A people plunged into poverty and war. Compatriots dying and being killed. A country, a once mighty power, on the verge of final destruction... All this is our bitter and cruel reality. The rise to power of the “democrats” in Russia was accompanied by a series of murders and suicides, often shrouded in secrecy. There are some among them that, for certain reasons, have received wide publicity. Marshal of the Soviet Union S. F. Akhromeev, Minister of Internal Affairs B. K. Pugo, poetess Yulia Drunina, singer and composer Igor Talkov, General Lev Rokhlin, journalists Dmitry Kholodov and Anna Politkovskaya, Colonel Yuri Budanov... Many are little known. But behind every death there are specific culprits. The outstanding publicist of our time, Viktor Kozhemyako, who was recently awarded the Russian Government Prize in the field of print media, remained faithful to his once and for all chosen principles and ideals of honor, dignity and justice, devotion and love for the Motherland. This book of his is about those people who have been killed by the inhuman life of the past for more than twenty years, about those who protested it with all their souls and could not accept it.