'Yantar da jihohin Baltic ta Red Army, sashi na 2
Sojojin SS a kan hanyarsu ta zuwa gaban layin tsaro a cikin aljihun Courland; Nuwamba 21, 1944
Ranar 3 ga Satumba, 21, sojojin 1944rd Baltic Front, suna cin gajiyar nasarar Leningrad Front, sun kammala nasarar tsaron abokan gaba zuwa zurfin dabara. Hakika, bayan da aka rufe janyewar sojojin Narva zuwa Riga, maharan Jamus a gaban Maslennikov sun mika matsayinsu da kansu - kuma da sauri: sojojin Soviet sun bi su a cikin motoci. A ranar 23 ga Satumba, gyare-gyare na 10th Panzer Corps ya 'yantar da birnin Valmiera, da kuma 61st Army na Janar Pavel A. Belov, aiki a gefen hagu na gaba, janye zuwa yankin na birnin Smiltene. Sojojinsa tare da hadin gwiwar runduna ta 54 ta Janar S.V. Roginsky sun kwace birnin Cesis har zuwa safiyar ranar 26 ga Satumba.
2. Kafin wannan, rundunar Baltic Front ta keta layin tsaro na Cesis, amma saurin tafiyarsa bai wuce kilomita 5-7 a kowace rana ba. Ba a ci Jamusawa ba; sun ja da baya cikin tsari da fasaha. Makiya sun tsallake rijiya da baya. Yayin da wasu sojojin ke rike da mukamansu, wasu kuma da suka ja da baya sun shirya sabbi. Kuma duk lokacin da na sake kutsawa cikin tsaron abokan gaba. Kuma ba tare da shi ba, ƙananan hannun jari na harsashi sun ruguje a gaban idanunmu. An tilastawa sojojin shiga cikin ƴan ƴan ƴan ƴan ƴan-sanyi - faɗin kilomita 3-5. Bangarorin sun yi ma kananan gibi, inda nan da nan aka gabatar da jifa na biyu. A wannan lokacin, sun fadada gaban ci gaba. A ranar karshe ta fada, sun yi ta tafiya dare da rana ... Karkashin turjiya mai karfi da makiya suka yi, a hankali rundunar ta 2 ta Baltic Front ta tunkari Riga. Mun kai kowane mataki da himma. Duk da haka, yayin da yake ba da rahoto ga babban kwamandan kwamandan rundunar, Marshal Vasilevsky, ya bayyana hakan ba kawai ta hanyar yanayi mai wuyar gaske da tsayin daka na abokan gaba ba, har ma da cewa gaban ba ya da kyau. yana sarrafa sojoji da manyan bindigogi, ya yarda da ɗanɗanon dakaru don motsi a kan hanyoyi, yayin da ya ajiye tsarin sojan ƙasa a ajiye.
Dakarun Baghramyan a wancan lokaci sun shagaltu da fatattakar hare-haren da sojojin Panzer na 3 na Janar Raus suka yi. A ranar 22 ga Satumba, sojojin na 43rd Army sun yi nasarar tura Jamus a arewacin Baldone. Sai kawai a cikin yankin na 6th Guards Army, ƙarfafa ta 1st Tank Corps da kuma rufe hagu reshe na girgiza kungiyar na gaba, a kan gaba zuwa Riga daga kudu, abokan gaba sun iya shiga cikin tsaron na Soviet sojojin sama. ku 6 km.
Ya zuwa ranar 24 ga Satumba, sojojin Jamus da ke aiki da reshen hagu na Leningrad Front sun koma Riga, yayin da a lokaci guda suka ƙarfafa kansu a tsibirin Moonsund (yanzu tsibirin Estoniya ta Yamma). A sakamakon haka, gaban Army Group "Arewa", yayin da rauni a cikin fadace-fadace, amma gaba daya rike ta fama iyawa, an rage daga 380 zuwa 110 km. Wannan ya ba da damar umarninsa ya tattara tarin sojoji a cikin hanyar Riga. A kan 105-kilomita "Sigulda" line tsakanin Gulf of Riga da arewacin bakin tekun na Dvina, 17 sassa kare, da kuma kusan a kan wannan gaba a kudancin Dvina zuwa Auka - 14 sassa, ciki har da uku tank division. Tare da waɗannan sojojin, suna ɗaukar matakan tsaro da aka shirya a gaba, umarnin Jamus ya yi niyya don dakatar da ci gaban sojojin Soviet, kuma idan aka gaza, janye Rukunin Sojojin Arewa zuwa Gabashin Prussia.
A ƙarshen Satumba, sojojin Soviet tara sun isa layin tsaro na "Sigulda" kuma suka gudanar da su a can. A wannan karon ba a samu damar karya kungiyar abokan gaba ba, in ji Janar Shtemienko. – Da fada ta koma kan layin da aka shirya a baya, mai nisan kilomita 60-80 daga Riga. Sojojinmu, sun mai da hankali kan hanyoyin zuwa babban birnin Latvia, a zahiri sun ƙwace ta hanyar tsaron abokan gaba, suna tura shi baya mita da mita. Wannan saurin aikin bai nuna nasara cikin sauri ba kuma yana da alaƙa da hasara mai yawa a gare mu. Umurnin Soviet ya ƙara fahimtar cewa hare-haren gaba na gaba a kan kwatance na yanzu bai kawo komai ba sai karuwar asara. An tilastawa hedkwatar babban kwamandan kwamandojin kasar amincewa da cewa aikin a kusa da Riga yana samun ci gaba sosai. Don haka, a ranar 24 ga Satumba, an yanke shawarar matsawa babban ƙoƙarin zuwa yankin Siauliai, wanda Bagramyan ya nemi a sake shi a watan Agusta, kuma ya buga a cikin hanyar Klaipeda.
