This book includes the best chapters of the super bestseller of the famous TV presenter Igor Prokopenko "The truth about the Soviet Union" You will not find in this book any exaltation of the Soviet period of history, nor its humiliation. The author speaks honestly about the great achievements and great crimes of the Soviet era. The uniqueness of this book is that the author, together with the reader, seems to pass through years and decades, noting important, but not always known, nodal points of national history. Why was Lenin’s autobiography not written? Did Stalin have a double? How did the USSR’s allies do business with fascist Germany during World War II? Why did relations between the famous marshals Zhukov and Konev deteriorate? Why does the legacy of the Cold War become relevant again? What is the difference between GOST and TU? How did one Moscow street become a mirror of Soviet history from the first years of the revolution to perestroika?