1945... The Soviet Union secured victory over Germany in Europe and defeated the Japanese army in the Far East. It would seem that today absolutely everything is known about the events that happened seventy years ago. But that's not true. Not all archives have been classified as secret, and the documents that have become available sometimes do not reveal some mysteries, but, on the contrary, multiply them. In addition, modern historians and politicians in the West deliberately distort facts to suit their geopolitical interests. Is Stalin to blame for the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising? What was the “eighteenth moment” of spring without Stirlitz? Did the Vlasovites liberate Prague? Could the Germans have thrown the Allies back into the English Channel in 1945? Who dismembered Germany? Did Stalin know about the US atomic bomb before Hiroshima and who brought Japan to its knees: the American use of nuclear weapons or the Soviet throw across the Khingan? Who raped German women? Who were the Soviet marshals - mediocre butchers or skilled strategists? Who was lying in Yalta and Potstdam, Stalin or Churchill and Roosevelt? And who intended to unleash the Third World War already in 1945? As always, the famous historian and publicist Sergei Kremlev answers these and many other questions accurately and convincingly in his new book.