In the 21st century, he was Aleksandr Kirillovich (Arthur) Alexandrov—an ex-GRU special forces officer and then, after an accident, a legless инвалид. But thanks to some mysterious twist of fate, he was sent back in time and found himself in the body (yes, yes—don’t be surprised) of his younger self, at the age of five. At the same time, all his knowledge and skills (and yes, he had appropriate ones), and all his life experience (and quite a lot of it) stayed with him.
How will his current life turn out? After all, it’s 1982, and the collapse of a huge and powerful country is still 9 years away. Can he survive the whirl that began because of him—more precisely, because of what he, unwittingly uttered, attracted the close attention of foreign intelligence representatives? But what questions and complaints could there possibly be against a five-year-old boy? He’s just a child!