The third film in the documentary series The Last War.

The episode reveals what is really behind the Russian formula “culture without politics,” what tools Russia used to make culture a special operation to cover its crimes, and why the West still manages to mask the empire's conquest with the myth of the “great Russian culture.”

The authors try to show what really lies behind the “mysterious Russian soul” that has fascinated the West, to find out what truth is hidden behind the cultural curtain of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy, to explain whether it is possible for culture to stand apart from politics in Russia, why the empire has been stealing Ukrainian cultural treasures for centuries to pass them off as its own, and why Ukrainian art is so little known in the world.