About the book: 1996 / Forced repatriation to the USSR during 1943-47 is part of our history, but not its heritage. In the Soviet Union they don’t know anything about this, or they know it through rumors and fits and starts. But these snippets and rumors have already entered the public consciousness, and in order to dispel them, in order to show at least a first approximation the truth of what happened, a huge amount of work is needed, and the work is truly free. Free in archival searches, free in expressing opinions, and most importantly, spiritually free from prejudices... What is the value of N. Tolstoy’s work, if it is not yet enough to fill this gap in our history? First of all, the completeness of the description, bringing together scattered facts - where, when, who and how they were extradited. Approximately 34 documents used in the book are published for the first time, and the author does not limit himself to such more or less well-known events as the extradition of the Cossacks in Lienz or the army of Vlasov, although here he provides a lot of new data, but describes the operations for the extradition of many categories of displaced persons chronologically and according to countries. After such a book, it is no longer possible to dismiss private evidence as “having no objective significance.” From this book, perhaps for the first time, we truly learned about the scale of popular resistance to the Soviet regime during the Great Patriotic War, about the reasons that forced more than a million citizens of the USSR choose Hitler's Germany as temporary allies to overthrow the hated communist tyranny. And only after the first copies of the book in Russian appeared in the USSR, many of the descendants of the Cossacks realized for the first time that the Cossacks did not die in the 20s and 30s, not everything was exterminated or scattered throughout the world.