The book by the famous historian and publicist Alexei Kungurov is dedicated to exposing the myth about the existence of certain secret protocols allegedly signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop on August 23, 1939, simultaneously with the conclusion of the non-aggression pact between the USSR and Germany. The author answers the question of who and why began to introduce mass consciousness this myth is about a conspiracy with Hitler, and tells how modern “historians” and officials fabricated the “original” protocols, found, according to the official version, in 1992 in the archives of the Russian President.