Today and 80 years ago

It is irony at its best that on this day in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg it is most likely that the far-right AfD will make substantial gains in the polls. 

Above all, on this day, the 80th aniversary of the German invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War ll.

A war that took millions of lives before the tide would be turned on the river Volga. Indeed, in these days 77 years ago the Germans were still rampaging through the Soviet Union. But also in these days the Rusians had decided there would be no further retreats and the great battle at Stalingrad would prove them victorious.

In November the Red Army launchedOperation Uranus.