The book by Igor Bunich, known for the bestsellers “Gold of the Party”, “Sword of the President”, “Nicholas II Syndrome”, “Tallinn Transition” and others, describes the events that led to the bloodiest war in the history of mankind. Two totalitarian regimes, intoxicated by the idea of world domination, they inexorably moved towards a brutal conflict. Carefully concealing their intentions, the general staffs of the Soviet Union and Germany prepared plans for lightning-fast offensive operations to crush each other. Thanks to global disinformation provided by the intelligence services of different countries, including his own, Stalin was in a kind of surreal world, from which he was brought out by the terrible blow of a surprise attack by Hitler’s armies. The book describes a fascinating picture of the struggle of the governments, general staffs and intelligence services of the USSR, Germany, England and the USA in the name of the future redistribution of the world.