“Dead Water” was formed in February - June 1991 as a “squeeze” (digest) from our previous working materials called “Depressurization.” When writing it, the goal was to prevent the destruction of the USSR and the accompanying disasters, in the assumption the hope that the ruling party-state and scientific “elite” will come to its senses or be afraid, and will find the strength and courage to change the direction and concept of reforms in our country. This goal was not achieved. And only after the state collapse of the USSR, already in 1992, “Dead Water” was published in a circulation of 10,000 copies.

Many of its readers do not know the real history of the appearance of this work and therefore say that “Dead Water” was written in boorishly rude language, without any respect for the reader. But initially the work, which became a public book, was not addressed to the general reader at all, but to the leadership of the Institute of the USA and Canada of the USSR Academy of Sciences, whose “intellectual” leaders succeeded in shaping the opinions of the highest officials of the USSR on the further direction of the domestic and foreign policy of the party and state in all sectors activities.