The new book of the famous humorist-satirist Fyodor Makivchuk includes works written on topical and topical topics of our reality. The writer in this book debunks the bourgeois nationalists who fought in the overseas garbage dumps. A number of humoresques ridicule the remnants of the past, manifestations of morality alien to our society. In literary portraits, the author speaks with warmth and love about his fellow writers. "Strokes to portraits" certify a new facet of the talent of F. Makivchuk, a passionate publicist, an active fighter against everything that prevented the Soviet people from living and working happily.