Book of the famous journalist Andrei Sharogo, in 1993-1996. - Radio Liberty's own correspondent in the Balkans (Zagreb), about the last decade of the history of the former Yugoslavia, about the collapse of its socio-political myths. How does the myth of the great leader appear and disappear? Where does the need to rewrite history come from? What is national war-era patriotism? What is the logic behind the theory of national exceptionalism? What impact does the crisis of public consciousness have on cinema, music, literature, sports?