“Undershoot, overshoot, undershoot... The artillery hits its own!” - these tragic verses of the front-line poet drown out the victorious march “Artillerymen, Stalin gave the order!” For 20 years the Red Army was preparing for war against the rest of the world, promising to sweep away any enemy with volleys of “hundreds of thousands of batteries.” For 20 years, USSR factories forged weapons, producing mountains of guns and shells. Just six months after the start of the Great Patriotic War, barely 10% of all these colossal reserves remained, and the Nazis looked at the towers of the Moscow Kremlin through binoculars... Why did the famous Russian artillery, always considered the God of war, be overthrown from the pre-revolutionary Olympus and even in the victorious year of 1945 hit more often aimlessly, inaccurately, blindly, “in areas”, or even in one’s own? How did the insane buildup of arsenals with complete disregard for the human factor affect the combat readiness of artillery troops? Didn’t Stalin really understand that without trained commanders and gunners, without reliable communications, target designation and artillery reconnaissance, all his “thousands of batteries” remain useless iron?.. Answering all these questions, the NEW BOOK of the leading anti-Stalinist historian irrefutably proves: and the disaster of 1941 years, and the monstrous losses of the Red Army in World War II were programmed by unforgivable pre-war mistakes and crimes of the cannibalistic regime!