Monday, September 1, 2025

The beginning of a war that claimed 53 million people

On this day, September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland, 17 days later the Red Army invaded Poland from the east.

World War II had begun, a war that claimed approximately 53 million people, of whom 27 million were citizens of the Soviet Union.

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