Prologue In this story, the twenty-third congress of the CPSU was held from April 8 to 19, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-sixth. The agenda was expected: - Report of the Central Committee of the CPSU, rapporteur Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev - Report of the Central Audit Commission, rapporteur Nonna Aleksandrovna Muravyova - Directives of the Congress on the five-year plan for the development of the national economy of the USSR for 1966-1970 - Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin. Naturally, all these reports were unanimously approved. Then it was the turn of the elections of the central bodies of the party, which took place without any surprises. By tradition, personnel issues were resolved at plenums...