Eighty years ago today, World War II began. On September 1, Germany invaded Poland from the west, the north and the south. Seventeen days later. the Soviet Union invaded from the east, completing the encirclement, an action described by the British “Daily Worker” newspaper in its page-one headline as “Soviet Union strikes a blow against Nazis”*.
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