1972. Oligarch

The expected GKChP has died down, scattering hot metal fragments and bloody splashes. Time has come to stop throwing stones and start gathering them. Mikhail Karpov is finally free to go wherever he wants and to do whatever he wants—within reasonable limits, of course. What he planned at the first stage, even if not without unpleasantness, worked. Now he needs to become the richest man on Earth so that no one—no one—can dictate his terms! And conversely, to become the guarantor that history won’t return to its previous crooked road. How to achieve this? He has to think it through properly… and put it into action. If it works, of course.