 The literature of the USSR in the 1920s, following the tradition of the demythologization of Jesus, created in the works Strauss, Renan, Nietzsche and Binet-Sanglé, put forward two main themes – mental illness and deception.This was reflected in the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita", in which Jesus is depicted (articulated by Pilate) as a harmless madman.It was only at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s that in the Soviet Union's propaganda won the mythological option, namely the denial of the existence of Jesus.