Hoover Institution senior fellow Stephen Kotkin discusses the beginning of World War II, marked by Hitler’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, and highlights the subsequent embarrassment faced by both Nazi German and the Soviet Union when Hitler later attacked the USSR on June 22, 1941.
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