"Mark Solonin accomplished a scientific feat, and all he does is a golden brick in the foundation of the history of the war that will once be written..." (VIKTOR SUVOROV) "The darkness of low truths is dearer to me than the uplifting deception..." Many episodes of World War II were described (or, on the contrary, were forgotten) from these positions. The famous historian Mark Solonin argues with such an attitude to the lessons of the tragic past. His new book deals precisely with those events that I would most like to forget: the complicity of the USSR in unleashing a world war, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of residents of besieged Leningrad due to the criminally insufficient supply of food to the city, the "Indian riot" in Ivanovo 1941, the atrocities of the Red Army on German soil, crimes of Ukrainian fascists...