The culmination of the Cold War between the USA and the USSR was not only America’s crusade in the Middle East - the “oil region of the world” richest in black gold, but also the game brilliantly played by the United States on the “great chessboard” - the conquest of Europe, which ended with the collapse of the Warsaw Pact . Behind any events there are living people. Who are the main characters of the 20th century Cold War, full of drama and political intrigue? Why did Margaret Thatcher see Mikhail Gorbachev as the political leader of Russia? Who in reality became the “roof” for Western agents of influence who penetrated the Russian political system? How and for what did the “ideologists of the new generation” act in the Communist Party, who turned into the “fifth column” of power?