“I closed the CPSU” - memoirs of Yevgeny Savostyanov, deputy chairman of the KGB of the USSR and deputy director of the Federal Counterintelligence Service of Russia in the early nineties. The appointment to work in the special services was unexpected for the democrat and anti-communist Yevgeny Savostyanov. But the nineties of the 20th century in Russia were full of similar turns in the destinies of people. The author of these memoirs personally participated in the “funeral” of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, removed the “secret” stamp from the history of the Butovo training ground, where thousands of people were shot during the years of Stalin’s repressions, was the first to establish contact with the anti-Dudaev opposition in Chechnya, and was responsible for personnel policy in the presidential administration Yeltsin. Among those with whom fate confronted him were Andrei Sakharov and Mikhail Gorbachev, Yuri Luzhkov and Vladimir Gusinsky, Sergei Stepashin and Anatoly Chubais. The reader can expect to meet these and other politicians, human rights activists, and businessmen who, to one degree or another, influenced the course of history in the nineties. In the memoirs of Evgeniy Savostyanov there are many facts and details previously unknown to the general public that were preserved thanks to his diaries. The author does not pretend to be impartial - and this is a big plus of the book. This book contains pain and joy, doubts and attempts to comprehend the experience. This means that the reader has the opportunity to understand the people who once believed that Russia could become a free democratic country.