The novel “Cursed and Killed” was nurtured by the author for more than half a century and, despite the abundance of literature about the Great Patriotic War, it was truly a revelation about Russia, the Russian soul, the Russian character, about the relationships of Russian people with people of other nationalities, about the greatest tragedy a godless people sent to fight, weakened by communist experiments, genocide, and repressions carried out by our illiterate rulers. However, the high tragedy of the novel does not destroy the hope for the revival of man if he wants to learn lessons from such a difficult past.