Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, like no one else, has the right to this book of memoirs. He has nothing to reproach himself for what happened. The price of his confrontation with Gorbachev, who betrayed the CPSU, was a breakdown of the heart, which could not withstand huge loads. Nikolai Ivanovich's memorable address to the Supreme Soviet: "You still remember the last Soviet government!" today, after a decade and a half of destructive liberal reforms, sounds like a true prophecy.