About the book: year / This book was published in 1947 and written by the Soviet officer Vladimir Sabik-Vogulov, who fled to the West. It shows the occupation of East Germany by the Soviet army and everything connected with the war against the German and Russian peoples. Many characteristic scenes, expressive dialogues and direct accusations of Stalin. Unfortunately, at the very beginning the author takes on a prophetic tone, foreshadowing the imminent fall of Stalinism (45 years before the collapse of the USSR) and declaring his desire to devote his life to the fight against communism, having probably been a member of the party in the past. His permission to transfer his fees to the account of the fund for the fight against communism also makes an unfavorable impression, as if his book, published in a small edition and hardly translated into foreign languages, could gain at least some fame, and as if he is acting as a herald in the field of exposing the regime , and not scribbling libels in the American commandant’s office. At that time, everything described was not a sensation (with the exception of naturalistic scenes) and there were books that were more detailed and more artistically written. They remained unknown only to those who did not want to delve into issues of human rights in the former Russian Empire. A distinctive feature is the lack of a plan, inconsistent transition from one point to another and an unexpected ending. Essentially, we have before us an unfinished article with elements of a work of art. The value of this small brochure lies in the fact that the situation is described by an eyewitness and is not described at all as it was done by official propaganda or as it is presented by a person who was not at the front and knows about everything only from later films. The same as the activity on occupied German territory, it was scary, not least due to the skillful incitement of hatred by official propaganda, the most famous representative of which was Ilya Ehrenburg, that Soviet Goebbels. Many officers were the most important looters and turned a blind eye to the atrocities. They are warned about the nature of communism, its desire for world domination. Approximate statistics of repressions during the existence of Soviet power are given. The fate of the author is unknown.