The book by the famous historian and publicist Alexei Kungurov is dedicated to exposing the myth about the existence of some secret protocols allegedly signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop on August 23, 1939, simultaneously with the conclusion of a non-aggression pact between the USSR and Germany.The author answers the question , who and why began to introduce this myth of collusion with Hitler into the mass consciousness, and tells how modern "historians" and officials fabricated the "original" protocols, found, according to the official version, in 1992 in the archive of the President of Russia.