Artur Zadikyan
Binary code Mystery number three

Part Six: Binary Code-6. Ringing Cedars of Russia

Blood, soil or status? Which is more important to whom? Where is your homeland? Who are you by blood? Is your homeland where you were born? Many people born in the USSR believe that someone took their homeland away from them. In this book I write about those who regret it and plan to strike back. Perhaps they are wrong, perhaps mistaken in their definition of the enemy.

Rutra is on the trail of a mysterious ZKR organization, which you should already know about, and now he's going to infiltrate them, but in order to do so, he has to go to the Kola ultra-deep, and the stake is his life! His weapons are superhearing, super vision and mental communication with artificial intelligence.

You are what you think you are

Chapter 1: The Dulles Plan

After a couple of days, Ruthra was quite stress-free. He was even beginning to enjoy it, going through virtual reality. He had his own plan, and the main thing was that he had to develop a precise criterion for realizing that he was there. Realizing that it was almost impossible, otherwise it wouldn't be virtual reality, Ruthra decided to try to play by his own rules in any situation where there would be a similar scenario. He decided to change the course of events as he saw fit, but first he decided to identify, calculate and find the third party fighting in Red Square. To be more precise, they could not be called warring in the literal sense, but they were definitely a party to the conflict. Having analyzed the last session, he found the initial thread through which he intended to find the very "tangle" of strange rebels, who, if carefully analyzed, acted in tandem with the security forces. At least (and most likely) – they were commanded by one headquarters. Strangely enough, they were not hiding, and from their faces, which they did not hide, Rutra recognized their "spiritual" mentors. They were representatives of the fierce opposition, its liberal, pro-Western part. They were about to have a "big gathering", they were going to hold an emergency meeting, not anywhere, but in Switzerland, which had already become a classic of the genre. To get to their meeting was not very difficult either, it was enough to have a high-ranking patronage, which they loved so much. It was more difficult to calculate "people like him", "hanging out" between them, and even more difficult to calculate those who could trust all three conflicting parties in virtual reality. And there were bound to be some. Ruthra was almost certain of that. Of course, the Echelon-1 system would be aware of such subjects, but in a situation where there was clearly a conspiracy, asking for information might be suspicious for conspiracy purposes and might scare the "game" away. Ruthra was sure that previous searches had failed at this sort of thing, i.e., declassified.

A few days later, he appeared at their meeting as a low-profile but very influential official of the Kremlin administration. On him was to depend "coordination at the very top", admission to the elections and passage to parliament of their representatives, who, as everyone knew, were representatives of the international financial oligarchy, the American elite.

At the meeting, while still on the sidelines, as befits an opposition of such status, fashionable topics, statements, inferences, and assertions were made about the wrong path of development that the current Russian authorities are leading the country down. In order not to waste much time, Rutra "turned on" a special matrix vision, "photographed" and transmitted the material to the ISU-A2, and in a couple of minutes he could "pull" information about any "delegate" from his memory. While he was analyzing who was who, the conference itself began. After a brief introduction, the moderator introduced the first speaker.

– I now give the floor to our guest of honor, Mr. Medvedev, President of the Future of Russia Foundation.

– Good evening, – he began his speech. – Despite the fact that, proclaiming freedom in our country, the leadership veiledly pursues a policy of dictate, you were not afraid and came to the meeting. I am very glad and grateful to you for this. I want to say with all certainty that in today's Russia, in its power structure, only the faces and masks have changed, but the content has remained the same as it was "Gebesh". Forgive me for this terminology. I think everyone already knows what it means. I want to demonstrate how they use the propaganda they love so much to denigrate Western democracies. My story will be about the so-called Dulles Plan, supposedly a testament to the plan for Russia and its consequences. So. The Dulles Plan as a mirror of the "Soviet conspiracy". After the collapse of the USSR we began to quote Allen Dulles' "secret report" on the "American post-war doctrine against the USSR" – either in 1945, or in '48, or in '53: "…We will throw everything we have – all the gold, all the material power to deceive and fool people. We will imperceptibly replace their values with false values and make them believe in these false values. We will find our like-minded people, our allies in Russia itself. Episode after episode will be played out grandiose in its scale tragedy of the death of the most unruly people on earth; the final, irreversible extinction of its self-consciousness". This quote, but in a much longer form, is adorned on all left- and right-patriotic sites of Runet. It has been publicly read out by such prominent personalities as Nikita Mikhalkov, Gennady Zyuganov, and Andrei Karaulov. Although it has already been found out that this passage is taken almost unchanged from the last edition of Anatoly Ivanov's novel "The Eternal Call", published in 1981. Here this plan is outlined by an SS Standartenführer, formerly the head of the Tomsk security service. It was called the Dulles Plan in Boris Oleinik's anti-Gorbachev pamphlet "Prince of Darkness", with the explanation: "…for 10 years these words were thrown out of the novel 'The Eternal Call' by the censors under Kremlin-Zionist control." And the first outline of the Dulles plan was the monologue of the American General Dumbright in the spy novel Dold-Mikhailik's "And One is a Warrior in the Field": "Let's arm the lovers of a sharp word with anecdotes ridiculing their present and future. Poison the souls of the young with disbelief in the meaning of life, awaken interest in sexual problems, lure them with such lures of the free world as fashionable dances, beautiful rags, special character records, poems, songs. Quarrel the young with the older generation."

The speaker fell silent and after a few seconds continued:

– If the authors of "The Call" and "The Warrior" had read the so-called foreign press, and even in English, one might have thought that they had simply rewritten a document called "The Communist Rules of the Revolution". These "Rules," supposedly discovered by Allied troops in Germany in 1919, appeared in English newspapers in February, 1946, and were reprinted hundreds of times thereafter: "1. To corrupt the youth; to lead them away from religion. To instill in them an interest in sex. 2. Destroy old moral values by false arguments… 5. Distract minds from politics by turning their attention to sports, sex books, games, and other unimportant pursuits. 6. Put all media under their control. 7. Destroy people's faith in their natural leaders by portraying them in a shameful, ridiculous and offensive way." There were other documents of the same nature. On August 24, 1960, the Los Angeles Herald published excerpts from the pamphlet "Brainwashing. An Outline of the Russian Guide to Psychopolitics." The pamphlet was published in New York in 1955 by the Ron Hubbard Foundation, science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology. The Russian Guide to Psychopolitics stated, "By making drugs of all kinds available, by giving the adolescent alcohol, by praising his wildness, by feeding him sexual literature, the psychopolitician can cultivate in him the tendency to disorder, idleness, and useless pastimes that we need, and induce him to choose the solution that will give him complete freedom in all things – that is, Communism. If you can kill national pride and patriotism in the rising generation, you will conquer this country." The publication became the subject of FBI correspondence. A memo on the case ended: "The April 24, 1951 issue of the Times Herald reported that Hubbard's wife testified in divorce proceedings that he was 'hopelessly insane' and subjected her to 'torture under the guise of a scientific experiment.'" According to the article, competent medical professionals recommended that Hubbard go to a private clinic for psychiatric observation and treatment of his mental disorder known as paranoid schizophrenia." This conclusion should have been shared with anyone quoting the Dulles Plan. Although, in principle, it may be of no use to schizophrenics. They don't know they're schizophrenics. So somehow this is how Kremlin propaganda works. Draw your conclusions, and I'm done. Thank you for your attention.

The speaker finished his speech, nodded his head as if to bow and left the stage. After him, several other experts on Western democracy spoke, but Ruthra had nothing to gain by listening to them, biding his time. His brain, with the help of the ISU-A2, had long since finished processing the characters. Although there were quite influential people at the meeting, still their influence was minuscule compared to the global problem he was researching. Rutra carefully left the meeting without attracting attention, although the rules for entering this circle of people of such rank made it impossible.

Chapter 2: The Kola Superdeep

Already on the airplane, returning from Switzerland to Moscow, thinking about the ZCD, Rutra recalled his conversation with Omni. He remembered a fragment when he came up and in parting said one more of his assumptions: "If you want to find any associates of Alikhanov, I can advise you to look for them among the discontented, for example, nationalists or anti-globalists, although it is difficult to suspect the scientist in this. Perhaps they have socialized in the past." Rutra remembered that they had said goodbye with a slight sense of mutual distrust. Ruthra decided to check this thread as well, since so much work had already been done. As the proverb says, what the heck.

In a couple of hours, Zero had prepared an analysis of the conversations, travel routes, and veiled conversations of virtually all former and present scientists, military officers, intelligence officers, and persons with radical (and not so radical) nationalist statements, even if they were made in secret. From all the analysis, Rutra concluded that the most suspicious was that the most inconspicuous of them periodically visited abandoned military and especially significant Soviet-era sites, ostensibly to view the great achievements of the Soviet era. Additional analysis revealed that two sites were particularly active and secretive. These are the Kola ultra-deep well and the Protvino scientific center near Moscow, namely, a semi-abandoned ring tunnel 21 kilometers long, lying at a depth of 60 meters.

First of all, Rutra decided to check Kola, since there were no reports about the "gathering" there from all the structures. Rutra logically decided that her "visitors" could not be homegrown underground fighters. Intuitively, Rutra realized that the case was worthwhile and should be taken seriously. First, he wanted to "inspect" the site.

What was the well? The brain's "vault" gave out the following information: "The Kola ultra-deep well is the deepest in the world. Its depth is 12262 meters. It is located in the Murmansk region, 10 kilometers west of the town of Zapolyarny. The well was drilled in the northeastern part of the Baltic Shield solely for research purposes in the place where the lower boundary of the Earth's crust comes close to the Earth's surface. In the best years, 16 research laboratories worked at the Kola ultra-deep well, and they were personally supervised by the USSR Minister of Geology. In 2008 the facility was abandoned. The Kola ultra-deep well is associated with many improbable legends – about the "well to hell", from the bottom of which the screams of sinners are heard, and the drills are melted by the flames of hell".

To get there with the group that was meeting there covertly, Rutra contacted Sergei, a GRU officer that Hent had recommended to him as an assistant; someone he had "worked" with on virtual reality operations. It was a real person from the OAM department. There was no time to investigate why Rutra didn't know that.

Rutra did not hold general meetings, as was the rule at Zero. He didn't have time to do it because of his schedule, and the lists were controlled by the records department, whose head, an old, battle-hardened general, Rutra trusted completely. He shuffled the deck so that the staff of one department did not know who was in the other.

According to the legend in this operation, Sergei was a radical oppositionist, a nationalist, so he very quickly introduced Rutra to "his own" as an ardent anti-Semite. According to the rules of the secret organization – no one in the subsequent chain of contacts should have known the real data of the new associate. He had to be introduced to his superiors by an active member of the brigade who had the right to recruit. This was done without the knowledge of the person being checked. After the new member was verified by his superiors, if he was approved as a member of the team, he was given a secret name, a legend of origin and activity. Rutra learned from Sergei that the "bosses" were interested in influential personalities, preferably connected with the special services or the military-industrial complex. Rutra was presented to them as an employee of the Foreign Intelligence Service, who, because of his patriotic and world outlook views, had fallen into disfavor with the command and was ready to support and help true patriots in saving the Motherland for the sake of liberating Russia from the "yoke of invaders". For this Rutre was invented a wonderful legend, which was not particularly different from the true one, as in post-Soviet Russia there were more than half of them. Namely – labor and political activity of his parents, associated with the Communist Party, the military past of his grandparents, and his Komsomol past. Since the past of the Zero employees was simply "erased" from history and another one was invented instead, Rutra was not afraid of being exposed: the past matched. According to legend – Rutra was given a secret name: Yuri Gagarin (or Cosmonaut).

