World War II shocked the world. The Cold War almost brought it to an end. This book tells about both wars through the eyes of their participant, long-range aviation veteran L.V. Kasatkin, who graduated from flight school on June 21, 1941. With the outbreak of war, he was sent to long-range aviation. He was the crew commander of the Il-4. He made 147 sorties. He participated in the battles near Leningrad, in the Arctic, in the Baltic, in the Berlin operation from its beginning to the fall of Berlin. He was awarded three orders of the battle Red Banner, orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degrees, two orders of the Red Star, and many medals. During the Cold War, he opposed the Americans in the North, participated in the Prague events of 1968, was the chief pilot of Raul Castro when he visited the hero cities. He graduated from the regiment commander in Kamchatka, where he tracked the results of strategic missile launches.