You will hardly like this book - it is about unpleasant. Falsified faith, duped hopes... A book for those who are not afraid to understand Russia with their minds and are inclined to doubt generally accepted canons. Famous political scientist Dm. Oreshkin shows how these generally accepted evidences are constructed, why they are introduced into the mass consciousness and what happens to consciousness as a result. The specific object of research is Stalin and the USSR, but not as real historical phenomena, but as epic images living their own separate lives. The author risked combining geographical, historical, economic-sectoral and sociocultural approaches for the sake of common political conclusions. Otherwise, it is impossible: the postulates of the Soviet faith are based on official figures and facts.