This story, still “perestroika,” has long been asking to come out, and its time, it seems, has come. On the anniversary celebrations of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, the story once told by my father and which is related to the planetary hero of the day, well... just requires a splash! But first about my father. He was born in the Khopersky district of the All-Great Region of the Don Army in 1908 on September 22 - on Joseph Volotsky. And they named him Joseph. We - three sons and a daughter of our father Joseph - his name in different situations more than once led us onto certain paths. Iosifovich! – that’s what it sounds like! But these paths are a different story. First, about Joseph himself.