Personal file. Three days and a whole life

The author of the book, the former chairman of the KGB of the USSR, who existed for three days in August 1991, the State Committee on Extraordinary Regulation (GKChP) - sharing with the reader memories of his life path, reflects on the most important historical events, witness or direct participant of which he was. A significant place in the memoirs of V.A. Kryuchkova is given to the figures of the highest echelon of party -state leadership. Based on the huge amount of information that the author had as the chairman of the KGB of the USSR, in the second part of his memoirs, he talks about Gorbachev’s perestroika, about the difficult work of state security agencies during this period, about the activities of the special services of foreign powers in our country, analyzes the processes that led to the breakdown THE USSR