The result of the series of battles was the isolation and encirclement of the Army Group North in the Courland Pocket and Soviet re-occupation of the Baltic States.

In February 1944, it retreated from the approaches to Leningrad to the prepared section of the Panther Line at the border of Estonia.

In June and July, Army Group Centre was thrown back from the Byelorussian SSR into Poland by Operation Bagration.

After a brief period of respite, Stavka issued orders for the Baltic strategic offensive, which lasted from 14 September to 24 November.

[10] The Red Army commenced the encirclement and reduction of the Courland Pocket which retained a possibility of being a major threat, but were able to focus on operations on its northern flank that were now aiming at East Prussia.

Besides the armed resistance of the Forest Brothers, a number of underground nationalist schoolchildren groups were active.

The punitive actions decreased rapidly after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953; from 1956 to 1958, a large part of the deportees and political prisoners were allowed to return to their homelands.

This helped the Baltic citizens to organise a new resistance movement in the late 1980s and then rapidly develop a modern society after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.