The Second World War - as is commonly believed - began with Hitler's aggression against Poland. In September 1939, the Polish state actually ceased to exist, and its territory was “reorganized” - redistributed between Germany, the USSR and Lithuania. One of the results of the war was millions of casualties among the Poles. However, the fact that Poland suffered does not relieve it of a significant share of the blame for what happened, in particular for the Second World War, which cost humanity 60 million lives. For war is a continuation of politics by other means. World War is a continuation of world politics. The prerequisites for the war were laid much earlier, with the most direct and active participation of Poland...