This diary was never intended for publication. Only a few knew about its existence. His original was to be destroyed on Khrushchev's personal orders, but the photocopies were saved by Beria's secret supporters to see the light of day half a century after his murder. Very personal, extremely frank (it's no secret that even extremely cautious and "closed" people sometimes trust the diary with thoughts that in no case would dare to express out loud), records of L.P. Beria for 1941-1945 allow you to look "behind the scenes" of the Great Patriotic War, revealing the background of the key decisions that predetermined the Victory of the USSR. Stalin's closest ally, in fact, the second person in the country, during the war years Beria was not only the "right hand" of the Leader, but also his "dormant eye" - Stalin possessed all the fullness of information primarily thanks to his drug of internal affairs, sometimes went to the front even in makeup.