The reasons that I took up my biography are very trivial. For quite a long time I had to talk about some events in my life, and very often my stories came back to me in such a form that I did not even imagine the possibility of such “folklore” appearing. My stories were enriched with such “facts” that even I became interested in listening to them. The second reason that pushed me to such a “feat” was the fact that people periodically appeared who offered to write a book about me, and every time something stopped me. Once I even agreed to have an American writer record my memories on tape, and I spent several days telling her my memories and thoughts. But he soon changed his mind and refused this offer. Firstly, I had to spend quite a lot of time presenting and explaining what happened to me. Secondly, even with audio cassettes with my memories in hand, writers and journalists managed to distort everything so much that I was simply amazed. Moreover, distortion was observed both in the direction of exaggeration and in the direction of distortion of facts and outright lies.www.levashov.info