About the book: 2012 / Twenty years ago, “glasnost and perestroika” proclaimed by Mikhail Gorbachev threw two investigators from the Prosecutor General’s Office into the seething political changes of the proscenium of Soviet political life - Gdlyan and Ivanov, and with them a new phrase: “Cotton business.” Then no one could have imagined that the investigation of criminal economic crimes allegedly committed in distant Uzbekistan was one of the key stages of the diabolical plan of the world behind the scenes to destroy the USSR. In essence, the “cotton affair” became a political mine planted under the Land of Soviets.