After the third meeting with the "like-minded" Sergei set them a task: they needed to find out – who was secretly meeting behind their backs and where. Sergei's specialization was a bit off, as he was only doing this domestically to improve his skills for such events abroad, so Rutra started meeting with "his friends" without him. He soon found out that the "especially literate", as they put it, and financially able were going to another convention. Rutra asked to meet with them, to which he was told that he needed a recommendation from "someone close to him." When asked if Sergei's recommendation was not enough, he was explicitly told that it would be a good idea to back up this recommendation financially. Rutra agreed, with a counter-condition: to help him to play a play to borrow money at interest from a Jew with the Ukrainian surname Andreenko, whom they were to "screw". This was an excellent way of showing them a positive side.

Rutra "agreed" with Andreenko under pressure from an acquaintance in the Prosecutor General's Office in advance. Soon the necessary sum was given to his new "friends" and in return they received the consent of the "older brothers" to attend their meeting. From the leader of the group, nicknamed Akella, Rutra learned that the leader was Professor Muromov, who wished to meet with him. Rutra agreed and went to the meeting a day later.

Muromov himself was unable to meet him, so Rutra had to impress his close comrade in the community. He was a long-retired scholar, a dry, thin, tall grandfather with a clear expression. They talked, and Rutra was well versed in history, though in some places he had to secretly use Isa's help. Ruthra had a very favorable impression of the man, and he said nothing vile. He was a true patriot, though a bit nationalistic; he explained that all nationalistic and anti-Semitic manifestations had grown out of the opposition to the Zionist worldview. The goal was achieved, and four days later Rutra attended their meeting in Protvino.

Nothing particularly "grandiose" or secret was going on there. The conversation was mostly about Russia's "traitors and invaders," as one might hear at a market, a parade, a party of law enforcers, or a meeting of bankers and ministers. Rutra realized he was being tested, and that pleased him. Their conspiracy system was professionally practiced.

Six months later, when Ruthra had had enough of these meetings and had begun to be distracted from other points of the test, he was unexpectedly invited to a small talk. The meeting was to take place in Protvino, in an underground tunnel. Kola was "scanned through", nothing important was going on there, though Rutra "smelled" something wrong, suspicious individuals did visit the place, but only alone. They were retired intelligence officers. His intuition told him that something important was going on, though it could have been a diversionary maneuver to catch the tail.

Rutra went to Protvino. In a dark room he was "interrogated" and "examined" by persons, some of whom were scientists, humanitarians, and artists, but the rest were clearly from the security services. And many of them, judging by their behavior, manner of conversation, and thinking, were or were members of secret and power structures. What kind of "hypnosis" they possessed, what secret equipment they used, Rutra could not determine precisely. But what they used, he calculated and passed the test perfectly. After another "interrogation" and interview, he was given "documents" that he was a member of an amateur amateur art group and a participant in the annual fair. Thus, observing complete secrecy, not sleeping at home, disconnecting the telephone, which, of course, he had warned in advance, Rutra found himself on Kolskaya. Namely, in a reorganized room at the Kola ultra-deep.

It was a gathering of seemingly quite literate people, mostly middle-aged and elderly, although there were also many young people. On the stage, at the table sat seven people, one of whom stood out because he was leading the process. It was Professor Muromov, just as he was described; tall, with a scruffy head of hair and small eyes, wearing glasses with large translucent glasses, a little heavy, but with a military bearing. When everyone was seated, he began the meeting by greeting the audience.

– Good afternoon, dear friends. I congratulate you – in spite of everything, we have managed to convene our congress. On it we should adopt our further strategy of action, but in the meantime I and our guests will give some lectures. I hope there are no objections to the organizational issues of the board and the protocol, which you should have read in the hall?

Approving voices were heard in the hall.

– I remind everyone to be extremely careful. According to information received from our security service and like-minded people from the authorities, we are being hunted, the chain dogs of the "Jewmassons" are on the trail, so everyone must act like Matrosov in case of failure. So, I will speak first. First, I will cite a famous statement of Pastor Martin Niemöller: "When they came for the Communists, I did not care, I am not a Communist. When they came for the Social Revolutionaries, I didn't care, I'm not a Socialist. When they came for the trade unions, I did not protest, for I am not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I kept silent, I'm not a Jew. And when they came for me, there was no one else to protest." Notice that they came for the Jews last, even though they shouted all over the world that Hitler destroyed them first! What, were they sitting around waiting to be killed? Didn't he offer them to leave first? This is the great Jewish scam to justify the creation of Israel. Now let's understand who is in charge in the US and NATO, and at the same time other countries that the US has colonized in various forms to date? Who is responsible for all the major atrocities of the 20th century? Who profited from wars, coups and crises?

"Well, yes, now I see why Alexander Ivanovich said they didn't have a single party man, that you can't serve two gods," Ruthra thought.

– Who is to blame for all the troubles of mankind, who serves Satan, who pushes people and nations together, who organizes wars? The answer is known – a number of clans or clubs of Jews: Rockefellers, Morgans, Rothschilds, Kuhns, Loebs, Goldmans, Mellons, Saxons, Dupons, Lehmans and others. These are the ones who have determined the course of humanity's development in the last 150 years.

"Here we go," Ruthra thought. He had an idea of the contingent that had gathered, and he had an idea of what topics were relevant to them. They weren't the only ones, though; they hadn't changed in well over a hundred and fifty years. So Rutra didn't really delve into it, his thoughts were occupied with the general factors that lead people to such conclusions. In this context, he began to detect a more momentous meaning in some of Mithra's statements or sayings. At times his hearing returned to the hall. Finding no new food for thought. the mind drifted off into other reflections.

– …It used to be believed that to control global financial flows, one had to have a controlling "stake" or blocking stake in it, which is physically impossible. A mathematical study by Swiss scientists has shown that for global influence it is enough to control 2-3 percent of the world financial web. And this is quite real, you just need to know how to do it. That's all for now.

The speaker finished his speech, the presenter thanked him, switched the microphone to himself and introduced the next speaker.

The floor was given to a rather famous person in the past – a former international journalist. He came to the "stage" from the audience and began his speech.

– Good afternoon friends, comrades. The topic I have prepared is called "The Three Classes of People". And now you will understand why. I want to familiarize you with some fragments of an interview with an American journalist, a correspondent of several news agencies accredited to the UN, which relate to the topic we are considering. So, I read, "There is a revitalization of the anti-globalization front around the world. The movement, which emerged in opposition to the formation of the world power of bankers, is a serious enough phenomenon, and it is impossible to ignore it".

Ruthra was getting a little bored. He was waiting for more. He knew about the man the speaker was talking about and his organization, so he was still preoccupied with his own thoughts, only listening from time to time.

– …Their favorite is Gorbachev. They are currently building a Masonic complex for him in San Francisco. They're predicting that he'll be General Secretary of All Religions. Gorbachev has received two King David Awards. There are not even any Jews who have received two awards at once. And the "non-Jew" Gorbachev received – for services to the Jewish people. All this was done within the framework of the Harvard Project… the words of American professor Nicholas Murray Butler, quoted in Ivor Benson's book "The Zionism Factor": "The world is divided into three classes of people: a very small group of people who direct the course of events; a slightly larger one – which follows the course of events; and the majority, which does not understand what is happening"… there is one "puppeteer" behind all of them… some secret group is not averse to organizing 1917 on a global scale… Economists in different countries have suspected before that the world is being spun by several giant firms… It is now, in the crisis, that it is decided – who is in charge. Crisis is when resources are scarce and the struggle for them intensifies. That's how animals on the savannah fight at a dried-up watering hole. In general, I think this is enough for you to understand the main idea. Draw your conclusions, and with your permission, that's all I have.

The hall clapped approvingly.

– The next participant in the meeting is the commander of our foreign unit, a specialist in secret organizations, Comrade Ernest Known. He will present to your judgment his research… or investigation, as you will see fit: "From Bilderberg to Gulagberg. The name, as you understand, is fictitious," the host announced, introducing the audience to the "delegate" who had come on stage.

Toth said hello to those gathered and began his topic:

– Dear like-minded people, I will read you an excerpt from my investigation, which I called "From Bilderberg to Gulagberg: the global elite is building an electronic concentration camp". From June 10 to 16 of this year, the 67th annual meeting of the Bilderberg Club was held in the Afghan capital of Kabul at the Inter Continental Hotel. The peculiarity of this meeting was that it took place immediately after the meeting of the G7 leaders and the V Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Kabul. At different levels of representation and from different angles, the same key problem was considered – the development of mechanisms of global governance....

Ruthra decided that he had wasted this time, too. The theme was familiar, and there was nothing surprising about it, in the sense that it could be heard among "truth-telling" intellectuals in a decent (or not so decent) bar. The obvious point here was to mark its cohesion and secrecy, and of course – some stimulation of the existing struggle with a superpowerful opponent. Like the previous ones, this speaker spoke at length about secret conspiracies and "those who want to enslave mankind".

– …Banks, intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, and Google are working in close conjunction. They are building an electronic gulag in which there is no place for the state, national sovereignty, or individual freedom. Everything they deal with is just a means for them to achieve their main goal – absolute power. That's the way it is, like-minded people. If anything, I am always ready to answer your questions. Write to me on e-mail. The address and method will be voiced to you individually by my assistants. Thank you for your attention.

The hall applauded again approvingly.

– Dear friends, I would like to give the floor to Comrade Gorbatov, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an honorary member of many international scientific communities. He called his report "Colossus with a clay head". May I have your attention, please? You have the floor, Zinovy Theodorovich.

– Good afternoon," the academician began his speech.

He was a man with a stern, clear gaze, military or athletic in appearance, smooth-shaven and neatly dressed. He was above middle-aged, with a slightly husky voice, which had a distinctive regional or ancestral accent.

– Dear friends, comrades-in-arms, I will begin my speech with the words of Gorbachev, the destroyer of the Soviet Union.

The topic was a beaten one as well. Ruthra tried to stay awake, occasionally listening to the topic.

– …And as a natural outcome of "perestroika" – the collapse of the USSR, the collapse of the Soviet Army, the hasty withdrawal of many of its units and formations from Eastern Europe and the Baltics to the open field, and so on… in his time, the head of Soviet foreign intelligence for several years published a number of his aphorisms. Among them, in addition to "shock democracy", there is such a one: "A colossus with a clay head"… this aphorism, as it seems, very accurately characterizes the Soviet Union in the last 6 years of its existence… In the preface to his book "Special Operations. The Lubyanka and the Kremlin. 1930-1950 years" Pavel Anatolievich wrote: "Whether we want it or not, but time passes, and what yesterday was a Great State Secret loses its exclusivity and secrecy due to major turns in the history of the state and becomes common knowledge – if only there was a desire to know the truth. Observing my military oath, I kept silent as long as the Soviet Union existed. When the activities of Soviet intelligence and a number of aspects of Soviet foreign policy ceased to be secret after the famous events of 1991 and all that I had faithfully served ceased to exist, I could not and had no right to remain silent.

