Another day that will live in infamy

There is a legend that in June of 1941, an anthropologist opening the tomb of the medieval Mongol conqueror Tamerlane found on it an inscription that read, "when I arise from the dead, the world shall tremble", and within the coffin, another: "whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I".

Seventy-three years ago today, on June 22, 1941, 3.8 million German, Italian, Hungarian, Slovak, Croatian, and Finnish soldiers suddenly and without warning invaded their eastern neighbor, the Soviet Union, on the orders of the German dictator, Adolf Hitler, in violation of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact.