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Documents of the Soviet state security services declassified in Ukraine have become a real Klondike for researchers and journalists. Month after month, year after year, the stories found by Eduard Andriushchenko in archival files were transformed into articles for Ukrainian and foreign publications. And now they are published under one cover. The heroes of these stories are prominent artists and cynical murderers, agents and Chekists, fugitives and spies. Some of them sign absurd confessions, while others miraculously escape death. Some plan an assassination attempt on their relatives, while others are sent to camps because of their own talkativeness. Someone leaves daring messages for the KGB, and someone sees the result of his many years of work being destroyed. All these episodes allow us to better understand the complex and contradictory life of Ukrainians under Soviet totalitarianism.