About the book: year / Now many countries claim their exclusive place in the victory in the Second World War, they say they showed miracles of heroism in the Second World War, and won solely due to their adherence to the principles of Western democracy, love of humanity, equality and the desire to curb the aggressor. I would like to figure out if this is so? Of course, all these countries and their populations participated in the war, but the question is that we need to understand where they fought, with whom they fought, when they started fighting, why and how. What goals did you set while fighting? Contribution to the war is ultimately determined by the question: How many people fought, where and against whom? So maybe now it’s worth looking at the map and comprehending those events? There are slightly more kilometers between Moscow and Warsaw than between Berlin and Paris. The distance from the borders from which the aggression began to Moscow is 870 kilometers. Napoleonic Euroarmada covered this distance in 83 days; in 1812, on foot, the Germans covered the same distance - 166 days, in cars and tanks. In this work, I did not try to consider all aspects of the Second World War, but took only one, the participation of European countries in the war, were they really forced to fight against the Soviet Union, or were there other motives? In addition to Germany (June 22) and Italy (June 22), Romania (June 22), Finland (June 26) and Hungary (June 27) declared war on the Soviet Union in June 1941. They were joined by the puppet governments of Slovakia and Croatia. Japan and Spain, while formally maintaining neutrality, cooperated most closely with Germany. Germany's allies were also the governments of Bulgaria and Vichy France. By June 22, 1941, in addition to German formations, 29 divisions and 16 brigades of Germany's allies - Finland, Hungary and Romania - were deployed at the borders of the Soviet Union. That is, 20% of the invasion army consisted of German satellite troops - in other words, every fifth foreign soldier who crossed the Soviet border at dawn on June 22, 1941, WAS NOT GERMAN. And by the end of July 1941, when Italian and Slovak contingents joined the German forces, foreign forces had increased to 30 percent! And this is very, very much, I tell you.!