I also rewrote “Evaporate the Iron from the Blood”, it is such a sad and gloomy story, I wrote it in 1997, in Dallas, for the first time I encountered the power opposing us, and realized how soulless and terrible it was. Then I wrote this very bitter story for me. I don’t want to say that I anticipated events, but Yugoslavia showed that these are not fictions and one day can become a terrible reality. To the old version, I added the so-called Leningrad chapters. He described the Bundeswehr parade on Nevsky, four rows of Leopard two tanks, through the silent crowd on both sides of the street. It's a very heavy thing. The reworked ending turned out lighter than in the previously published version. Nick Perumov