Why, at the peak of its development in the 60-70s of the twentieth century, did the USSR suddenly agree to cooperate with Western countries? It has now become absolutely clear that the Soviet Union did this to the detriment of its own interests and its own security. Those ambiguous processes were called “discharge.” They were followed by “perestroika”. And then the country collapsed. Of course, there are no easy answers. The direction of global development is formed from the directions of hundreds of vectors. But, of course, in this situation one of the main vectors was the vector of “betrayal”. There is no hard evidence that the Soviet elite betrayed their country. But if someone green sits in a swamp, croaks like a frog, jumps like a frog, then it is very likely that this is a frog. The book is fiction and all coincidences are accidental. But with a high probability the events at that moment occurred as described in it.