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| Incident at the Marco Polo Bridge (Lugouqiao) - the beginning of the Japanese Resistance War |
| 2023-07-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Text taken from an article which appeared in in ukraina.ru [ColonelCassad] It is well known that World War II began on September 1, 1939 with the German attack on Poland. However, well-known does not mean true. There are several approaches to dating the start of the war, one of which proposes to abandon Eurocentrism and pay attention to the tragic events in China on July 7, 1937. July 7 is an important but not widely celebrated date in modern Chinese history. On this day, 86 years ago, Japanese troops attacked the Lugouqiao Bridge on the Yongdinghe River on the southern outskirts of Beiping, as Beijing was called in those years. Since ancient times, the bridge, which Marco Polo wrote about, served as a key object for protecting Beijing from enemy attacks, and by 1937 it still retained its fortification importance. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-07-08 08:17 |
| #1 It is well known that World War II began on September 1, 1939 with the German attack on Poland...followed shortly thereafter by the Soviet Union invading Poland from the East. FIFY |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-07-08 07:49 |