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Today, July 28, is the day the First World War began
On July 1914, 28, the First World War began.
World War I is one of the largest armed conflicts in human history.
This retrospective title was established in historiography only after the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
In the interwar period, the name "Great War" was used, in the Russian Empire it was called "Great War", "Great War", "Second Patriotic War", "Great Patriotic War", and also unofficially - "German"; then in the USSR - "imperialist war".
As a result of the war, four empires: Russia, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman and Germany stopped their strategy. Participating countries lost more than 10 million soldiers and about 12 million civilians, and about 55 million people were injured.