The adventures of Maxim Zverev and other Popatans continue. Martial arts master, GRU sniper, ex-deputy minister of finance, former rezedivist katala and krav maga instructor - they all find themselves in the very center of the anti-Drezhnev conspiracy. But after the elimination of Brezhnev, the conspirators continue to remove other "Kremlin elders." The Soviet Union is changing rapidly... Maxim again falls into a different past - in 1984. Apparently, this is such a point of bifurcation in the history of the USSR. The point where a country could go one way or the other. But since in the distant 1977, thanks to Zverev and other "Popatans," changes have already occurred, Maxim falls into a completely different country. No, this is still the USSR, but some other. Soviet troops did not enter Afghanistan, but a civil war broke out in Tajikistan, neighboring Uzbekistan burns, and restlessly in other republics of Central Asia and Transcaucasia. Was it necessary to change something in the past