Original sentence: The Soviet Union reconquered the Baltic states as part of the Baltic Strategic Offensive Operation, a two fold 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
Edited sentence: The Soviet Union reoccupied the Baltic states as part of the Baltic Strategic Offensive Operation, a two fold 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