"At the end of July 1991, in the report of the KGB to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR, Leon

before Kravchuk was informed about the scenario of the possible collapse of the USSR, which was predicted in the USA. The head of the KGB of the USSR, Volodymyr Kryuchkov, will claim that a few years earlier they felt the approach of collapse. What happened behind the scenes of the August putsch, which made the collapse of the USSR quick and irreversible? How did it happen that out of the four scenarios of the development of events described in the CIA forecast, the Ukrainians chose the most radical - "Disintegration"?

In this book, the author recreates the events of 1991 day by day. He cites until recently secret archive documents of the CIA and the KGB. For the first time, it compares the memories of participants and witnesses of Ukraine's independence: politicians, historians, writers. And answers the question of who really destroyed the evil empire.