“Now that I am over 80 years old, looking at a map of Europe, I suddenly realized something important about the distant but memorable years of the 20th century, of which for more than 50 years I lived in a state called the Soviet Union. Even then, I visited all the countries of the Old World without exception, plus America, Mexico, Canada and Cuba. Somewhere - as part of party delegations, somewhere - as part of the delegation of the Komsomol Central Committee as a leader. At my age, you clearly realize that life turned out to be interesting, and thanks to the politics that I learned, it was also complex and multidimensional. I saw how the Berlin Wall was built, I witnessed the events in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. We found ourselves in America on the day and hour of the assassination attempt on John Kennedy. I just want to say: I can’t even believe that this was my life! But this is not the result; already in the “modern era” I created Russian radio and television...”, says the author Oleg Poptsov, whom readers know well both as the ex-chairman of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Company (VGTRK), and as the author of the books “Chronicle of the Times of “Tsar Boris”” , “Anxious dreams of the royal retinue”, “Full house in the Kremlin. There are no free presidential seats”, etc.