The book by the famous Russian journalist Alexander Sladkov is dedicated to his studies at the Kurgan Higher Military-Political Aviation School. The main actions take place in the distant Ural village of Uval, and also in the god-forsaken garrisons of the Pskov region and Turkmenistan. Ski crossings, shooting, persistent study of philosophy, history, psychology. Everything seems solid and concrete... But the author’s life in KVAPU is a complete comedy. He tells how the training of ideological fighters of the USSR Armed Forces actually took place. How the cadets lived, what they feared, what they valued most in friends and commanders. How firmly vodka, ideology, women, and communism were part of their everyday life. And also a mop, a rag and an AKM. Well, rock and roll with the CPSU. There are serious topics that the author touches on at the very end: everything that they were taught in the eighties turned out to be not a fairy tale, not a myth, as he himself believed. Already as a reporter, he had to see how “Western apologists,” as they were called in Kurgan, fought on his ideological front, in Russia, Ukraine, Syria, all over the world. And where they won, the real war began. However, this is a topic for other authors and for other books.