The collection presented to the reader is the history of the country in documents of the CPSU Central Committee and the KGB, telling about repressions in the USSR, mainly from 1937 to 1990. The collection is compiled from documents of the General Department of the CPSU Central Committee, which received KGB reports on persecution citizens of the country for dissent. The “secret” and “top secret” documents sent from Lubyanka {1} to Old Square {2} reported literally everything: the preparation of aggression against neighboring countries, the arrests and expulsion of dangerous dissidents P.G. Grigorenko, V.K. Bukovsky and others, about what the satirist M. Zhvanetsky spoke from the stage, what the artist I. Glazunov thought about... Compiled by V.N. Bredikhin, historian-archivist, former inspector of the Main Archival Directorate under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.