Eldar Safarov worked as an instructor in the administrative department of the Communist Party in the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs for only a short time. Turbulent times at the beginning of the 1990s carried the young man from Baku higher and higher up the career ladder. And soon he was invited to work in the administration of the USSR President. Could the former investigator and successful lawyer have known that those were the last months of his service to the country he considered his homeland? The ninety-first year would roll over him and millions of USSR citizens, forcing them to wonder what happened that August: a great blessing or a great crime?