The purpose of the strictly secret Operation Snow was to eliminate the threat of the emergence of a “second front” in the Far East. This is one of the masterpieces of Soviet intelligence. Operation “Snow” was a complete success - instead of the capture of the Soviet Far East, which promised great benefit, Japan got involved in a hopeless and lost war with the Anglo-Saxon powers in the Pacific Ocean. The author is one of the former heads of foreign intelligence of the KGB of the USSR, retired Lieutenant General V. G. Pavlov not only recalls his experience. His memoirs, in fact, can be considered a historical outline of the Kremlin’s foreign policy actions from Stalin to Gorbachev. Presented without embellishment, objectively and truthfully, it will interest anyone.