41.  Now, when shooting broke out in Riga, it looked like Soviet forces were bent on crushing the three Baltic states one by one.

42.  Rabbani leads the very forces that battled Soviet forces and finally defeated them.

43.  Returning to Ukraine after negotiations on the former Soviet naval force in Moscow, Sevastopol mayor Viktor Semyonov told the Interfax news agency the sides are near an agreement.

44.  Soviet forces launch attacks on the sputtering German offensive in Hungary.

45.  Suisho Island is one of a group of four disputed islands east of Hokkaido seized by Soviet forces at the end of World War II.

46.  Soviet forces penetrate into East Prussia, capturing Tilsit and pushing near Tannenberg.

47.  Soviet forces seized the Liechtenstein family archives in occupied Austria at the end of World War II when it captured the Liechtenstein castle near Vienna.

48.  Soviet armored forces advance on a broad front across Poland, capturing Krakow, Tarnow, Nowy Sacz, Lodz and Wloclawek.

49.  Soviet forces gain ground in intense fighting in eastern Germany, especially near Stettin.

50.  Soviet forces seized the islands in the closing days of World War II.