Special forces are always special forces—both in the 21st century and in 1941. After being thrown into the Great Patriotic War, Alexander Teryokhin “reminisces about his youth” and his former service in GRU special forces. He takes up arms against the Wehrmacht and declares a sabotage war on the occupiers. Sanya becomes a real virtuoso of mines-and-explosives, an ace of sabotage warfare. He derails enemy trains and knocks out strategic bridges, burns tanks and armored trains, blows up ammunition depots and German headquarters. He alone stands for an entire reconnaissance battalion. He inflicts such losses on the Wehrmacht that the Nazis throw an elite Jagdkommando at the “sabotage man from the future,” with the order to destroy the “Stalin devil—at any cost!”