About the book: 2020 / People always have many questions about their own history. This is because the history of any country is very often distorted and distorted due to the desire of its leaders to present the period of their rule as a purely ideal period of general prosperity. In history, they want to remain wise and fair. Therefore, for example, the Brest-Litovsk Treaty between Russia and Germany of 1918 was called optimal and saving at that time, then “filthy” and “obscene”; the guardsmen of Ivan the Terrible were called “Ivanovo Falcons”, then murderers . The Lenin and Stalin periods were proclaimed “glorious years of the formation of Soviet power,” and later they turned into the “era of the bloody regime,” etc. The author would really not like to continue such a verbal balancing act; he has a desire to call a spade a spade. That's why this book appeared. All the facts and events presented in it are drawn from documents stored in the archives of the KGB of the USSR, where the author happened to work in the 1990s, and from other documentary sources. Publishing layout saved in PDF A4 format.