About the book: 2011 / NEW book by a leading anti-Stalinist historian. Continuation of the bestseller “WE FOUGHT ON Coffins!” “Flying Guaranteed Coffin” - that’s what Stalin’s falcons called LAGG-3, which at the beginning of the war was considered the main “new type of fighter,” but was inferior to the “Messers” in all respects. The MiG-3, and even the Yak-1, not to mention the outdated Donkeys and Seagulls, obviously lost to the enemy. (How can one not recall the words of the Red Army Air Force commander Pavel Rychagov addressed to Stalin, which cost him his life: “You are forcing us to fly on ‘coffins’!”). Contrary to the pre-war “dizziness from success” and propaganda hype, “Stalin’s falcons” could not fight the Luftwaffe on equal terms - from the first days of the war, the Fuhrer’s “experts” seized undivided air supremacy, and our combat aviation, which outnumbered the enemy three times, demonstrated complete ineffectiveness and by the end of 1941 was knocked out by 90%, which cannot be justified either by the “suddenness” of the enemy attack or by the airfields that “slept through” the war. The backlog of the Soviet Air Force could not be eliminated until the Victory - no matter how good the La-7 and Yak-3 were, at the end of the war the Germans had already launched jet fighters into mass production! Refuting key Stalinist myths, this book exposes the scientific and technical inconsistency and the ineffectiveness of the totalitarian regime, for which tens of millions of lives had to be paid.