Lee Kuan Yew is Singapore's first prime minister and creator of the Singapore Economic Miracle. Under his leadership, Singapore from a poor country of the “third world” has become one of the richest and most developed countries. Who makes history? Masses or individuals? When it comes to Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister, such a question doesn't even arise. Because it was this person who managed to almost impossible - to defeat corruption, interethnic and interreligious tensions, to raise the economy, lying in ruins, to the highest level with the help of successfully carried out modernization. So who is he a politician who was admired by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, with whom such different people as Barack Obama and Xi Jinping dreamed to meet? How did he manage to create an unparalleled “Singapore miracle”? And is it possible to repeat his brilliant experience in another country? .