After World War II, talking about the Nordic race became indecent, even criminal. Therefore, Andrei Burovsky’s new book can never be published either in the USA or in any European country. This is a politically incorrect, vicious, dangerous book. If you want to remain “decent” from the point of view of a Moscow intellectual, do not read it, do not even open it! This book explores an amazing mystery: why at all times the inhabitants of the North were leaders of world development? Not only in historical times, but even 20, 40 or 150 thousand years ago? Why were they the first on Earth to bury the dead, build houses, tame animals, use bows and arrows, and draw on the walls of caves? In the current times of militant liberalism and repressive democracy, it is not customary to think about these questions, it is even dangerous - any attempt to unbiasedly comprehend historical patterns threatens the daredevil with the indelible stigma of “racism” and lifelong excommunication from the scientific community. But no matter how “liberal” censors try to silence inconvenient facts, no matter how they persecute dissidents, no honest historian can deny the obvious: the founders of all modern civilization lived in a cold climate and were fair-skinned, light-eyed, fair-haired, large people, prone to being overweight. About the same as us.