Boreslav Sklyarevsky, scientist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, political scientist. Since 1993 he has lived in the USA. In recent years, he has been working as a historical researcher to create historical and journalistic works on the history of Russia in the twentieth century, especially the Stalinist period. The entire history of the Stalin era and, above all, the history of the Great Patriotic War, today needs to be revived and cleansed of vile myths of lies and falsifications. This is especially true of the tragic pages of the initial period of the war, the dramatic events and causes of which have been desecrated and slandered to such an extent that it is very difficult for the truth to break through the thickness of slander and black myths. The author refutes these myths, leaving no stone unturned from the Khrushchev and Gorbachev-Yeltsin lies and falsifications, and reveals the true reasons for the tragic defeats of the Red Army in the initial period of the war, revealing to the reader a panorama of tragic and majestic historical events of the great Soviet people. Using rich factual material, the author shows how the education and creation of a national-patriotic climate in the USSR ultimately ensured the Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War and made it possible to preserve the Soviet state.