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[Alexandr Korol]

Introduction

The sixth volume is a necessary, inevitable attempt to remind all readers of what was in the previous volumes. Imagine this paradox: a person who has read the first, second, third, and fourth volumes of “Alternative History” believes and feels that they remember it all, but in reality, they do not. And since a person, after absorbing such a large volume of information, begins to forget what was at the beginning, they are, consequently, not ready to absorb new information. Therefore, I need to create this sixth volume to demonstrate how time and space actually work and to briefly remind and revisit the vast amounts of information I have given people in the five volumes. This is a way to refresh your memory and mine, to sober it up once again, and that is what I am doing in the sixth volume. In other words, the sixth volume is all five volumes but in a condensed format, simply to recall what was in the five volumes, because it is not natural for a person — it is impossible — to remember it all. And if I do not provide this opportunity now, in the sixth volume, to recall everything from the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth volumes, then a person will not be ready to absorb my new information in the subsequent volumes. Therefore, the sixth volume is a reminder, a recollection, a sobering of consciousness so that a person can once again remember what they have read in all my previous volumes of the novel “Alternative History.” And once again, I am demonstrating the formula, the matrix. That is, all my books are built according to the same matrix in which we live. And for you to understand, you see five books as five immense worlds, vast volumes of information — 800 pages — and all of it is condensed, which I am presenting once again, but in the sixth volume. I also want you to take note that I am still working on the fifth volume; I have not finished it. At the same time, I am creating the sixth volume, which you are now beginning to read. Additionally, I am simultaneously working on the seventh volume. The sixth volume is necessary. I am certain that each of you, after reading the sixth volume, will agree with me that everything I have recounted in the sixth volume about my previous five volumes — that in truth, the reader, meaning you as the reader, has either forgotten it all, does not remember it, or perceived it entirely differently. So the sixth volume is preparation for new information. The sixth volume is, once again, a recollection of what was in the previous five volumes.