This book is about people who went through the war, and for whom the hard years are not just dates, but milestones of a common destiny with a people and a country stitched with deadly bullet threads. The characters in the book are not fictional literary heroes, but real warriors and home front workers. The author talks about them with extraordinary passion and some special truth. But the book is not only about the feat of those who forged and won victory over Nazi Germany and its satellites. This is “not only” - bitter journalistic notes about the decline in the power of the Soviet Army, which occurred as a result of the amusing reforms of the late 80s and early 90s of the last century. We are also talking about Chechen drama and many other things that are of particular interest.