Albert Makashov is perhaps the most prominent politician in modern Russia. At the mention of his name alone, the memory is transferred to the events of twenty-five years ago. Then the mighty Soviet Union reeled under the onslaught of the perestroikaists. General Makashov was one of the first to sound the alarm about the danger threatening the Fatherland. Then there was ’91, the collapse of the country. And as a result - the bloody ’93, the execution of unarmed people. And it was he, Makashov, who did not run away, did not refuse the Oath, and remained with the doomed defenders of the House of Soviets to the end. Albert Mikhailovich's book about the dramatic events of the country, about the time that fell to his lot...