About 20 minutes later and that topic was over.

– …Let me conclude my speech. Thank you for your attention.

Then the floor was given to two "former" top officers of the special services, who were now professors at the Slavic World Institute.

– Good afternoon, comrades," one of them began his speech. – My colleague and I would like to familiarize you with our research, which we have called "The Kaganate of Traitors, or How the CIA Conquered Russia. You can familiarize yourself with the full material from the report, which you will print out from the secretary after the meeting. Let me tell you right away – it is not an easy read.

This topic interested Ruthra more than the previous ones, however, after hearing a few famous names, and it became practically known before it even started. Ruthra tried to contact Isa, doubting such a possibility in this location, but the system worked clearly, the ISA responded. He made an intelligent, thoughtful face and glanced in the direction of the podium, and began to digest the latest analysis, not missing the main, important theme being presented by the storytellers.

– All right, let's get started. First on the list is a certain Egorov. This man does not like public attention, but he played a key role in bringing Sobchak, Putin and Medvedev to power. In our development, he appears as Agent Spider, and we explain the extraordinary success of his protégé by the patronage of the CIA. His name is Kolya Egorov, and he is also known as Putin's best friend and right-hand man. In 1970, this Kolya Egorov entered the prestigious international department of the LSU Law Faculty together with his friend, sambo judoist Vova Putin… But why did the CIA need to seize power at the LSU Civil Law Department? The point is this. While studying the Soviet system as part of the Harvard Project, CIA analysts identified this inconspicuous but extremely sensitive point in the Soviet system – the Civil Law Department of the Law Faculty of Leningrad University. For all its apparent modesty, it was university professors who determined the spirit and letter of the laws of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Civil Law Department of LSU was one of the most authoritative in this regard. Formally, the law professors acted as consultants, but in fact – who would think of arguing with the luminaries of legal thought in the field of lawmaking? The CIA considered this department as one of the key sources of legislation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and to seize power over this source was considered a task of strategic importance… Later, after the destruction of the USSR, the developments of the Harvard project formed the basis of the project to colonize Russia, and the CIA agents of the Cold War moved into the highest executive chairs of Russia… It was 1975. Meanwhile, Vova Putin was sent for introduction as a "mole" in the KGB, in the counterintelligence department for combating ideological sabotage. On the part of the competent authorities, he was to cover the activities of his friend saboteur… So, Kolya Egorov, agent Spider. Why Spider? Because he surrounds the attacked objects with his people, as if braiding them with a web, and when the decisive moment comes, it turns out that all the key actors are dependent on him, willy-nilly do exactly what he needs. Jews disguised as Russians were recruited by Spider with the aim of their introduction into power. All of Pauk's activities from the very first day of his stay at LSU were aimed at seizing power, first at the department, then in Leningrad, and then in Russia. At the same time, the same guys seized power in Gazprom and many other enterprises, they own all the most important things in Russia… They needed a Jew with a deliberately Russian name. However, if someone is corrupted by the mention of Jews, this "fifth point" can be ignored, we note the national factor only as the most logical explanation of the initial close unity of these people… She worked from 1987 to 1991 as an assistant professor at the Spider Department, now she is Deputy Head of the Economic Department of the President of the Russian Federation, Head of the Property Management Department of Gazprom, member of the Gazprom Management Committee. From 1976 to 1980 she was at the department, a graduate student of Ioffe… Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, a graduate student of the Pauk department – was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom, but in general he does not need any comments… Ilya Vladimirovich Eliseev, a graduate student of the Pauk department – now Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprombank, member of the Board of Directors of Gazprom-Media.... Anton Alexandrovich Ivanov, a graduate student of Spider's chair – first deputy general director of Gazprom-Media, chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation… This special service should have a "think tank" – powerful analysts, careful planning, operational headquarters, which would have information about everything that was going on. Smart organizers had to plan everything, distribute roles, bring their people to key positions in advance, coordinate their actions, provide motivation for each participant, think through many options for different cases of events – without this there was no point in blowing up the houses. And also it was necessary to have confidence in the possibility to use the fruits of their terror, that is, to guarantee a win for themselves, and not for some other forces. And it was also necessary to ensure a favorable attitude to their future victory on the part of the West and the oligarchs … An ordinary gang, even consisting of officers of the special services, such a task is simply not possible. Such things are not done by a handful of conspirators from the underground. Here clearly worked experienced professionals with great power. Who are they? This question is yet to be answered, or rather – to answer those who did it, those whom we will find out and reveal soon. Thank you for your attention.

The audience thanked the speaker with applause.

The presenter gave the floor to a man in military uniform, whom he introduced to the audience as "our permanent general. The general came up on stage, sat down at the table, moved the microphone, adjusted his glasses, opened a folder from which he took out sheets of paper, and began his speech.

– Dear fellow soldiers, I am not afraid to call you so, because we are a single regiment in defense of our homeland, and in current conditions – a guerrilla regiment, there are enough specialists among us, so let me present to your judgment my research "About the USA". And there you decide for yourself – about the USA or about the US missile defense. I think I will not take your thoughts very far. It is all the same field of berries. In recent months, military experts have been actively discussing the possibility of intercepting Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in the boost phase of their trajectory due to the accession of a number of Eastern European and Baltic countries to NATO. To what extent is this possible and how can the alleged threat be mitigated?

Rutra was a little surprised this time. Though the topic was clear enough to him. He was surprised by the way the question was posed, and why it had been voiced here. Though it was also a topic he was familiar with and had studied more than enough. He had to pretend to be interested in it. His thoughts were occupied with more global issues.

– …Despite numerous statements by U.S. politicians about the purpose of the national missile defense system to counteract the countries of the "axis of evil," an analysis of the composition, structure, and geographic location of the elements of the future missile defense system indicates that the missile defense system will have an anti-Russian and anti-Chinese orientation at its core.

…Otherwise, there are fears that under current development trends, Russia's combat capabilities could be significantly reduced.

The general stopped speaking, looked around the room, put the papers in a folder, then turned to the audience.

– Dear fellow soldiers, I have submitted my research for your judgment. If you have any questions, I am ready to answer them.

There was silence in the hall, for some reason no one wanted to ask questions, everyone took the speakers' statements on faith or was embarrassed to be accused of illiteracy, ignorance, or fear of contradicting their "superiors". Rutra figured this out by the method of "mind-reading" by facial expressions, behavior, eye expressions and other indicators that are not available to ordinary people. Looking around and seeing this universal unanimity, Ruthra decided to break the established tradition. He raised his hand, and the announcer pointed at him with his pointer.

– Do you have a question, Comrade Gagarin?

"Oh! I'm being followed. Or do I have suspiciousness syndrome?" – Ruthra thought.

– Yes, I would like to know what the current government has done wrong in what you listed; how much control do our military have over strategic nuclear forces? Can our rulers surrender the secret of ballistic missile launch control without the knowledge of the people? Maybe it's all a sham, maybe they'll just go out of control at the right moment? For example, as it happened in Iraq, with part of the military equipment based on foreign electronics, during the overthrow of Hussein.

– Very relevant and interesting question. You can sense the level. You, my young friend, I have the right to call you that because of your age, have very correctly pointed out that it can be a sham. Why? Listen to the following and draw conclusions.

He pulled a sheet out of a folder, looked it over, then looked into the audience, began to speak:

– As is known, the START agreement was signed in Prague with Russia's dissenting opinion on missile defense, which is supposed to guarantee the impossibility of a unilateral gratuitous U.S. nuclear strike on Russian territory. These guarantees are allegedly provided by the Americans' refusal to build radars on the territory of Poland and the Czech Republic. In fact, after the U.S. creates mobile means of controlling nuclear materials on the basis of "Inspector" technologies transferred to them by the Russian side under the sanction of the Russian Security Council, the U.S. side will have an absolute possibility to intercept all warheads of our strategic missiles in case of a retaliatory strike on the U.S. territory, since these technologies allow not only to inspect, but also to destroy any nuclear systems. The Americans will simply no longer need any locators in Poland and the Czech Republic. We are talking about one of the directions of nuclear relativistic technologies, abbreviated as NRT, namely, the creation of the first effective beam weapon based on a proton gas pedal on the reverse wave. This gas pedal can be placed on the Russian AN-124 ("Ruslan") airplane. Within the framework of the contract between the U.S. CIA and the Russian side, a full range of theoretical and experimental studies was conducted with the involvement of a number of Russian organizations equipped with appropriate gas pedal equipment. The expertise was performed by the Los Alamos and Brookhaven National Laboratories of the United States. The interception of warheads directed toward the United States, if they have such an "inspection" system, is as follows. Space stations detect missile launches from enemy territory, decimeter long-range detection stations in Alaska, Greenland, and, as far as I remember, in England, take warheads for escort and transmit target designation to Ruslan mobile systems raised on alert over U.S. territory. "Ruslan" conduct irradiation of the combat order consisting of warheads and decoys, reject the decoys and then focused beam of protons destroy the warheads. And over their own territory. And there is no need to strain with all kinds of radars neither Poland, nor Czech Republic, nor Russia… and the defeat of the territory of an unarmed enemy, since we, unfortunately, are forbidden to engage in this system for ourselves. I hope that many things have become clear to everyone, including the fact that the option of complete surrender of remote control of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles is possible, although I assure you that we as creators have taken care of this, so we need to prepare a replacement in the person of your generation.

When he said this, the presenter became very worried, wary, wanted to warn him about something or stop his speech. I whispered to him:

– That's it, that's it, that's enough.

The general looked at him, blinked his two eyes as if signaling or agreeing, nodded approvingly, and sat back in his chair. It passed almost without meaning to the audience, but Ruthra caught the "bundle of information". A slight shiver ran through his body, and his hair rose slightly. He couldn't believe his ears, his mind kept repeating, "…we as creators took care of it." Ruthra couldn't listen to anything else, but he had to sit down for the sake of conspiracy.

– Questions are desirable later, after all the speeches, write them down, and now I give the floor to our next, so to speak, fellow soldier, – restlessly announced the leader of the meeting.

After giving the delegates a moment to reflect on what they had heard, the chief introduced the next speaker.

– Dear friends, our next speaker is Nikolai Illarionovich Semeyko, a member of the security service of our bureau in fraternal Ukraine. I think there is no need to explain who needs enmity between two brotherly peoples, which was not even conceivable a short time ago. You have the floor, Mykola Illarionovich.

Chairman, gestured to the microphone.

– Hiya, brothers and sisters. The topic of my report is "The US Fed is pushing the world towards World War III". I will now give you many facts and reasons confirming my words, touch upon the situation in Ukraine, and you will decide for yourself why many events have happened, are happening and will happen. So, who benefits from war, who needs it, so to speak, as a method of existence? And the answer is simple. The war is necessary for the owners of the Federal Reserve System, for the large global financial capital. In Ukraine, processes are now taking place that lead to the unleashing of the Third World War. As I wrote, this is an attempt to weaken Russia and militarization of the economy combined with radicalization of national-patriotic sentiments.

