About the book: year / Article from the magazine “My Contemporary”. As a citizen of America, I follow with great interest the changes in your country, the expansion of intellectual, political and economic freedom. However, I would like people, as well as the Government of the USSR, to try to learn a lesson from the serious problems that really exist in the United States, and are not at all imaginary. As a role model, the United States is undeniably lacking in many ways. As Columbia University professor Fritz Stern wisely noted, just because “Bolshevism” lost does not mean that the American system automatically succeeded. It is clear that the States have not become healthier just because the USSR is “sick”».