About the book: 2014 / Stalin is still “more alive than anyone alive,” and the attitude towards him as an active politician is extremely biased, black- white, without halftones. He is either cursed - or praised to heaven, or portrayed as the devil in the flesh - or prayed to as a deity. This book goes against the grain, assessing the Father of Nations objectively and impartially, without hushing up his achievements and victories, without hiding his failures, crimes and losses. In this historical investigation, Stalin appears not as an icon or a caricature - but as a mercilessly effective builder of the Super-Power, ready for any achievements and sacrifices for the sake of power, an immortal symbol of the heroic and bloody era, rightfully named after him. This book proves: Stalin was not just a tyrant - but the greatest of the tyrants of the 20th century!