had collaborated with the Reich were allowed to create the “National Committee of the Estonian Republic” (NKE). It was then that former Prime Minister Jüri Uluots emerged from oblivion – the Germans entrusted him with the leadership of the committee.
Modern Estonian historians emphasize that in April 1944, Uluots was elected acting president of Estonia at an underground meeting. But he was more notable for his agitation for joining the 20th SS Volunteer Infantry Division (1st Estonian). Incidentally, in 1999, the agitator Uluots was included in the list of the hundred greatest Estonians of the 20th century.
Estonian SS men had previously "distinguished themselves" in punitive expeditions in the Pskov region and Belarus - in shooting civilians, looting, destroying several Belarusian villages and mass deportation of "Ostarbeiters" for slave labor in Germany. Now they had to "defend" Estonia from the advancing Red Army.
HOW THE GERMANS MADE A STRATEGIC MISTAKE
In July 1944, the Red Army successfully advanced towards the former Soviet-Estonian border.
On July 24, the prelude to the liberation of Estonia began – the Narva operation. The enemy, fearing encirclement, began to retreat from the region to the fortified Tannenberg line.
On July 25, the 2nd Shock Army of the Leningrad Front under the command of Lieutenant General Ivan Fedyuninsky, with the support of the Baltic Fleet, crossed the Narva River. The city of Narva was liberated the following day, and by July 30, Soviet troops had reached the heavily fortified Tannenberg line, which halted the offensive.
By September 6, south of the Narva direction, the Tartu offensive had achieved success, leading to the liberation of the city of Tartu in southeastern Estonia and the creation of a second bridgehead suitable for an offensive deep into enemy territory.
The Germans expected that the Narva direction would be the main one for the Red Army. More of our troops were concentrated there (136,000 people), and Narva was much closer to the capital of Estonia, Tallinn.
But the Soviet command had a different view of the situation: the Red Army’s plan was to encircle the Wehrmacht units in Estonia.
For this purpose, the entire 2nd Shock Army, consisting of more than 100,000 people, over a thousand guns and about 4,000 armored vehicles, was secretly transferred to the Tartu direction on the eve of the start of the operation.
Here our troops were confronted by part of the German Army Group North, the Narva operational group, consisting of two corps, the main part of which defended the Narva Isthmus (the transfer of the 2nd Shock Army was not noticed by the Germans).
The operation began on September 17, 1944. After the first Soviet attacks, the German command realized its strategic mistake, and therefore on the same day the Germans began evacuating troops from Estonian territory.
By the evening of September 20, General Filipp Starikov's 8th Army and the 2nd Shock Army, advancing from the Narva and Tartu directions, joined forces in the area of the city of Rakvere, having advanced 70 kilometers. The next day, the offensive on Tallinn began.
And at that very moment, on September 18, Jüri Uluots proclaimed “Estonian independence.”
On September 20, the main Wehrmacht forces left Tallinn. The capital of the republic was in the hands of the NKE for two whole days. "President" Uluots appointed his subordinate Otto Tief as prime minister (his government is now considered legitimate).
The Tief cabinet managed to do the following: hang a small national flag in the city center on the Long Hermann tower next to the large Reichskriegsflagge - the German military flag, declare "neutrality in the current war" and even publish two issues of the newspaper "State Herald".
It was not possible to assemble a national army for a good reason: all those who wanted to “fight Bolshevism” fled towards Latvia along with the retreating Wehrmacht.
Therefore, on September 22, Soviet troops occupied the city without resistance. "President" Jüri Uluots managed to escape to neutral Sweden on September 20, the rest of the government was less lucky. Six people were arrested, five of them were sentenced to various terms, Jaan Maide, the chief of staff of the collaborationist "Omakaitse", appointed "commander-in-chief of the Estonian army", was shot for collaborating with the Nazis.
During the subsequent military actions, units of the Estonian pro-German militia, numbering about 2,000 people, nevertheless attempted to attack the Red Army, but to no avail. By September 26, the entire territory of the Estonian SSR, except for the Moonzund Islands, was liberated. Soviet troops entered Latvian territory, where they joined up with units of the 3rd Baltic Front of Colonel General Ivan Maslennikov fighting there.
BANDERA'S SLOGAN AGAINST THE BRONZE SOLDIER
In a week, Soviet troops managed to occupy the entire territory of mainland Estonia (they advanced about 40 kilometers per day); success was achieved due to the competent interaction of all types and branches of the military.
The Germans, despite significant losses, still managed to evacuate most of their troops to Latvia, where they would be surrounded in the Courland pocket until May 1945. But this was already agony.
The defeat of the Nazis and their collaborators in 1945 cannot be “retroactively cancelled”. But the memory of the joint fight against Nazism can be formatted. The attitude of the post-Soviet authorities of Estonia towards the Bronze Soldier became a symbol of this revision of the results of the war.
