Alarming Spring of '45

1945. After demobilization, Major Aleksandr Vasilkov—the former commander of a reconnaissance company—returns to Moscow. Here he meets his deputy, Captain Startsev. Commissioned after a wound, Startsev has already spent two years working as a senior investigator in the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR). Startsev invites the commander to serve in the Criminal Investigation Department. There aren’t enough people, and the crime situation in the capital is like on the front lines. For example, just the other day “Priam’s Treasure” arrived from Germany to the USSR under the reparations program—nine thousand items found by Heinrich Schliemann during excavations of Troy. Criminals will surely try to profit…