Our consciousness is stuffed with myths. Some of them have nothing real behind them and are only a product of the folklore of modern civilization. But other myths are precisely man-made propaganda and are designed to hide unwanted truths from the masses. How to distinguish one from another? And where can we find the true foundations of our mass beliefs and misconceptions? And where to look for what is stubbornly hidden from our knowledge? The author of the book tries to differentiate this, understanding what mystifies modern Russians, and residents of the CIS, and Europeans, and Americans. The focus of consideration is the technologies of such influence, including the myths themselves around such technologies, and examples from the history of Europe in the twentieth century, including the odious myth about the death of the Hitler couple in 1945. We are told that “we should think this way” when in fact there is little reason to think so. This book contains exactly what the officialdom “has no desire to talk about.” According to THERE, it is better to believe in a myth than to convey the truth to the people.