Article. "Secrets of the Second World War"

Western historians, claiming September 1, 1939 as the start date of the world conflict, pursue an understandable goal of transferring responsibility for unleashing the war to the Soviet Union, taking the signing of a non-aggression pact as a starting point. Strange as it may seem, Soviet history accepted this version and continues to adhere to it today. But few people know that this is preceded by events that may, in their essence, be the starting points in the emergence of a global war of mankind. According to historians from China, the date of Japan´s invasion of the Middle Kingdom in the summer of 1937 should be considered the start of World War II. This version really deserves serious attention, since it was then that a large-scale conflict began, in which more than half a billion inhabitants of these two countries were involved, which is many times the population of pre-war Europe. This article opens our eyes to the events preceding the official date of the start of the war, as well as the little-known facts of the bloodiest and most terrible war of mankind.