The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg delivered a fair sentence to the leaders of the Third Reich. However, the world did not know the whole truth about one of the most terrible crimes of the Nazis. On the basis of a huge array of documents, including those never published in Russian, Yegor Yakovlev convincingly proves: in the spring of 1941, German leaders secretly agreed on a plan for the partial destruction of the peoples of the USSR. His victims already during the winter of 1941-1942 were supposed to be from 20 to 30 million people. Such seemingly different tragedies, such as the destruction of Soviet prisoners of war, artificial hunger in cities, the burning of villages, the blockade of Leningrad and partly the Holocaust, actually came from the same installation and were links in the same chain. The book that you hold in your hands contains a fundamentally new view of Hitler's aggression and should serve as a serious argument for the official recognition of the genocide of the Soviet peoples by the Nazis. For the second edition, the author significantly revised the text and doubled it in volume. 2nd edition, revised and supplemented.