The book of the famous Russian journalist Alexander Sladkov is dedicated to his studies at the Kurgan Higher Military-Political Aviation School. The main actions take place in the distant Ural village of Uval, as well as in the garrisons of the Pskov region and Turkmenistan abandoned by God. Ski crossings, shooting, stubborn study of philosophy, history, psychology. Everything is solid and specific, it seems... But the author's life in KVAPU is a solid comedy. He tells how the training of ideological fighters of the USSR Armed Forces actually took place. How the cadets lived, which they feared, which was appreciated primarily by friends and commanders. How firmly vodka, ideology, women, communism entered their everyday life.