About the book: 1987 / Fritz Michael Immele was born in 1920 in Ulm (Germany) ). In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, where he and others, according to the author himself, were trained to “kill Russians, kill communists.” Fought on the Eastern Front. After the war he worked as a theater technician and then became a computer specialist. Over time, he developed a desire to write, and, in parallel with his main work, he began to collaborate with various newspapers and magazines. Some of his reports about our country were published in the Soviet press. After repeated trips around the Soviet Union as a tourist, F. M. Immele himself became convinced of the falsity of all those stories about Soviet reality that the Western media present to their readers. This prompted him to write the proposed book to share with readers his impressions and reflections on what he saw. And not only in the USSR, but also in the USA, where the author also visited several times as a tourist. The book is of great interest for its relevance, wealth of comparisons and lively presentation of the material. It was written by a thoughtful observer, honestly looking for truthful answers to the pressing problems of our time, trying to understand and explain why, for example, in the USSR, despite the existing shortcomings, all Soviet people with great are optimistic about the future, while in the United States, which calls itself an “equal opportunity society,” millions of people are deprived of basic living conditions, and more and more Americans are looking at the future with pessimism, or why the Soviet Union is not interested in the arms race , while the United States is step by step pushing the world towards disaster... Other aspects of Soviet and American reality are also reflected in the book.