For more than half a century we have been told that 1937 was the darkest, bloodiest and most shameful year in Soviet history. That in the “terrible ’37” “millions of innocents” fell victims to the “criminal regime.” That in the course of political repressions, “the best of the best were exterminated,” “the intelligentsia was knocked out,” and “the army was beheaded.” That the main culprit and initiator of the Great Terror is J.V. Stalin. This book refutes all these myths, leaving no stone unturned from Khrushchev’s lies, revealing the true meaning of “Stalin’s repressions”, unraveling the main mystery of the 20th century. - Who actually unleashed “Great Terror”?—Why was it necessary to “cleanse” the army and party “elite”?—Did there really be an anti-Soviet conspiracy?