Alla Pugacheva and Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Vasily Shukshin and Vladimir Vysotsky, Sergei Bondarchuk and Eldar Ryazanov, Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Makarevich - these star names are known to everyone in our country. Much less often they remember that they all grew up and became successful in the USSR. On the contrary, today it is considered good manners to complain about how hard life was for cultural figures in the Soviet Union, with what difficulty they made their way through censorship and prohibitions, how many stellar destinies were broken, how many brilliant films and manuscripts have been gathering dust for decades on shelves and in drawers... A new book by the popular The author leaves no stone unturned from these anti-Soviet myths, irrefutably proving that virtually all the “stars” of the USSR - even those who were anti-Soviet - succeeded not in spite of, but thanks to the Soviet regime, which is confirmed by the indisputable fact that after the “collapse of the totalitarian regime” and the “triumph of freedom and democracy” it was not possible to create anything commensurate with the masterpieces of the Soviet era. Yes, the selection system in the USSR was much tougher and stricter than now, but this is precisely what made it possible, by weeding out the husks and ephemerals, to promote genuine talents, which is why the great Soviet “stars” are immeasurably superior in brightness, scale and longevity to the current pathetic “stars” and “stars”!