"Poles brag that turned the local conflict into world war"

Early in the morning on September 1, 1939 planes of Luftwaffe struck blow to the Polish airfields, minutes later a battleship "Schleswig-Holstein" opened fire on Vesterplatte's naval base, and divisions of Wehrmacht crossed the germano-Polish border from Baltic to Silesia. So 84 years ago at the same time on land, on the sea and in air battles of World War II which mentioned one and a half billion people began and cost to the world of tens of millions lives, among which — 27 million citizens of the USSR. Shilov Yvan information agency "REGNUM" the Military historian Alexander Borisovich Shirokorad On historical coincidence the termination most...