Not many remember what happened today, 80 years ago. Worse, we live in a world populated by scores of propagandists doing their darnedest to pretend nothing much did. These shills are more than duplicitous. They are dangerous. For they are trying to rewrite the history of World War II, to obfuscate not just the dates on which the war began, and ended, but to confound us about who the villains were.
Eighty years ago, on August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union allied itself with Nazi Germany under the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The second world war began on September 1, 1939, as Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin dismembered Poland.