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The Soviet Union did not collapse in 1991, but continued its existence, replacing the soft-bodied and weak-minded intellectual Andropov, neutralising the promising, but still young and inexperienced Chernenko, power was usurped by the young and determined reformer GorbachevHe immediately abolished the “dry law”, for which his predecessors were so criticised, but at the same time began to tighten the screws. When Gorbachev finally resolved the Afghan issue in 1993 with a nuclear strike on Kabul, it became clear that the game of democracy was over and that the concepts of perestroika and glasnost had a completely different meaning than previously thought.
The blessed nineties are coming to an end, the Iron Curtain seems to be firmly protecting the Soviet system from the rotten breath of the West, and it seems that everything is cemented forever and will always be so. But something is wrong inside the red circle itself. Slowly and inevitably, changes are coming, and ancient prophecies foretell that the time of chaos is approaching! Oh yes, it is coming! And this time is not far off, because at night a red glow is already blazing over the horizon and on lonely trees in the middle of the fields where the last harvest has been gathered, crows caw with human voices, predicting the inevitable.
«God bless you! The Black Secretary General is a ghostly chronicle of a mystical quest that for an accidental journalist begins in a coal mine in the east of the country, continues in his own childhood, which turns out to be completely different from what he always thought it was, and ends in the capital with an ominous crescendo of an otherworldly game, the stakes of which are quite confusing and uncertain, but definitely the highest.
The game has begun, which means that from now on the only rule is the rejection of any rules. And Blind Fate with eyelids sewn shut with threads takes the heroes out of the black BOSS ball one by one, Ancient Prophecy scrutinises their personal files and places them on a sticky red board of the 90s, and crazy Fate in a straitjacket pulls the switch with his teeth and starts the rusty gears of the historical breakdown.
The characters immediately find themselves in a whirlwind of ominous and extremely confusing events. They negotiate and betray, carry out dark corruption rituals and get a deficit, blackmail and kill, revive Nikodimov and hold a session of the Verkhovna Rada, as a result of which some irrational things are confiscated from the deputies, and others are simply killed. They end up in the mysterious Red Collector, and then in the Vernadsky Library vault, where they study the secret archives of the Tablets of Power, and thus receive the keys to the last door, behind which, perhaps, the main prize awaits them, about which no one really knows anything, except that it is the most coveted for everyone.
