It seems that there is not a single painful issue of our time that the writer and publicist Alexander Melikhov would not speak out on the pages of this book with ruthless clarity - terrorism and drug addiction, Stalin and Solzhenitsyn, Israel and Kazakhstan, anti-Semitism and Zionism - and over time his judgments have lost neither depth, nor sharpness, nor brilliance. The main position of the author’s social philosophy: a person strives with all his might to overcome the feeling of his own insignificance, everything else is only a means of overcoming this. In the light of such a view, attachment to tyrants and national enmity are transformed from meaningless irrationalities into completely rational ways of achieving the desired goal. Which can be overcome quite rationally.