The hero of this book, Alexander Nikolaevich Shelepin, chairman of the KGB, member of the Politburo and secretary of the Central Committee, head of the Committee of Party and State Control, went down in history as the man who dismissed Nikita Khrushchev. Many believed that it was not Brezhnev, but Shelepin who should become the head of the party and the Soviet state. In this case, would the fate of our country change? Perhaps stagnation would have been avoided, and perestroika would not have been needed. And therefore, the Soviet Union would not have collapsed...