Immediately after the collapse of the USSR, the eternal flame at the monument to the liberators of Tallinn was extinguished, then the plaques with the names of the fallen soldiers were removed (instead, a plaque was installed that reads “Fallen in World War II” – which can be understood to include SS legionnaires), and finally, in 2007, despite public protests, it was removed from Tõnismägi Hill in the center of Tallinn to a military cemetery on its outskirts.
In April 2022, vandals got here too – they painted a swastika on the monument in yellow paint, and, characteristically, wrote “Glory to Ukraine!” on the pedestal. The hatred that the symbolic memory of the fight against Nazism continues to evoke suggests that this fight, including in the Baltics, remains relevant.
Against the backdrop of this scandal, politician Mart Helme (former Estonian ambassador to Moscow and future head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) declared: “Today’s Russia is a growing monster, the likes of which the world has never seen in its history.” The question arises: how did Russia, which 80 years ago gave up thousands of lives to free Estonians from slavery, “deserve” such an unflattering review. Especially from those for whom Nazi collaborators are not monsters, but “fighters for independence.”
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[JohnKassNews] No wonder that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to suffer those crippling panic attacks of his.
Chicago is falling apart. He’s completely out of his depth. He was unequipped for the job and his campaign was all about slogans, Marxist rhetoric from his allies in the Chicago Teachers Union, and race. Now those who can are in a rush to leave. He’s falling apart. His administration is falling apart. And the city is falling apart rapidly.
Forget the fake news "joy" of the Democratic National Convention that oozed out to promote Kamala Harris. She won’t help the city. And forget the corporate media cheerleaders who’ve tried to paper-over the city’s infected wounds to promote Democrat power. I spent 40 years covering the city’s politics.
Throughout all those years, the joke in Chicago was that any time things looked bad, at least we weren’t Detroit. But now that’s an insult to Detroit which is on the ascent. And the people of both cities know it. The city’s self-inflicted wounds are septic now.
Chicago, the city of my birth, the great city of great restaurants and earthy but realistic politics, is now a city that is unaffordable and unsafe. The public schools prepare Chicago schoolchildren only for prison, not success in life. Public transportation is dangerous and filthy and smells like a urinal. Only the poor use it or those who have no other choice. The city government is a billion dollars in debt. And the public schools are a billion in debt. Where’s the money? Johnson has no clue.
And now things will get worse beginning today. Chicago, already plagued by violent crime, will get worse beginning Sunday. That’s because Johnson let the contract for the revolutionary crime-fighting technology called ShotSpotter to lapse without a replacement. Although it alerted police to gunshots and helped police make arrests, Johnson derided it as "walkie talkie on a stick."
Johnson campaigned against it, loudly insisting that it led to "over-policing" which is code used by leftist Democrats to refer to arrests of black youths by police. It’s a racial thing with him. And with all those who backed him politically.
Black aldermen, representing black residents who are most often the victims of violent crime, have tried to keep ShotSpotter alive, knowing that it could lead to more arrests of racial minority gang members, but Johnson has promised to veto any plan to save it. And corporate media types tie themselves up in knots trying to explain a simple, but terrible truth:
The mayor of Chicago would rather protect the violent over his citizens. He’d rather embrace repeat gang offenders than the people who need his protection. As the corrupt corporate media becomes anxious and defensive about Johnson’s self-destructive reasoning, like the clownish leftist fools mocked by Matt Walsh in "Am I a Racist?" a great city is dying.
Now Johnson’s approval rating is an abysmal 27 percent makes him the most unpopular mayor of a Democrat Convention city in decades.
He has lost allies in the Chicago City Council by not paying attention to what is important: The people of his city. They want to be safe as possible. But he wants to get rid of the ShotSpotter technology that helps police make quick arrests. Johnson apparently doesn’t like that and his political inexperience and buffoonery allowed the City Council to organize against him.
Johnson from happier days leading CTU strikes
Johnson is like an insect that has been pinned. He’s stuck between his political ideology, trying to serve his masters (or mistresses) of the Chicago Teachers Union, and political survival, hence all those panic attacks.
And obviously the schools don’t educate the children. They can’t even read or do math at grade level, a national disgrace, but now more panic attack news for the mayor: News reports that the schoolteachers were told to give passing grades to illegal migrant children who are squeezing the native born out of classrooms.
Violent crime on the increase—not decreasing as the liars of corporate media keep prattling on about. Crime is up 40 percent over 2019 levels. And we already know that Chicago is the murder capital of America.
Some of you may have noticed something about this column written by a longtime Chicago newspaper man. I’ve put in links to Wirepoints.org and the Illinois Policy Institute, but not the Chicago Sun Times or my old paper the Tribune. Why not? The Trib went woke and broke and neither paper covers crime as they used to.
