Stalin repression. Black Myths and facts

Dmitry Lyskov is a famous Russian writer and journalist. His book is dedicated to the most acute theme in the history of Russia of the XX century - Stalinist repression. Contrary to the established ideas about the dozens (and even hundreds) of millions of “innocent victims” and even “executions of children”, D. Lyskov tells who and for what was actually repressed, gives examples of how the investigation was carried out, what articles of Soviet laws were most often applied To the arrested, what fate awaited them in the future, how many people suffered from the Great Cleaning of 1937. Finally, he shows how “black myths” about 1937 and in general about the Stalinist period were used to destroy the USSR in the late 1980s, and now continue to be used to strike in Russia, on Russian civilization