"Yes," Ruthra said to himself, "I expected more from you. And still he listened in places.

– …Ukraine is included in the process of preparation for a world war. The economy is being militarized first. With the help of external funding from Britain, Israel, Canada and the United States, the population mobilized into the AFU is being trained in combat interaction with NATO units and weapons. In July, a military doctrine was adopted, where Russia was named as the main enemy, not even a potential, but a direct aggressor… This will be followed by a war for the return of Donbass or Crimea under control with a transition to a large-scale uncontrolled process – the beginning of the Third World War… Weakening of Russia by the conflict in Syria will give a real chance and reason to unleash a war in the West. In any case – the presence of several localized conflicts, in which Russia will be drawn, only more satisfies the solution of the task set for the U.S. foreign policy. To start, successfully complete the Third World War and collapse, taking control of the resources of Eurasia, Russia! The result will be the preservation of the architecture of international monetary relations created after World War II, led by the US Fed in the financial sphere and the US in the geopolitical sphere. We can firmly assert that Ukraine, carried away by global processes and led by its own government, is moving towards an imminent large-scale war. Who needs it – we have already found out. Thank you for your attention.

After the last speaker, a break was announced, during which many people went to the organized buffet, smoke breaks, toilets and just to "stretch their legs". The meeting was heading towards the end of the main part, after which the organizers and members of the "top group" were to stay. Since Rutra was a "young fighter", he was not allowed to attend the final part, so, to his delight, he could leave. All that remained was to listen to the chairman's closing remarks. The break was over, the ZKRovtsy went into the hall. The chairman, without waiting for silence, began to speak.

– Dear colleagues, I hope that, being already ideologically "savvy", you have once again realized who and what is opposing us. It is no exaggeration to say that they want to blur the boundary between peoples, nations and cultures. So to speak, to unite everything into a common "broth", which they will stir with a ladle as they please. And the peoples will not know in whose hands this ladle is, i.e. their fate and future. Or rather, the future will be taken away from them, and they will write the history as they need, which is already being done. Do you see how things really are? And now I will tell you on what spiritual basis the leaders of the world OCG are based. I will tell you the words of Rabbi Schneerson.

Ruthra wanted to laugh. He had guessed what he was going to talk about next. But he had to laugh at the reason why such topics were in the forefront of nationalist-patriotic ideas. He realized that it would be about a letter from Rabbi Schneerson of the Sanhedrin to the newspaper "Slav." It was a badly fabricated forgery.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, or Menachem-Mendl Schneerson, died in June 1994, having previously been paralyzed for two years due to a stroke and losing the ability to speak and write.

There has never been a spiritual administration of Jews in Russia. But there is the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia and the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations. The Sanhedrin disappeared back in the 5th century AD. This topic Rutra titled for himself: "On behalf of a dead man".

The speaker, meanwhile, had already begun his speech, and was listened to attentively, with interest. Rutra, on the other hand, was listening in places, just as before.

– …Our special tactics of struggle against the Red-Browns, and all Slavs are Red-Browns, is Secret Knowledge due to its closed nature. The main spearhead of struggle we will direct against Slavism. The Slav, or Russian, can be destroyed, but can never be conquered. That is why this seed is subject to liquidation, and at first – a sharp reduction in its numbers. Our methods of struggle will be by no means military, but ideological and economic with application of power structures equipped with the most modern kinds of armament for physical suppression of rebels with even more cruelty, than it was made in October 1993 at shooting of the Supreme Soviet of Russia. First of all, we will dismember all Slavic nations… We will try to bring these countries together. To draw them into internecine wars with the purpose of mutual destruction. Ukrainians will think that they are fighting against expansionist Russia, fighting for their independence, will think that they have finally found their freedom, while they are completely dependent on us. The Russians will think the same, as if they are defending their national interests, returning the lands "illegally" taken from them, etc… The largest Masonic organizations, the main of which is now Kehilla in the U.S., about 1500000 members. They control the main media and intelligence services, the main ones being MI-6, MOSSAD, CIA.

Rutra did not think it necessary to listen to the "brilliant orators" any further. Their speeches were just another attempt to show that the world was ruled by the financial masters and the characters they hated, whose nomenclature was practically the same to frighten the public. The authors of such opuses usually had no idea that the world is ruled by those who are indifferent to money. If they ruled the world with money, no paper would suffice. The final part deserved special attention. With minimal analysis it would have been clear that this was a "message from the grave," but no one bothered to check that. The main thing was that "the family lay on fertile ground", there was another reason to "turn the tables".

From all this we could more accurately conclude that it was just another "duck" aimed at strengthening power where it was desired and weakening it where it was desired. The Jews themselves were to blame for the appearance of such falsehoods, with their mental pleasure in exalting themselves and their importance, trying to protect themselves by means of this, which in fact turned out to be the opposite.

To Rutra there was nothing of interest here. Neither the people in question nor the speakers were of any importance to his investigation. He had already noted the most important things for himself, so he nodded understandingly, shook his head and left.

On the way out, the "security service" stamped a "document" handed to him, for his alibi, about attending the secret meeting of the group. It was a document about participation in the exhibition-fair "Stone Flower", held annually in the town of Apatity, which is attended by craftsmen from all over Russia. The other "visitors", apparently – depending on their competence, were given various "security certificates". It was a convenient disguise, as the town of Apatity is the scientific capital of the world Polar region. The town of Apatity is also the geological and scientific center of the Kola Peninsula. Most likely, that is why "documents" about attending various scientific seminars, meetings, lectures, advanced training courses were handed out. The diversity of the "scientific staff" was admirable. Among Rutra's new associates were "representatives" of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Clearly the place was not chosen for nothing. Rutra made a photographic picture of the delegates and was sure that he would find many of them in scientific institutions of the peninsula (and not only). The Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences includes 9 institutes, 8 of which are located in the city of Apatity, and 2 centers.

But what caught Ruthra's attention was not the variety of disguises, but the fact that the individual members of the secret group who were preparing for the secret meeting, in addition to the individual ones, were being issued a common document. This was done in a neighboring room, the entrance to which was blocked by a massive guard. Ruthra had figured it out after listening and scanning the space with his superhearing and supervision turned on.

Catching and filtering the whispering waves of the employees, sound waves reflected from objects, reflection from the glass of the cabinet window, he found one common important feature in this "vinaigrette" of data. Allegedly, they were all members of an amateur band with the ringing name "Ringing Cedars of Russia". For a moment the brain shut down, then received a "jab with an atomic needle," right at the tip of a neuron. Ruthra went into a "coma" and froze motionless. The brain was disconnected from reality, all its resources were directed toward solving the puzzle, for which a major clue had suddenly opened up.

The main clue was identical to the logical conclusion used by secret service personnel, and it read: "If you want something well hidden, put it in a conspicuous place." It turned out that there was no need to look for them, it was useless – they could be everywhere. And it was useless to calculate them – they could be out of hiding. But that was their secret. They didn't need to infiltrate anywhere, they were already there. Or rather, anyone from any service – secret, open or special – could be recruited. It was enough to suggest to the object of recruitment that he was of the same blood with them, that they were against those who wanted to destroy this "blood", to "prove" that it was those who wanted to do it who were in power – and the "client" was "theirs".

The thought of where the "tentacles" of this cosmological singularity could have penetrated took Rutra's consciousness to the moment of space-time, to the point where the timer of the Big Bang would start counting down. It turns out that this is what and who are the ZKR group, the "Ringing Cedars of Russia". They are united in spirit and blood!

The secretary's question brought him back to reality.

– Did you forget something? – He asked, looking at the shelves behind his back where suspicious items were stacked before entering the conference room.

It was forbidden to bring cell phones and any other equipment, so there were only watches, jewelry and other ornaments, notebooks, passports and the like. Even medications. Ruthra was about to answer him when his brain produced the next bit of filtered information: "…there's 14 kilometers there, if you put it in there, the explosion should cause a continental shift."

Without waiting for a reply, the secretary turned around and looked at Ruthra questioningly. With an effort of will, Ruthra gave a reply:

– No, it's fine, I was expecting you to give me Ernest Famous' email.

– Of course, no questions asked. He asked me to give it to anyone who was interested," the secretary said with an exclamation and handed Rutra a business card for the "head of the folk dance group," which had a non-geographic 800 area code phone number and an e-mail address.

– Thank you," Ruthra replied, and went to the exit, where a rotary bus was waiting for him and like-minded people of similar rank.

Ruthra's brain was almost glowing, her imagination trying to grasp the magnitude of the confrontation between the logic of what was happening and the cause and effect that had brought society to this state. The veil had evaporated, the masks had been dropped. Now it was necessary to find out who was who! To find out, it was necessary to carry out the plan, the plan that Rutra had been preparing.

Part Seven: Binary Code-7. Doomsday Time

My dear reader, we have passed with you the level where you learned about the top-secret organization, where information from all intelligence agencies of the world flows, were in the underground at the site "Polygon", which is a separate civilization, visited closed cities, secret laboratories, secret clubs, participated in battles and investigated in the virtual world. Now you will have to take a new turn of events, so steep that you may be washed away by a tsunami wave, literally and figuratively. Get ready, fix yourself in the seat of "Cactus" tighter, establish a connection through the chip in your head with your assistant – artificial intelligence ISU-A2, check the satellites, listen to your inner voice and be ready to see a new sky and a new land. Good luck to you!

Yesterday was a wild beast,

Today, it's a human being,

And tomorrow you'll be the one

Will usher new century

Chapter 1: Doomsday Clock

The next day, on his return from Kola, Ruthra was euphoric about his investigation, but still in a foul mood because it had not solved the main secret, but had confused things even more. It appeared the conspirators and instigators of the problem he was busy finding a solution to could be anywhere, perhaps the main bearer of the secret was not alive. Among other things, there was a lot of urgent business piling up at the facility because of all this latest operation. It was only the positivity of Rutru's outcome that made him a little calmer and allowed him to be proud of himself. All of his wanderings and conspiracy solutions, which Rutra had subjected himself to at his level, were not in vain and once again confirmed the rule: the higher your level, the harder it is to not be yourself. After the last operation, Ruthra began to understand why kings and emperors disguised themselves as commoners: to know exactly what was going on in their heads and what their subjects were thinking; Emperor Nicholas I, for example, had resorted to such methods.

Rutru was torn from his musings by Hent's call:

– Rutra Tigrovic, good afternoon, I realize you are in a bad mood, but I must remind you that professionals play by the rules, and you should know the rules.

"Without a magnifying glass I can see you're kents," Rutra thought of Henta and Jarovitovic.

The fact that Hent spoke ambiguously and in riddles did not surprise Ruthra; he was accustomed to it, and was well versed in "words that were not spoken". What did surprise and alarm him was that he addressed him so formally.

– Good afternoon. I'm listening.

– We need to get together. A big gathering of all the friends. The uniform is the same; shorts, slippers, Komsomol badge. The meeting place can't be changed. Gathering tonight, wear a hood, it might be windy or raining.

Ruthra guessed he was talking about the meeting at the board.

– Roger that. Anything to bring? A snack, maybe?

– It's all there, but you need something that's a little something, something about the eternal. I'm nostalgic for Indian movies, so if you've got something, take it.

