Europe was the epicenter of two worldwide upheavals that history knows no equal to. Currently, for the first time in many centuries, a real opportunity has arisen on the continent to permanently exclude violence from the life of European peoples. How this opportunity matured, what role the policy of the USSR and other socialist countries played in the positive changes on our continent, what horizons open up to the peoples - this is clearly, concisely and convincingly described in the brochure. The author pays special attention to the normalization of relations between the USSR and Germany. The brochure reveals the historical significance of the visit of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee L. I. Brezhnev to Germany.