This story has been written for a long time. Almost all my life. And life began with the Khrushchev thaw, with the struggle with oneself to preserve the clarity of consciousness, crippled by the ideology of the world revolution. It continued in the era of the decay of "mature socialism", when it was possible not to be silent, but also not to fall into dissidents. In the 1990s, the possibility of action opened up. Not in business and politics, but in the non-profit sector, where civil society was born. What came out of this, it is necessary to tell. Edition 2021.