Nikolai Evgenievich Khokhlov (June 7, 1922, Nizhny Novgorod, USSR - September 17, 2007, California, USA) - captain of Soviet intelligence, who refused to carry out the political murder entrusted to him and remained in the West." In the winter of 1954, I had to make an unusual decision. On the scales were three human lives against two human consciences. I have no regrets about the decision. It could only be one. But further events unfolded differently than I expected. "My family went to a concentration camp, and I went to a distant and foreign country."