As is now quite clear, Stalin's "criticism" was a kind of preliminary artillery preparation for the subsequent attack on certain positions of socialism. Stalin was a kind of huge cliff that covered the state, without crushing which it was impossible to destroy this state. The lie about Stalin was presented psychologically calculated, and therefore effective. No wonder the best Hitler propagandist J. Goebbels said: "In order for the layman to believe in a lie, it must be monstrously implausible, brought to the point of absurdity." As Stalin was understood and understood after the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956. We can reasonably say: before the 20th Congress, Stalin's role was explained only positively. But, oddly enough, before that our country grew and grew stronger, and then vice versa. Is it accidental?.