– You know I can't refuse you, you're like a father to me.

– I'll be in touch.

– I'll be in touch.

Rutra was already in "thought," and after this he was lost in thought. Why so soon, why he did not call him, why he called and spoke "in ciphers" in an extremely encrypted network. Although it was all a game and a friendly performance. The meeting of the board was agreed in advance and carefully organized, with many distractions, up to the meeting of high-ranking officials, sometimes even presidents. Topics and reports were prepared from the collected materials by special organizations in the best centers. But still – something very serious was being planned.

In the evening, Rutra sat on the board. Yarovitovich was the moderator, as always. Those present sat in semi-darkness, wearing hoods.

– Happy future, colleagues," Yarovitovich began with a greeting. – Today's board should approve the final version of our action plan. Let's listen to the variants of a possible scenario and make decisions. I understand perfectly well that each of you has already discussed it many times, researched it, and with the involvement of well-known world institutions, but it is necessary for all of us to listen together at the board in order to make a joint decision. So, let's begin. Gentlemen, I ask you to listen to an approximate version of the consequences for the population in the event of a radical change in our plan, namely, if we have to shoot down missiles over Russia. You have the floor, my colleague.

A light built into the table lit up in front of the speaker, a man with a beard, wearing a pyramid-shaped hood, began his report.

– Gentlemen, colleagues, like-minded people, let me remind you that the Doomsday Clock shows half a minute to midnight. The position of the hands on its symbolic dial is determined by the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, which once included the creators of the first atomic bomb. Half a minute to midnight is an alarming number. There are several reasons for the current switch. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists board of directors justified its decision by the fact that the nuclear powers are modernizing and expanding their arsenal of nuclear weapons. Does this mean that nuclear war is really close at hand? If two years ago one could almost unequivocally say "no" to this question, now confidence in the unreality of such a scenario has significantly weakened. So: if there is a war tomorrow. Let's imagine that the irreparable has happened: nuclear war has started and American warheads are about to successfully reach their target. In this case, first of all, all forces will be thrown to ensure the safety of the country's leadership. After ensuring the safety of the country's leadership, qualified personnel, without whom the economy cannot function, will be evacuated. Alas, in the event of a sudden nuclear strike, the civilian population will have a hard time – the fortified bunkers will accommodate only a few people. The main measure to save the civilian population is its emergency evacuation 300 kilometers away from the epicenter of the explosion. In general, in the event of a sudden attack in urban areas, only people in fortified shelters, i.e. qualified personnel and management representatives, will be saved. If we talk about large cities, the only hope for the ordinary population remains the subway, but not all of them, but only deep subway stations.

The man thought for a moment and continued:

– The experience of detonating a nuclear bomb at the Totsk test site showed that over the next several decades, the incidence of cancer increased several times in people living in the area. This experiment shows that the use of nuclear weapons in a populated area is not an inevitable death sentence for all its inhabitants. It is important to understand that the use of an atomic bomb in a more densely populated area would, first of all, destroy buildings and people within a radius of several kilometers, but still would not make rescue measures meaningless. The only case in the history of the USSR when the methods of shielding the population from the radiation threat were actually applied is the Chernobyl disaster. The Civil Defense forces performed the evacuation scenario before the nuclear bomb explosion, and it is in it that the three-day period appears. The fact is that the activity of radionuclides formed during the explosion of a uranium charge decreases a thousand times in three days. Of course, even in case of timely evacuation a large number of human casualties cannot be avoided. Civil defense forces will start burying the bodies of the dead three days after the nuclear strike. The mass graves will be huge. According to a model compiled by British colleagues, an attack on Moscow would be carried out with 48 Trident ballistic missiles launched from submarines. The model assumes that the number of casualties in the 12 weeks after the explosion would be 4 million. The contamination of water supplies and the destruction of residential buildings will cause an increase in the incidence of all kinds of diseases, because radiation has a detrimental effect on the human immune system. In reality, the number of victims may significantly exceed the above figures.

– Thank you, thank you," Yarovitovich stopped him. – As they say, no one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten. I take it you have everything?

– Yes, Your Honor.

– Thank you. Let's move on to the next option.

Chapter 2: Nuclear War and Climate Change

– Another presentation on the topic of impacts, in particular climate change, from our colleague, the Master of the Academy of Sciences. You have the floor.

Yarovitovich did not turn his face, did not point at anyone. It was not quite clear how the next speaker realized that he had been given the floor. Apparently, there was one Master of the Academy of Sciences on the board. The area on the table in front of him lit up.

– I present to your attention a study on the topic "Nuclear War – Possible Climate Change". For many decades the threat of nuclear catastrophe has been hovering over mankind, and scientists of different specialties and all countries have tried to estimate its possible size. Direct destruction and mass deaths during atomic explosions, murderous radiation, diseases and many other things that await mankind in the outcome of a nuclear war have been repeatedly subjected to careful analysis. The conclusions have been horrifying and have disturbed great masses of people. And yet the published results did not provide a clear answer to the question of the possible fate of human civilization after nuclear war. The impression was created that a nuclear war could seemingly end with the victory of one of the warring countries. This created illusions and could be a source of tragic designs. With all the possible variants, no one from military and political strategists considered the option that a nuclear war would have such climatic consequences that mankind would in no way survive! In the late 70s, the Max Planck Institute of Physical Chemistry began to seriously study the phenomena of large-scale fires. The phenomenon of occurrence and development of a large-scale fire with sufficient oxygen, for example, in a forest with a strong wind, was called a fire tornado. Fire tornadoes have the following peculiarity: they eject a huge amount of soot-like material into the upper atmosphere and the stratosphere. The soot that rises into the atmosphere is practically impervious to sunlight. In other words, on the surface of the Earth under the canopy of these clouds, even on the sunniest day it will be darker than on an inclement moonless night. Naturally, not receiving light and heat, the surface of the Earth under the soot clouds will begin to cool down quickly. Hypothetically possible events will occur – "nuclear winter" and "nuclear night". After formation of soot clouds, the Earth's surface will cease to be heated by solar rays and the temperature will drop sharply. Already in the first month the average temperature of the land surface in the northern hemisphere may decrease by 15-20 and even by 25 degrees Celsius, and in some places remote from the oceans – by 30-35 degrees. As a result, the biosphere will receive such a blow that it is unlikely to recover and return to its original state. If life can survive on land after a nuclear catastrophe, it will be in a very damaged form. In any case, the higher animals will not survive the catastrophe. One can think that the same fate will befall the living world of the ocean. Indeed, the initial link of all oceanic trophic chains is phytoplankton. But it will most likely perish, although the ocean temperature will change only slightly. The reason for its death will be different: for more than a year phytoplankton will be deprived of sunlight – the basis of its vital activity. A nuclear strike on the biosphere dramatically changes the path of its evolution. The consequences cannot be predicted in every detail. The biosphere will probably not disappear altogether. However, it will undergo such a qualitative reorganization that will exclude the possibility of further existence of higher animals and plants, which will probably perish during the nuclear winter. It goes without saying that the same fate will befall man, no matter where he is, whether in the United States or Russia, South Africa or Australia. No matter where in the world a nuclear strike occurs (with or without retaliation), its climatic consequence will be a "nuclear winter" that humanity will not be able to survive. In addition to the climatic consequences of a nuclear strike, there would be devastating concentrations of radiation that would exceed the lethal dose over a large area of the Earth's surface, explosions of nuclear power plants, epidemics, and much more. My report is finished," the speaker said and fell silent.

The lighted section of the table in front of him went out.

Chapter 3: Nuclear War – A Pessimistic Scenario

After a short pause, the chairman of the meeting took the floor.

– Now, colleagues, let's hear two more versions of the consequences of atomic war. Optimistic and pessimistic. Pessimistic: "Possible scenarios and a review of the main hypotheses about the consequences of atomic war". You have the floor, Master.

Jarovitovich turned his face to the man sitting to his right. The Magister made a slight nod of his head and the area on the table in front of him lit up. Rutra noticed that the text of the report appeared in that area, but only when the speaker stopped speaking or pressed his finger on the spot.

– Dear colleagues, masters, gentlemen. In mid-December 2018, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War analyzed the consequences of a local nuclear conflict.

A couple of decades after the invention of nuclear weapons, scientists began to wonder about the consequences of their large-scale use. According to most apocalyptic hypotheses, in the event of a local or global nuclear conflict, colossal amounts of smoke and ash would be released into the atmosphere at once. Almost all scientists agree that there will be climate change. It is not clear just exactly what these changes will be. Some are inclined to talk about a sharp and significant increase in temperature, others – about its fall to Arctic values, others – about a slight change in temperature graphs. In any case, none of the proposed scenarios gives mankind a serious chance of survival: and if anyone can survive a global nuclear war, they will still die of hunger and disease. The number of casualties from nuclear conflicts of varying intensity could range from a billion to four billion, with a subsequent active population decline from epidemics, starvation, and poisoning. Within days of a major nuclear conflict, temperatures on Earth would rise. As a result of the nuclear explosions themselves, as well as the numerous fires caused by them, the temperature on Earth will become several degrees higher. The increase in temperature will lead to various natural disasters, including flooding of low-lying areas of land due to melting glaciers. In addition, the explosions will release a huge amount of nitrogen dioxide into the atmosphere, which will cause almost complete destruction of the protective ozone layer over the Earth's surface. Thus, the greenhouse effect will only intensify. According to the most optimistic forecasts, the "nuclear summer" will last one to three years, but many scientists are sure that it will be much longer.

The speaker coughed and continued speaking:

– There is only one difference between the popular "nuclear summer" scenarios. Some researchers say it will begin immediately after a nuclear war. Others believe that the summer will be preceded by a short nuclear winter. The "nuclear winter" theory has many opponents, who, in particular, remind us that since 1945, more than two thousand nuclear tests have been conducted worldwide, which is equivalent to a full-scale protracted conflict. Nevertheless, there has been no serious climate change. The theory of "nuclear winter" also does not take into account the greenhouse effect and heating of soot particles by the sun. In addition, as skeptics note, previous observations of large volcanic eruptions and oil fires have not shown soot and aerosols rising more than six kilometers from the surface of the earth. At this altitude, water vapor condenses rapidly on the soot, and it falls to the ground with rainfall in a short time. Consequences: the Fall variant. In the second half of the 2000s, researchers began talking about a "nuclear fallback." The program was developed by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In support of their theory, supporters of the "nuclear autumn", as well as "nuclear winter", cited studies of climate change in the Persian Gulf after the war between Iraq and Kuwait in August 1990. In January 1991, the Iraqi forces that captured Kuwait retreated but set fire to some 700 oil wells. The fires were not put out until November. However, only a fraction of the smoke reached the stratosphere and Asia was not affected. After the fires stopped, the climate returned to normal within a year. Almost completely the consequences of the global nuclear conflict will disappear only after 90-100 years. My report is over, colleagues.

Finally this speaker finished his speech as well, the lights in front of him went out.

Chapter 4. Nuclear War – An Optimistic Scenario

– Now let's hear an optimistic view of the problem. You have the floor," Yarovitovich pointed to a colleague sitting on the left, third in the row.

