Two bestsellers in one volume! Refutation of key Soviet myths about World War II. A sensational study of the initial period of the war - from the "liberation campaign" of the Red Army to Europe to the "Tank pogrom" of 1941. Although the blitzkrieg is deservedly considered the invention of the "gloomy German genius," at the beginning of World War II, the Red Army proved that under favorable conditions it was also quite capable of waging a "lightning war" in the best traditions of the Wehrmacht, having arranged a "Red Blitzkrieg" in Poland, the Baltic states and Bessarabia. It was after this that Soviet propaganda hit the "hat-making": they say, we will "beat the enemy on his territory!," "With little blood, with a mighty blow!," "So that my Motherland shines from Japan to England!"