An Alternative Variant

12 hrs. 28 min.

Language Russian

Author Vladislav Konyushevsky

Narrator Odin

What if in 1991 the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP) had won in Russia? Could democrats who adhere to Western “values” have come to power later? And what if the country had been led by oligarchs? What if the “parade of sovereignties” had ended with the disintegration of the country? And what would have happened to nuclear weapons then?

You’ll say these are too fantastic versions of events. After all, we know what happened in reality. Sergeant of special forces Sergey Kornev thought so too—until he met a scientist who managed to activate an ancient artifact and open a path into a parallel world. In that world, too, there is Russia and the USA—ordinary people with ordinary interests live there. But in the early 1990s, that world took a completely different path of development, and the former lieutenant finds himself right in the thick of the political maelstrom of that world, where a fierce war for power, resources, and territory is underway. And on top of all that, restless Arab militants are hunting Kornev—though now not in a parallel world, but in his own. A new work by Vladislav Konyushevsky in the style “Attempts at Return.”

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