1944, Feb. 1. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History

The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001.


1944, Feb. 1

An amendment to the constitution granted separate commissariats for defense and for foreign affairs to each of the constituent republics. Each could thus maintain its own army (which would form, however, a component element in the army of the USSR) and could conduct its own negotiations with foreign countries and conclude treaties with them.	1

July 24

Soviet forces drove the Germans from the last large Russian city by liberating Pskov. This opened the war for a Soviet drive against the German divisions holding Estonia.	2


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