Former submarine officer Nikolai Maltsev talks about the last “cloudless” years of the Soviet era. Realistic scenes of the life of the naval elite of our society of those years - sailors of the strongest submarine fleet in the 20th century - are brought to the fore. However, our compatriots subsequently paid very dearly for this “cloudlessness”. The author scrupulously tries to understand the reasons for the collapse of the previous social structure of our country (and with it the state itself) on the pages of his book.