The book is a study of the causes of the processes that led to the destruction of the USSR, in historical retrospect from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Thanks to a systemic analysis, the author was able to show how the defeat of the Soviet Union was carried out from the outside and from the inside: with the active participation in this process of US information and analytical institutions and technologies and a number of betrayals on the part of the top leadership of the USSR. He managed to refute the myth of the “natural” collapse of the Union as an outdated socio-political and economic system, and also highlight the real reasons for the terrible tragedy that led to enormous casualties and losses of the Soviet state and the Soviet people. The book is supplied with little-researched documentary material illustrating the mystery of the death of the world's first superpower.