The history of the USSR is distorted and slandered in modern Russian textbooks. The Stalin era, the Great Patriotic War, the post-war period and the Brezhnev "stagnation" are portrayed as a period of continuous mistakes and crimes. The Soviet people lived, according to the authors of such textbooks, in hopeless poverty and constant fear.The author of this book, relying on figures and facts, refutes false fabrications. He shows the history of the Soviet Union in its true light: collectivization, industrialization, the so-called "mass repressions", the war, the 60s and 80s, the pace of industrial development during these years, the far-fetched problem of "general scarcity", etc. – everything is subject to careful analysis. And the slander of semi-official historians becomes obvious.