“Lenin left us a great power, and we have lost it. li!” - Stalin said angrily in July 1941, but then, at the cost of enormous efforts and colossal sacrifices, the USSR was saved. Exactly half a century later, the insignificant successors of the Leader ruined the Superpower completely. How could this happen? Why, contrary to the will of the people, without suffering defeat in the World War, at the peak of its power, did the Soviet Union crumble like a house of cards? Was the Great Geopolitical Catastrophe accidental or natural? Should the death of Soviet civilization be considered “death from natural causes,” suicide, or intentional murder? By exposing not only the perpetrators, but also the masterminds of this “crime of the century,” the new book by the leading publicist of patriotic forces answers the main question of our history: How late. USSR?