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At the end of July 1991, a KGB report to Leonid Kravchuk, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, informed him of a scenario of a possible collapse of the USSR that had been predicted in the United States. The head of the USSR KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov, would argue that a few years earlier, the communist secret services had sensed the impending collapse. What was going on behind the scenes of the August coup, which made the collapse of the USSR rapid and irreversible? How did it happen that out of the four scenarios described in the CIA's forecast, Ukrainians chose the most radical one - "Collapse"? In this book, the author recreates the events of 1991 day by day. He cites until recently secret archival documents of the CIA and KGB. For the first time, he compares the memoirs of participants and witnesses of Ukraine's independence: politicians, historians, and writers. And answers the question of who really destroyed the evil empire.