Stalin and Hitler never really met. And the result was that second war of Germans and Russians, which today - after the publication of new documents - can be considered the biggest misunderstanding in world history. But Stalin and Hitler met on the pages of this book. However, it is not an "alternative" version of that long era. Almost the entire book strictly documents the period before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and immediately after it - the 39th and 40th years... The idea of ​ ​ the meeting was in the air, Hitler spoke about it to his adjutant von Belov in the spring, and Ribbentrop to Stalin in the fall of 39th year. It was discussed in the correspondence between Ribbentrop and the Reich ambassador to Moscow Schulenburg in the spring of the 40th... Therefore, the virtual end of the book is just an illustration of how it could and should have been!