Mikhail Gorbachev led the Soviet Union formally alone, but in fact together with Raisa Maksimovna. Only the country did not immediately understand that a family tandem had come to power. In January 2012, Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva would have turned 80 years old... Author Sergei Platonov - counterintelligence officer. Due to his professional activity, he not only had the opportunity to observe the heroes in person, but also to participate in events that influenced the course of modern history, which can only be told about now, and even then not all of them. That is why the reader learns about many facts and events for the first time. First of all, this concerns those information about the friendship of the Gorbachev couple with an agent of three special services, a prominent figure in the “Prague Spring” Zdenek Mlynar; about the true reasons for the murder of Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena; about the atomic project; about the strange role of Andropov in the rise of Gorbachev; about the circumstances of the formation of anti-Soviet and anti-socialist plans of Mikhail Gorbachev under the influence of Yakovlev and Shevardnadze; about how perestroika in the “Gorbachev version” was conceived and carried out on the initiative of the West. The author shows in a new way the circumstances of the State Emergency Committee, the true role in these events of M. Gorbachev himself - the first and last president of the USSR. In artistic and documentary form, S. Platonov shows how provincials Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev were able to lead and then destroy the most powerful world history of the Soviet Empire.