Who first proposed the withdrawal of the Western Group? Kohl? Gorbachev? Is it true that Kohl was ready to shell out twice as many billions for the unification of Germany? Why is the former Russian Foreign Minister E. Shevardnadze considered a terry traitor in the Russian Armed Forces? Was E. Honecker mortally ill, who helped him escape to Moscow? Was General M. Burlakov really a "plowman" of the Russian mafia in the ZGV, how did the German press write about him? The author reveals many of these secrets in the pages of his book.