The blood of hundreds of thousands of those sentenced to the “highest measure of social protection” is on their hands. Their cruel craft was one of the main secrets of the USSR. They did not talk about their terrible work even to their relatives and friends, did not keep diaries, did not write memoirs... this was what was believed before the publication of this sensational book. But it turns out that one of the executioners from Lubyanka still broke the “vow of silence”! Of course, he kept his notes secret. Of course, they could not see the light of day during the author’s lifetime, but after his death they were discovered among the personal belongings of the deceased and handed over to a leading intelligence service historian for publication. This book is one of the most shocking documents of the Stalin era. True memoirs of a Soviet executioner! Sensational revelations from a member of the firing squad, who personally participated in hundreds of executions, including the liquidation of the former People's Commissar Yezhov, and mercilessly and truthfully, in all the bloody details, spoke about his work, considering it an honorable duty and without doubting the need to destroy “enemies of the people.”< /p>