In the following minutes, seven SS officers posing as Polish partisans, would carry out a simple act that would leave one man dead on the station steps – and provide Adolf Hitler with the excuse to invade Poland, plunging the world into six dark years of conflict.Not to mention that Stalin had signed the hideously misnamed non-aggression pact, which divided Poland between the USSR and Third Reich.
I always thought that the Nazis and Soviets jointly started the European war. Does Hitler attack without the Non-Aggression pact? I highly doubt it.
The fact is, Stalin wanted war, so that the Germans, British and French could bleed each other dry, so as to allow the Red Army to swoop in from the East and clean up the mess.