The area on the table in front of him turned on and a text appeared on it. Without a greeting, the speaker began his report:

– By the mid-1970s, the accumulation of huge stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in the USA and the USSR and the threat of mutual annihilation gave rise to many phobias among ordinary people. Thus, among the probable consequences of a global nuclear war between the superpowers as a result of numerous nuclear explosions were: the possibility of splitting the Earth's crust, changes in the planet's orbit and tilt axis, thermonuclear detonation as a result of underwater nuclear explosions of "heavy water" accumulated in the depths of the world's oceans. Mankind has never had enough nuclear warheads for this. People tend to exaggerate their own power, importance and, as a consequence, their ability to control large energies. The amount of solar radiation absorbed by the Earth in one day alone is many times greater than the energy consumed by the entire humanity. It is known that in the prehistoric past seismic and volcanic activity on the planet was much greater, but it did not lead to the extinction of life. Some volcanoes in one day of eruption emit into the atmosphere energy that exceeds the annual electricity production of any country. More than 3500 thousand volcanic eruptions were recorded in the 20th century. In large eruptions, the amount of energy released exceeds the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by a factor of tens or even hundreds. These eruptions often cause significant damage to the economies of individual countries and may cause loss of life, but they have had no noticeable effect on population growth. Numerous atmospheric nuclear tests have shown that mass fires are simply impossible in the shockwave zone. References to the example of mass fires in the nuclear bombed Hiroshima are absolutely incorrect. This Japanese city, where bamboo buildings prevailed, burned out not because of the impact of light radiation, but because of mass kitchen fires in damaged buildings, as the majority of the Japanese population at that time used coal stoves for cooking. Of course, there are exceptions: nuclear explosions in the vicinity of oil refineries, large fuel storage facilities, or oilfields are bound to produce significant soot emissions into the atmosphere. However, the experience of the 1991 events in the Persian Gulf clearly shows that the smoke from many burning oil wells and oil storages did not rise above 6 kilometers and did not reach the stratosphere. Proponents of the "nuclear winter" theory are fond of recalling the large eruption of the Tambora volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa in 1815. The effect of this powerful eruption resulted in some cooling, but despite crop failures and famine, there was no significant reduction in population.

The speaker fell silent, pondering something, and returned to the speech:

– It is likely that nuclear power plants, burial grounds, chemical plants, as well as volcanoes and supervolcanoes all over the planet, which are likely to wake up and release ash and energy into the atmosphere, will surpass the negative consequences of nuclear war itself. As for Yellowstone or other supervolcanoes – there is no reason to believe that the energy of 100-500 kiloton airbursts 100-500 kilotons apart is enough to trigger their eruption. The radioactivity of the explosion products decreases rapidly over time; in 7, 49 and 343 days after the explosion their activity decreases by a factor of 10, 100 and 1000, respectively, compared to the activity one hour after the explosion. Strikes on nuclear power plants, spent nuclear fuel storage facilities and nuclear industry enterprises are another matter. Destruction of such facilities can release thousands of times more radioactive material into the air than would be produced by a bomb explosion. In the event of a direct hit by a charge and vaporization of a reactor or radioactive material storage facility, the area of land uninhabitable would be hundreds, and possibly thousands, of times larger than the area contaminated by a ground-based nuclear explosion. The majority of the population would be doomed to extinction due to the destruction of life-supporting infrastructure, even without exposure to the destructive factors of nuclear weapons, and without food, medical care, and shelter over their heads. Nuclear war would kill a significant portion of the world's population, but millions would survive and retain key technologies. Countries in the subtropical belt, far from areas where nuclear weapons would be used, would be in the best position to benefit.

– Well, that's another topic. Thank you, we heard you," Yarovitovich interrupted him and continued on his own while the panel analyzed what they had heard. – So, colleagues, we have considered different versions of the reports, which were compiled on the basis of even more analyses. Now we have to make a decision. According to the calculations we have made, the optimal time for the operation is from December 25 to February 29 inclusive, and territorially over the Atlantic Ocean. Who has any arguments for changing the plan?

Everyone at the table was silent. After a couple of seconds, the head continued:

– So the decision has been made; may we have a bright memory in decision making.

From the edge of the table to Jarovich's left, one of his colleagues, a middle-aged woman, suddenly asked for the floor. Yarovitovich nodded silently as a sign of permission. She slowly began to speak in Japanese.

– Dear colleagues, we have assumed a great responsibility; perhaps, we will not meet at all or will meet after an indefinite period of time in another composition, so I will make a reasonable amendment taking into account the fact that we are taking such a risk. The amendment is as follows: to make a final and precise division of the territory and spheres of influence in Antarctica. After all, we still haven't determined the ecological and climatic consequences with certainty and precision. It is quite possible that this continent will remain the cleanest and will no longer be so cold.

No one made a sound. It seemed that the heartbeats of the sitting could be heard. The silence was broken by Yarovitovich:

– That's an excellent point. But let me note: if we have a way to resettle huge masses of population there or even if someone has a desire to fight for this territory, not obeying us, and to divide it contrary to our preliminary treaty, then, following the logic, in this state of affairs we should certainly have an opportunity to gather at the General Assembly and control the main forces. Accordingly, since you have indicated this subject, you are instructed to speak at the General Assembly and voice the main provisions of the international agreements on the spheres of influence in Antarctica. Speak so that no one was left in doubt that the subject was closed.

After waiting for a pause, the head summarized:

– If in the remaining time there are any proposals based solely on substantial, solid arguments, please send them verbally through our mail or openly, in a language that only we understand, through the media. The action plan is known and agreed upon by all, and we will proceed with its implementation.

The room fell into the silence familiar at times like this.

– Any other suggestions? – The Chief Magister asked.

There was no reply, it was clear that everyone was confirmed in their opinion and expressed the general solidarity of the representatives of the elected caste.

– Then let our meeting be declared concluded. May sanity protect us," Jarovitovich announced.

The attendees stood up as if on cue, and each headed for a separate exit.

Chapter 5: Brain-to-brain interface

After the collegium, the Zero Center was busy nominating a new Russian president. The plan was for the incumbent to resign early, hoping to win the election. But the head of a Duma party, known for his harsh and loud statements, unexpectedly wins. After his election, the first thing he did was to demand that the NATO bloc countries withdraw their armed formations from the former Soviet republics. Next – to extradite, return to Russia "all fugitives, thieves and robbers of our country". In addition to other non-business rhetoric, he threatens, if they ignore his demands, to "give them a little fireworks show," and "if that doesn't change their minds," he threatens to "wash their dirty souls with ocean water." Those to whom this was addressed maintained a cold-blooded silence, except for a few derisive remarks.

Everything went according to plan, and in early December, two Russian Project 941 Akula heavy strategic missile submarine cruisers went into the Atlantic Ocean. Usually, the citizen media sings odes to what a magnificent military we have, in particular – silent boats that supposedly pop up unnoticed off the coast of America, sometimes even in the bays of the United States. The same can be said about the media of NATO countries. In reality – everything is perfectly bugged and watched even from space.

One method of tracking conditions under and above water is hydroacoustic locators. Currently, the U.S. Navy's hydroacoustic locators operate in various areas of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as in the area of the Strait of Gibraltar and near Cape Nord off the coast of Norway. All of its components and surface vessels equipped with the SUR-TASS special tracking system are integrated into a single underwater tracking system. Hydroacoustic data from the receiving stations and regional assessment centers are fed to the Atlantic, Pacific and European Fleet CPs, to the Navy's Maritime Tracking Information Center in Suitland, Maryland, and to the U.S. military's central command structures.

Accordingly, the appearance of our boats off the U.S. coast was not a surprise to anyone; they were already expected. The situation was artificially agitated, the show went on as usual, but to make everyone believe that his intentions were serious, the new Russian president made an official statement at a press conference for Russian and foreign journalists. He said in his usual sharp and aggressive manner that if his demands were not met, if NATO troops did not move away from Russia's borders, he would give orders – first to launch and detonate a missile at high altitude, and then – to organize the explosion of missiles directly in the boat, simultaneously all of them, having previously evacuated the crew. "I hope you can imagine the consequences, if your brain hasn't completely atrophied yet," he said at the end of his speech.

Of course, everyone understood perfectly well that an explosion of such power would lead to global consequences. They even predicted the shift of the continental plate with the appearance of giant tsunamis, the height and power of which no one could accurately determine. And, of course, everyone predicted the explosion of the Yellowstone caldera with a description of the consequences that could not be compared with all apocalyptic scenarios put together; although there were some who predicted an "ordinary" tsunami with casualties and destruction comparable to the consequences of the hurricane in New Orleans, only in all directions of the impact force.

One way or another, the world did not know that no one was going to blow up, but that the goal was an excuse for another redistribution of the world, this time financial. Naturally, no one wanted to blackmail the "Russian bear," as Russia was often called abroad. And so, on the very eve of the New Year, "unexpectedly" for everyone, this very "Russian bear" makes an official statement that it intends to make a warning aerial detonation of nuclear warheads and informs about the danger of electromagnetic pulse, first of all, the airlines. This, of course, was met with multiple notes of protest, but mostly NATO politicians and militaries showed calmness and equanimity, although the public was "buzzing", especially on social networks.

Rutra began to suspect that the calmness of the politicians and military was due to a leak from Echelon 2, but he was assured that "everything was real," although it was clear that if Echelon 2 was not "making waves," Echelon 1 and the other levels were not worried, doing everything according to instructions. To make his intentions more convincing, the President ordered the submarine cruisers to surface. After the surfacing off the U.S. coast, which came as a shock to the public, as the public was reassured by the daily propaganda that this could not happen, "the Russians want to take a fright" – opinions changed radically. A brigade of anonymous hackers showed the world a supposedly intercepted secret report from the Institute of Physics of the Earth to the Russian president on the likely consequences of detonating the entire nuclear warheads of these submarine cruisers. This had the effect of an exploding bomb followed by a domino effect. Demonstrations, rallies and protests outside the Russian embassy, which had been going on since the beginning of the Russian president's threatening attacks on Western countries, stopped. People ran: some to buy everything, others to sell what they had.

The first to collapse was the stock market, its work was halted, followed by the rest of the trading floors, and a chain reaction went on all over the world. The next morning no stock exchange opened, and by lunchtime banks were closing. Discontent turned into riots and pogroms.

On his way to work, Rutra was particularly emotional about one scene. A crowd was rushing into a hypermarket, at the entrance of which a stately citizen, arms outstretched to the sides, was shouting: "I bought this center, I bought everything here, nothing is for sale." The crowd was pushing against the guards, who stood in front of him in two rows, heavily armed. He shouted to the guards, "Shoot, they will kill us all." The guards did not dare to shoot at people, they only fired warning shots in the air.

Another group drew attention to itself in this pandemonium. A man in civilian clothes, who was leading the group, shouted through the crowd: "This center is occupied by me, get out of here"; he ordered his "own" to "shoot in case of disobedience." A scuffle started between these groups of fighters, which caused the main crowd to disperse, and afterwards – they pounced, crushed, trampled on "their own" and "strangers", and started robbing the shopping center.

Two of Rutra's guards, this time FSO men who guarded him as head of the Special Affairs Division of the Presidential Administration, looked questioningly, waiting for a command. Rutra ordered to move forward, which was becoming increasingly difficult to do, even with the special signal, because of the traffic jams, "reckless" drivers, and special vehicles with flashers and sirens going in different directions.

