The 8-Ball's plight is one of T2K's most hair-brained, half-baked ideas.
It's not canonical but I've injected the Soviet 9th GTA into northern Poland as a mechanism to explain the collapse of German 3rd Army's summer offensive. I think this could also help explain how the 8th ID ends up in Latvia. The sudden appearance of a Soviet tank army in 8th ID's operational rear area could explain 8th ID's long, strange trip into Latvia. With a strong enemy at their heels and relatively undefended territory in front of them, they could be forgiven for going the wrong way.
This explanation is still a stretch but it does make more sense than some rookie staff officer making a wrong turn (that 1000 other people don't notice until it's too late). That's just preposterous.
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