This book has gone through more than 20 editions and been translated into several foreign languages, which is not surprising, because the author convincingly argues that over the next decades the United States will cease to exist as an integral territory and a consolidated population. The book was written at a time when the United States were at the height of their power. After the collapse of the USSR, the collapse of the Eastern European bloc of socialist states, and the defeat of Yugoslavia, there seemed to be no limits to American power. However, the prominent Russian scientist and writer Oleg Platonov has debunked the main myths about this country: about American democracy, which is in fact a modern form of totalitarianism and dictatorship; about the powerful American economy, but in reality a sophisticated form of financial pyramid and parasitism on the resources of other countries; about American culture, which is anticulture, a means of decomposition and savagery of man.