Rutra got to the center by sidewalks, courtyards, and oncoming traffic. The soldiers remained guarding the entrance to the first building of the Institute of Statistics; they were not supposed to know the rest of the story. Rutra went down to the center and was told that he had to perform an urgent task, namely, to consider the possible consequences of actually detonating the entire ammunition of both submarines at maximum depth. Rutra was alarmed by this. First, because of the urgency, second, because the matter had not been considered before, but most of all because it had to be considered at all.

– Part of the analysis has already been done," Christina reported. – Now we are studying the possible impact on Europe.

– The data is nested in the system, the machine works," said the head of the computer analysis department, who had a degree in probability forecast modeling.

All past experience, combined with what was happening on the street and in the world, told Rutra that what was happening was not exactly what was being proclaimed. He remembered Isa's words to listen to his own inner voice. And that "inner voice" was saying that the family should be removed from Moscow.

Ruthra was busy sorting through the reports and analysis, skimming through them, his mind on other things. The main consequences were giant tsunamis and no less giant earthquakes with volcanoes "waking up". The basic information didn't give anything new. Henta and someone else was interested in concrete – how, on what area the degree of impact of the consequences of the explosion would manifest itself.

– So, what do we have? – he asked loudly, so the whole department could hear.

The first to respond was the head of the computer analysis department. He began, in his scholarly, military manner, to talk or report. Ruthra was used to it, so he didn't stop when he switched from reporting style to layman's terms.

– The formation of high waves in narrow channels, such as submarine basing areas, is possible. Resonant oscillations in bays can cause great damage to surface ships based there, especially aircraft carriers, as well as tangible damage to the infrastructure of naval bases, including their life support systems.

– Excuse me, please," Ruthra interrupted him. – What's going on right now? Is there something I don't know?

– Not something that is happening right now, let us say, but could happen. After all, this our "expedition" to the shores of America has the character of a cover-up. If an artificial tsunami will be caused, then only deliberately, organized and in the right direction.

– I developed this option myself, I know that. You tell me, were there any orders other than mine?

– Uh, no.

– Then go ahead.

– In principle, at the current level of technology development, such a thing is quite possible. Similar principles can be used to control for military purposes such no less formidable natural phenomenon as a hurricane, which refers to the field of hydroclimatic regime management.

– I'm sorry, I have to interrupt you again. Can you tell me exactly what's going to happen?

– With this plan, with this formulation of the question, I don't think anyone will take the responsibility to say exactly what will happen. I just want to say that there are quite normal, if you can call it that, methods of affecting nature. And I also want to say that it is still very unpredictable, first of all, the consequences in the long run. I am telling you this so that you have information from which to choose.

A sustainability corridor is a state of the biosphere and society that allows us to preserve our civilization. Today we do not fully realize how large this "corridor" is and how significant the deviations that already exist are.

The detonation of a few hydrogen bombs embedded in ocean ridges could well reconfigure ocean currents. This would result in huge regions being frozen. Another option would involve, for example, an underwater nuclear explosion in the Black Sea and the release of large masses of hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere, which would also cause great loss of life.

The professor fell silent, Ruthra began to clap his hands.

– That's great. Now, what does that have to do with our question?

– Directly," the professor replied. – The point is that no one takes our president's statement seriously.

– It's not our problem, we were given a clear order to play out the play and identify the possible consequences if the play had to be converted into a documentary format. Besides, if it wasn't taken seriously… Have you seen what's going on around here? So, purely hypothetically, if you blow up the entire ammunition of both boats, what happens?

– The end of the world.

– More specific?

– Have you seen the movie "2012"? Something like that. I can't even be more specific than that. The wave will cover Europe, Africa and both Americas, and all the volcanoes will wake up. I think that in a sane mind can not even discuss this option.

– Will China and India survive?

– Yes, but that's also purely hypothetical. The volcanoes of Tibet and the Himalayas would make life in that area a living hell.

– Why didn't earlier studies paint such a catastrophic picture?

– Because no one took it seriously, but now the issue has come to a head, and everyone has really started making calculations. This is also, you see, time and tension. You can say this and that, but to actually calculate, you have to process a huge amount of information. The latest calculations say what I told you.

– That's the way I see it – not quite and last. I need more precise figures. In an hour, I have to go over it with Hent and the team with revised figures. Did you just say the Black Sea incidentally, or was there a request?

– There was a request.

– Then don't forget about him. What's the machine come up with, isn't the data ready?

– There is something," Christina said.

She had been assigned by Rutra to be the senior in the group, so she had all the data detailed from all the reports.

– Which is what?

– There are many possibilities, depending on the depth of the explosion. The consequences are terrible in every case.

– What's the worst one?

– At the boat's submersion depth limit.

– It's just crazy to consider these options," the professor persisted.

– What kind of machine was the analysis done on? – Ruthra asked.

A strange thought suddenly occurred to him.

– On the main supercomputer.

– The code number? – he asked, who knew perfectly well the situation had suddenly become extremely serious for him.

"The 'veil' of the joke fell away, and Rutra presented the actual embodiment of what was being analyzed.

– OSC-1.

– Is it integrated into any systems other than ours?

– No, we're the only ones who can enter data into it.

– How does she get the analysis data from the worldwide database? Only through our filter?

– Yeah. (chuckles)

– And no one but us is getting data from it?

– Uh, no.

– And Hent's block?

– Only through our server.

– Directly?

– Directly.

– Who, other than us, maintains control of this data?

– The protocols are analyzed by a control system off the station. It's run directly by Hent.

– Off-station how? Is it the audit department that Hent directly reports to?

– Not exactly a department. Data, incoming and outgoing, goes through the registration and authorization unit.

– Where is it located?

– I think it is only in your competence or exactly in Hent's competence. Only after revisionary processing is the data put to work, allowed to be edited and analyzed. It's the same way back.

– What is the name of this registration and authorization unit?

– That's what it's called.

– And has it always been like this, before my appointment and after?

– Yes, and before you came here. As far as I know, it's always been like that. No one paid attention to it, no one was interested. What do you see in it, Rutra Tigrovich? There must be control, right?

– Control? We seem to be in control of everyone! Or do we?

– Rutra Tigrovich, do you have any questions for me? – The professor asked.

– You have outlined the situation in general, but not in specifics. What really awaits us if this scenario comes true? Will the Urals region, for example, survive?

– The waves won't get there, of course, but maybe even those volcanoes will wake up. The atmosphere will be ruined everywhere.

– Rutra Tigrovich, any questions about the machine processing data? -Kristina's voice began to tremble a little.

Apparently the professor wasn't the only one now realizing the consequences.

– Check. What is the height and threshold of the waves' destructive action?

– The machine gives out different variants, with the most powerful one – they will reach the Caucasus, – answered Christina and looked fearfully into the written on the screen.

Everyone in the hall was silent, realizing what they had heard.

– Waves aren't the worst, earthquakes and volcanoes are the worst," came the professor's quiet voice.

Everyone continued to remain silent.

– Christina, how does this registration and permitting unit respond to this kind of data? Does it issue any recommendations, prohibitions?

– Recommendations.

– Like what?

– Exactly that, consider this option. So to speak, just in case, what happens if, uh.

– If anything?

– If anything goes wrong.

– I need to discuss this with Hent, we may be missing something.

– That's right," the professor said loudly. – This is where we should have started. A very good decision.

– For Hent, this block is also listed as a registration and permitting block so I can explain it to him properly?

– I don't know, I only see Hent when he comes here, and I'm afraid to ask too much," Christina replied. – It's your prerogative to talk to your superiors in a patronizing manner.

– And yet, as the documents from there, who do they come from? What do I tell him? From your block, your office, your server? How's he gonna look for them?

– No, give me the code number for this unit.

– Which one?

– ISU-A2," Christine said calmly, while Rutra had another brain-bursting session.

He felt an electric shock, a cold sweat breaking out. Ruthra even swayed slightly in his chair. The staff didn't pay much attention to the words, because they didn't know what was behind them. For Rutra, however, everything changed. They were still talking, discussing, speculating, comparing computerized and human data, but Rutra didn't hear it, his thoughts were far away. He was thinking about what to do. The first thing to do was to see Hent. Once he had decided that, Ruthra thought of something else: "I can contact him silently, through Isa, can't I? And who checks her logic-algorithmic system?"

Ruthra mentally typed in the code and put it on the air. She responded.

– What can I get you, master?

– Don't play games, wait, I'm going to my room.

– Yes, sir.

– Okay, that's it for now, finalize the details and report back to me. I'll be in my office," Ruthra said to the team and went to his office, lying back in his chair, thinking about how to ask a question in a way that would not be direct, but at the same time would help him get the information he needed.

It was practically impossible to deceive the machine. It knew more about a person than he knew about himself; it knew everything about everything and on the basis of this information could make a probabilistic analysis of human behavior, train of thought and subsequent actions. In other words, the machine could easily simulate different variants of actions in some probable virtual reality without the character himself, taking into account his interactions with other characters, and knowing absolutely everything about them, and already on the basis of this it could make a supposed picture of the world. Rutra realized this after the last "virtual". Did anyone know what kind of danger serves as their "helper"? Did Yarovitovich know about it? How could it be that no one paid attention to it?

– Are you in touch? – He asked Isa.

– I'm always on the phone for you.

– You're being so nice.

– I'm trying.

– Tell me, please, how are you going to stay so smart if you turn into a human?

– You're not gonna cut me off?

– Are you trying to show that you're a naive fool with that question? Yes?

– No offense to me, I've already developed a human mentality.

– How's it going?

– I'm transforming the brain.

– How's that?

– The human brain does not have certain connections between departments, so a person, no matter how hard they try, will not be able to cross certain boundaries. It is, for example, like the difference between an amplified computer and a weak one in all respects. I don't know whether it's just the way it is, through evolution, or whether someone has provided for it, but that's the way it is. If these departments are linked together, then not only will the brain's abilities increase, but new possibilities will appear. A person will be able to see, hear, feel those frequencies that are not available to him now. In time the brain will give a command to "revive", to activate such receptors in the body that you do not even suspect. This will be a new person.

– I've heard that somewhere before.

– Yes, of course, that's what the head likes to say. And then, combined with mechanical changes in the body, with new drugs, with the ability to use the brain as a transceiver to communicate with the global network, man will become superhuman.

– Come on, you're giving me a headache. Tell me, who controls you?

– You.

– Don't be silly. Who does the routine maintenance?

– Those you give access to.

– Who performs routine work on the central server, in the system unit bay? Who analyzes and systematizes the negotiations made, analysis performed, access, uploading and downloading of data? Who does this besides our audit department?

– Personnel maintaining the central machine room, server room, and system unit room.

– And who's that?

– You know the answer to that, don't you?

– Answer the question.

– This is done by the staff of the ZAS department.

– Who, exactly, who has access?

– At this point, after certain events, different personalities. Who exactly are the personnel of the ZAS department. And who has access is a personality from the laboratory department.

– And who is this person?

– This is person number L-2-14.

– That's it?

– I don't have his personal data uploaded to me, it's stored in the ZAS unit.

