About the book: 2009 / This book contains the wrong side of our post-war history. In the last days of February 1953, Stalin was vigorous and efficient and suddenly fell into an unconscious state and died painfully for five days. Was his death natural? The creator of the USSR nuclear shield, Beria, was shot with absurd accusations of espionage and the intention to restore capitalism. And what are the true reasons for the hasty reprisal against him? Secret political games in Russia from Khrushchev to Putin are revealed in the book of Nikolai Anisin, former special correspondent of the Pravda newspaper, co-founder of the Den newspaper, deputy editor-in-chief of the Zavtra newspaper, laureate of the Union of Journalists award USSR and member of the Russian Writers' Union.