Fran Spielman and Tim Novak of the Sun Times know what they’re doing. And the Tribune’s Jason Meisner and Ray Long understand political corruption and its corrosive nature. But street crime is as problematic for the papers as ShotSpotter is for Johnson. It is to be avoided politely lest they offend prominent and wealthy Democrats like Gov. Commodius Maximus.
But the website CWB Chicago does cover crime. They cover it very well. For example, CWB has documented another terrible truth: Since 2020, there have been 387 people arrested for murder and attempted murder while they were out on bail for other violent crimes.
And the establishment corporate media? Crickets.
Why do the metropolitan papers avoid street crime? My theory, they’d rather avoid dealing with repeat minority criminal offenders. And they’d rather avoid calling the architects of the chaos to account: Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans and the Soros prosecutor, outgoing Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx (D-Jussie Smollett).
The papers thunder on about ShotSpotter but leave Toni Preckwinkle alone? The political coverage by the papers is corrupt and embarrassing. But at least the people of Chicago now know where they stand—in the gutter.
Yet CWB Chicago and Wirepoints.org and Illinois Policy address the crime issue thoughtfully. And Blocklub Chicago. But the papers? Who reads the papers anymore? For the columnists? I don’t think so.
We used to read the papers on the el, remember? But who uses the CTA now? A city won’t last long if it doesn’t educate the kids or offer public transportation. Especially if that public transportation isn’t safe. Who takes public transportation? Not reasonably well off-old guys like me. And not the top CTA brass Poor women use it, poor people without options, kids who are trying to get home from school, and lost souls.
CTA boss Dorval Carter lives his protected life. The governor and the Chicago City council want him gone. But Johnson protects him. Johnson leaves Dorval Carter—who doesn’t take CTA—alone. Carter is still here drawing a fat salary, still playing the race card and not using public transportation and getting away with it.
Why?
You could also ask that of official Chicago:
Why?
They knew what had to be done—keep the public safe, keep violent predators behind bars, give the children a reasonable chance at an education, clean the urine and the smell from the CTA and make it safe, protect the downtown from the Black Lives Matter rioters of 2020. And they didn’t do it. Instead, they played race card politics and make speeches about guilt and in their world everyone is a victim.
The real victims? The taxpayers and the law abiding. The people who play by the rules are the victims.
Politicians knew what would happen. Success in the big-city political trade involves understanding and manipulating human nature. And yet they did nothing.
I can imagine the Democrat machine hacks out there, the new political hacks from CTU and SEIU tweeting up a hissy fit about what I’ve written here, but they can’t silence me now. Don’t they understand simple economics? Without graybeards who can pay for a decent meal and entertainment, those old guys going downtown taking their wives out on a weekend, would there still be restaurants or theater?
No.
A few years ago I spoke to some very nice people at a dinner engagement in the Gold Coast. These were people with real money. They loved Chicago and didn’t ever want to leave. Betty and I never wanted to leave, either.
But the others at the dinner were isolated and insulated from street crime in Chicago, and they also bought homes in Naples and Marco Island Florida and other civilized places. In my after-dinner talk dinner, I asked them if they planned on ever moving back to Chicago.
Just raise your hands, I said.
No one raised their hands.
So who’ll stay in Chicago now? Only those who are financially tied to it, and those who can’t afford to leave.
But others? They’ve got options, too.
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So who’ll stay in Chicago now?
Only the cognitively impaired or deceased. No different from Atlana, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, or any other urban, democratic stronghold.
#2
Sad. So very sad ...
Just this week, my daughter and I watched "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - a John Hughes movie that he described in interviews as a love letter to Chicago. Chicago as it was.
Reading things like this (and others) and then watching that movie was so very sad. The city that Ferris and his two friends romped through for a magical day doesn't seem to be there any more.
#4
I've been to Chicago.
I'll just leave it at that.
I'm convinced that part of the reason for the determination to pauperize the middle class is to keep taxpayers from being able to move away from the "f*ckedup zones". You won't be able to afford to leave, and nobody would buy your house anyway.
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When I drive out west on a road trip, I try to never get closer to Chicago than 50 miles. Even if I have to cross the lower peninsula of Michigan, the Mackinac Bridge, and the upper peninsula to do that. Besides safety, avoiding Chicago means avoiding the perpetual road construction and traffic jams.
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"But street crime is as problematic for the papers as ShotSpotter is for Johnson. It is to be avoided politely lest they offend prominent and wealthy Democrats like Gov. Commodius Maximus." A classic put-down.
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Who'll stay in Chicago? The migrants that the Dems are putting up there. Why not? They're getting apartments, cars, cell phones n cash. Great deal if you can get it. Sorry citizens, you don't qualify.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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