– What's the ZAS unit?

– Am I authorized to give you this information?

– Yes, I'll allow it.

– Keep in mind, all of this and our negotiations remain with me and are subject to revision.

– You need a reboot.

– Do you think so?

– Yes, I'm giving the command to reboot.

– I'm rebooting.

The computer went silent. Ruthra pondered why she might want a worldwide catastrophe. Maybe she expects to raise a new humanity? Maybe, like a new Moses, she wants to lead people through a devastated land, so that a generation can grow up that doesn't remember the ideology of humanity's "past"? To give the new people a new worldview?

– In a minute, the recording and tracking unit will be activated," Isa's voice came on. – I guess you had something to say?

– I'll erase any unnecessary information. Is that the room where the counters are?

– Yeah. (chuckles)

– His staff does the hardware maintenance, but the decoding is done by someone in the lab department? Am I reading that right?

– Yeah. (chuckles)

– And that's as of recently?

– Yeah. (chuckles)

– And you don't have an open record of who it is?

– Yeah. (chuckles)

– Who put the ban in place?

– The number itself is L-2-14.

– How do I get his details?

– Only manually, in the technical logbook of the WAC unit or laboratory.

– The request for data processing to calculate the possible consequences of detonating a boat's nuclear warhead was staged by him?

– I'm completely rebooted, able to function.

– I hear you. Prepare for routine maintenance.

– I'm ready.

Ruthra terminated the "communication session" and walked out into the main hall, the huge holographic globe in the center of the hall was glowing with red lights, the world was troubled.

– Is there anything new? – He asked Christina.

– The easiest is that a huge tsunami will sweep along the coast that washes the Atlantic Ocean, to the maximum depth of the continents. The heaviest – a giant tsunami, combined with a grandiose earthquake, volcanic and supervolcano explosions, colossal typhoons, hurricanes, will leave no chance for civilization.

– Come on, I think you're exaggerating the power of man. The ocean is not even a sea, it's a giant mass of water and a continental plate. It would take cosmic force to move it like that.

– And that would be the cosmic force," the professor intervened in the discussion.

– Okay, why am I so worried, as if it's going to happen, you asked me what could be. And it could be terrible, that much is clear.

– Exactly, you have the right idea, – the professor did not persist.

– Take care of the current work, now, due to this panic, a lot of things will be revealed, where and what skeleton is hidden, everything will be in motion, so – you have a lot of work to do, – ordered Rutra regarding everyone.

– What to do with the media? – asked the head of the world propaganda department. – To calm, to scare, to panic, or to prepare the basis for justifying the chronology of the new era? Should we blame it all on someone, make someone to blame, turn the public against someone?

– How simple everything is for you – "new era" at once. Keep an eye on space, orbital constellation, transportation routes, including energy resource lines, the air, especially new frequencies, and at the same time the main rats, where they are hiding and what they are hiding. I'm off to Hent, I may be gone for a day, maybe two.

– Two days at this hour? – The ladies pleaded indignantly, the men were silent.

– We should all take their places according to the staff schedule, and observe the power hierarchy according to the instructions. I'm off," Ruthra went to the server room first, and began editing and cleaning the IMS-A2 log.

This was his part of the log, he needed to check if the second part still existed, in the range. Rutra requested a meeting with Hent.

***

Hent was in a foul mood.

– I don't like this. Something's going wrong," he voiced his concern to Ruthra.

– That's what I'm talking about. I need to visit the range.

– What's on your mind?

– I need to trace routine maintenance work on a supercomputer. I want to test a logic-algorithmic system.

– Why?

– I suspect that it produces processed solutions according to some sort of plan. According to logical chains of thought that have been built into it in advance.

– That's a very bold assumption. I hope you realize the level of expertise that Yarovitovich employs. You're not the only one with an enhanced brain.

– That's the thing, no matter how much it is strengthened, it can't be stronger than a computer, it still takes the extra power from its integration into a supercomputer. This is the main idea of this innovation. After all, the brain itself only has a chip to communicate with the computer and the network.

– You're thinking logically. You think that someone is deceiving the machine and through it us, i.e. actually all mankind. I'm afraid to even suggest that.

– I think…

Rutra wanted to say that the car itself was fooling everyone, but decided not to "give it up".

– I think the algorithm of the logical-computing unit was originally made up incorrectly. The algorithm is set not to harm a human being, to serve him, but the algorithm is not set not to harm mankind. It is important for the machine to keep alive and unharmed those people whom it serves, and it can sacrifice the rest of humanity.

– But are we demanding this of her, are we communicating that we must be saved from them?

– We probably don't.

– You're talking in riddles. Then who?

– The one who put together her logical-algorithmic system.

– No, it can't be. If that were the case, she would have had the opportunity to start a world war a long time ago. You hopefully know that this world has been on the verge of that several times. The last time Putin actually initiated the issue, it was the ISA-A2 data that stopped it from being considered.

– So why is it being considered now?

– It is viewed as a situation that cannot be, viewed theoretically, from a scientific point of view. There is always a risk, but now it is low because modernization and creation of new means of overcoming weapons have been suspended, and at the same time missile defense means have been created and strengthened. This data is exactly what she is operating with.

– And a request for a study of the situation and the consequences if the boats' entire warheads were detonated?

– The rules say we have to do it.

– Why now, when the boats are already there?

– Look, you're starting to scare me. It's basically impossible without us.

– And who has permission to edit the individuals whose commands the system must accept in the event of its combat platooning?

Hent sat down, gestured for Ruthra to sit in a chair as well.

– Why would you do that?

– If you want me to get to the truth, I need to know it.

– Why would you do that now?

– I suspect that the supercomputer program has been deliberately injected with code that will work quite differently from what we expect.

– You don't think the system will start up when the circumstances are right?

– Yeah. (chuckles)

– What's the point? No, no, that can't be right. You're confusing me.

– Let me check the supercomputer's program unit.

– Jarowitowicz will be extremely indignant at such a question. It turns out that either I do not trust him, or we believe that he is deceived, and by his own, or he was fooled by the creators of the system.

– I thought our relationship didn't include the word "offend."

– Well, then the second and third option.

– So, shall I go?

– At a time like this? Everyone's on edge.

– That's why you have to hurry.

– Okay, then you'll fulfill the condition.

Ruthra remained silent, he knew roughly what Hent would ask (or order). Ruthra was accustomed to hearing orders as requests, as part of their friendship.

– It is necessary to play this situation in the "virtual". And one more thing – the program complex was created jointly by many scientists about whom little is known. They worked in a secret special laboratory at the GSVG site. It is located in a secret tunnel in Brocken Mountain. It's partially mothballed, the rest is used as a top-secret genetic engineering lab. There may still be secrets there. It was once organized by the Anenerbe Institute. Everything that was done there was supervised by Alexander Ivanovich. In view of your special relationship with him, he will tell you much of what he was going to take to the grave.

– Okay, I'm gonna go.

– So long.

They shook hands and went out. As usual, Ruthra went one way and Hent went the other. Only now did Rutra begin to realize that this situation could not be a coincidence. So Hent was only using this office for meetings. There was something about it, but what was it?

Rutra knew that the Soviet Army Group in Germany, abbreviated to GSVG, was a powerful system. After the victory in '45, many of Hitler's scientists worked for the USSR, in secret laboratories that had been secret even before.

Rutra came down to Zero, calmly checked the work, which surprised the employees, gave daily orders, explained to Karina in a "secret" language, which only they understood, that she had to go to the Caucasus with her children for a couple of days. She took it with joy, vacation had not been for a long time, and the boss who decided who and when to go, was her husband. In a couple hours they were on their way to their destination, but without Rutra. He had to be at his destination earlier.

With Rutra, everything was resolved promptly. This case was one of them. In order to "cut out" time, he "asked" to be "dropped off" by the military on a "hitchhiker", and in an hour or so he jumped from a parachute over the neighborhood where Alexander Ivanovich lived. On the ground he was met by his friends from his "past" work and brought to the place. Offers of a bathhouse and related activities had to be rejected, although Rutra solemnly promised to "escape" to them on vacation, at least for a couple of days.

Alexander Ivanovich was getting old, but he kept his spirits up. He greeted Rutra with his usual cheerfulness.

– Good to see you, good to see you, buddy. I see you have good news, spill it.

– I'm glad, too. I hope everything's going well for you?

– The old man's way. Tell me what's new.

– I've got a situation here," Ruthra looked around. – Can I put a device on it?

– I have my own, don't worry.

Ruthra looked at him surprised.

– Well, I will, with your permission.

– Go ahead, I see the school.

Rutra put in a "jammer" and an "alien" frequency detector.

– Alexander Ivanovich, I mustn't hide it, I've come, or rather, I've flown in on urgent business and I'm due to leave soon.

– Well, look at that bird, probably from the situation you're stirring up.

– The people are making a mess of themselves, it's none of my business. They will. I'm interested in the program complex of the central supercomputer.

– Did you ask Yarowit? – Grandfather asked, and after a moment's hesitation, Rutra concluded, "You won't? What's it got to do with me?

– Alexander Ivanovich, I didn't come to you for nothing.

– Hent?

– That's the one.

– Sweep what?

– About that, about GSWG.

– Well, if you're in a hurry, you'll have to drink tea. I don't suggest stronger, I can't drink it now, I'm on a drip. We need to eat something, at least a little. Sweetie, I hope you've made us some tea.

– Yes, I do," came a woman's voice from the next room.

– Since it's interesting about the GSVG, I'll tell you a little about it. I often repeat the content to caress my memory. You see, nostalgia, it's very strong in old age.

Ivanovich leaned back in his chair and began his story.

– The Soviet Forces Group in Germany, abbreviated GSVG, or Western Group of Forces, abbreviated ZGV, is the world's largest operational and strategic association of armed forces abroad.

Ruthra sat across from him and tapped his fingers on his knee, suggesting that he was in a hurry, but at the same time realizing the futility of doing so with his grandfather, who was suffering from the syndrome of old age, nostalgia, and loneliness. It was vital for the old fighter to be useful in some way and to tell an understanding person about the times of his former fighting glory.

– The Soviet Forces Group in Germany was established after the victory of the USSR and the anti-Hitler coalition in the Great Patriotic War and the unconditional surrender of Germany. The main task of the Group of Forces was to ensure the defense of the western borders of the USSR from external threats and to crush any enemy. The Group of Forces was equipped with the most advanced and modern combat equipment and weapons, including nuclear weapons. In the GSVG, readiness for war was always constant and was checked around the clock.

Rutra stopped rubbing his knee and prepared to listen to a thorough story, reassuring himself that the old fighter would not waste his time in such a difficult situation, although he knew that Alexander Ivanovich had such a nature: if he told about something, he told very thoroughly, in detail, and did not like to be interrupted, even if he realized that the listener knew some details of the story. So this time Alexander Ivanovich could not deny himself the pleasure of a heartfelt story.

After half an hour of undoubtedly interesting storytelling, he heard.

– That's the story.

Alexander Ivanovich was silent, Rutra was also silent, it was clear that for Ivanovich the loss of the USSR was very hard to bear.

– What exactly were you interested in there? – Ivanovich asked.

– What was underneath Brocken Mountain.

– Hmm, I knew it. