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Trojan Horse of Western History
Trojan Horse of Western History
To Lidia, Maria, Elizaveta, Svetlana, Gleb, Platon.
Be kind, develop your talents and love the truth!
Scientific readers: Victor V. Kondrashin, DSc, and Vladimir B. Kulikov, PhD.
Special thanks to Russian philanthropists Artem Suetin and Gennadiy Chernushkin, who helped to publish this book.
© Trojan Horse (rus. ed.) Piter Publishing House, LLC, 2014
© Translation A. Belyakov, O. Matveychev, 2015
© Design of English edition, Piter Publishing House, LLC, 2015
Alternative Introduction
We’ve decided not to write a traditional foreword, but to offer ten different answers to the question of what kind of book we have produced, instead.
Here they are:
1. This book is about the fact that the Trojans defeated the Greeks and not the other way around, as it is commonly believed.
2. This book is about the fact that the well-known Greek religion with its specific anthropomorphism was artificially created for some political reasons.
3. This book is about the fact that soft power, information warfare and falsification of history do not constitute innovations, but are the oldest essential features of the Western mind.
4. This book refutes the conventional wisdom that “history is written by the victors”. On the contrary, we have proven that the victors are the ones, who have managed to write history.
5. This book is about our postmodern world, where universals contradict one another, each of them entailing other universals as “my other”, and we have shown the horizons in terms of solving the problem of postmodernism.
6. This book tells the story of exciting journeys to both ancient Troy and to modern Troy.
7. This is a book that all will be able to comprehend, not only those educated in human sciences, because it is as bright, lively and entertaining as a mystery thriller.
8. This is a book of science, which opposes the fashionable sensational historical junk food that has recently appeared in bookstores under the anarchic banner of “Anything goes”.[1]