Almost a larger total number of printed characters in the Western press were dedicated to him personally than to Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Of the living Soviet people, only Alliluyeva, Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn were ahead of him, but if you consider that Louis was not the General Secretary, the son of Stalin and was not married to Elena Bonner, he was ahead of them too. Victor Louis (Vitaly Evgenievich Louis) is one of the most paradoxical, amazing, unsolved characters of the Soviet era. In the words of W. Churchill, “this is a riddle, wrapped in a secret and packed in a secret.” The genre of the book is non-fiction. These are real events that happened to our hero in the historical context of the country and the world. With all this, the book is also journalistic: not everything told and thought about V. Louis is amenable to documentary verification. Much still remains classified as “Top Secret” and, as the authorities say, will remain so for at least another 50 years. Access to deficits: delicacies, foreign cars, real estate - was provided to Victor Louis by the sale, on shares with the KGB, of the most important deficit - political information . The monopoly of this foreign trade also allowed partners to sell their goods in a bad way. A disgusting grimace of socialism and an instructive biography of another of its great schemers.

Leonid Parfenov, journalist and TV presenter