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One of the largest intelligence officers of the 20th century, Markus Wolf, was the chief of the corresponding service of the GDR for more than thirty years. For a long time, his life and work were “behind the scenes” of glasnost. Wolf's memoirs will undoubtedly arouse the interest of a wide reading public. The author is a keen witness and insightful analyst of the events of 1989-1990, which radically changed the face of Europe. He gives his well-thought-out and reasoned version of what happened, constantly reflecting on the main question for himself: was what actually happened inevitable?