The third book of the trilogy “Minzags ‘Marty’.” The book is written in the genre of alternative history. On the night of June 1, 1939, the Baltic Fleet’s mine-laying ship “Marty,” heading after an official visit to the USA from Miami to Leningrad, was transported exactly 400 years into the past. Dissatisfied Komsomol members who criticize the leadership’s policies rise in mutiny. Most sailors do not support the mutineers. The “leftists” are suppressed.
The leadership of the republic abandons building communism as a goal and sets socialism instead. The republic establishes contact with the Grand Prince of Moscow, the future Ivan the Terrible. Then, step by step, it knocks the Spanish out of Mexico, Central America, and Peru. In these territories, vassal socialist republics are established.
Under pressure of circumstances, private ownership of the means of production is allowed in the republic not only for the invited craftsmen, but also for the very “Martians.” After Ivan’s coronation, the republic provides him with military, technical, and economic assistance.