About the book: year / Author's report to the Izborsk Club: This report discusses the following topics: - features of the Great Patriotic War/Second World War from the point of view Russian and world history; — the mechanism of organizing/unleashing the Second World War and the circumstances of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War; — the reasons for the Victory, its price and results; — the role of the Great Patriotic War in Russian and world history; — lessons from the Great Patriotic War from the point of view of today, when it is becoming more and more obvious that due to the policies of the United States (the North Atlantic leaders, the masters of the West), the world is one step away from a new world war.