About the book: 2016 / Nowadays they are increasingly remembering the “dashing 90s" - someone with anxiety, and some with a secret hope for their revival in all its glory: with gangster lawlessness, thieves' redistribution of property, external Western control... The book by the head of the 1st department of the Department for Combating Terrorism of the FSB of Russia A. M. Platonov gives a high-quality “vaccination” from such unnatural desires to everyone who has forgotten how it was. For the first time, the reader can learn from an eyewitness to the events how the struggle to preserve the USSR went, which of the high-ranking inhabitants of the Kremlin in the 1990s had a hand in the political and economic occupation of Russia by the West, who and how he unleashed the Chechen war, shot the Russian Parliament in October 1993, and brought Berezovsky into the “family.” And why the all-powerful organization, designed to protect the Russian state, could not prevent this, but saved the country from further collapse.