the soviet union had 1, 100, 000 soldiers.
the soviet union had 1, 100, 000 soldiers.
how many soldiers did the soviet union have?
1, 100, 000
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on january 15, 1945, army group courland ("heeresgruppe kurland") was formed under colonel-general dr. lothar rendulic. until the end of the war, army group courland (including divisions such as the latvian freiwiliger ss legion) successfully defended the latvian peninsula. it held out until may 8, 1945, when it surrendered under colonel-general carl hilpert, the army group's last commander. he surrendered to marshal leonid govorov, the commander of opposing soviet forces on the courland perimeter. at this time the group still consisted of some 31 divisions of varying strength. after may 9, 1945 approximately 203,000 troops of army group courland began moving to soviet prison camps in the east. the soviet union reoccupied latvia as part of the baltic offensive in 1944, a twofold military-political operation to rout german forces and the "liberation of the soviet baltic peoples" beginning in summer-autumn 1944, lasting until the capitulation of german and latvian forces in courland pocket in may 1945, and they were gradually absorbed into soviet union. after world war ii, as part of the goal to more fully integrate baltic countries into the soviet union, mass deportations were concluded in the baltic countries and the policy of encouraging soviet immigration to latvia continued. on january 12, 1949 the soviet council of ministers issued a decree "on the expulsion and deportation" from latvia of "all kulaks and their families, the families of bandits and nationalists", and others. more than 200,000 people are estimated to have been deported from the baltic in 1940–1953. in addition, at least 75,000 were sent to gulag. 10 percent of the entire adult baltic population was deported or sent to labor camps. many soldiers evaded capture and joined the latvian national partisans' resistance that waged unsuccessful guerilla warfare for several years.
soviet re-occupation of latvia in 1944