About the book: 2021 / In various eras, many myths were born that contrasted “cultural and advanced” Europe with our “backward” and “barbaric” country. These myths were widely used in information wars and were introduced into historical science and the education system. They were replicated in fiction, films, and established as “generally accepted” cliches—about Russian “slavery,” drunkenness, and savagery. A new work by the famous writer-historian Valery Shambarov, “Russia and the West. Why will we win?»