About the book: 1982 / In 1988, the millennium of the baptism of Rus' will be celebrated, which will be specially celebrated by the Russian Orthodox Church. In this regard, it is of great importance to familiarize a wide range of readers with the true history of the church, its ideology and politics. Based on a large amount of factual material, largely not covered previously in atheistic literature, the author debunks the attempts of modern theologians to prove the supposedly positive influence of Orthodoxy on the formation and development Russian state, education, science, culture, art.