The tragedy of 1941 became the main trump card of the "liberal" revisionists, professional denouncers and defilers of the Soviet past, who, in order to achieve their goals, do not disdain anything - neither fraud, nor distortion of facts, nor direct lies: in their "sensational" writings, events are deliberately distorted, losses are overstated many times, rumors and gossip are presented as the ultimate truth, anti-Soviet myths are bred like dung flies in a cesspool... Sergei Kremlev's book is the best antidote to "liberal" lies. Leading Russian historian, author of bestsellers "Beria is the best manager of the 20th century" and "Why did they kill Stalin? "not only refutes the most evil and shameless anti-Soviet myths, not only brings clickshaws and slanderers to the surface, but also offers its own convincing version of the causes and circumstances of the 1941 tragedy.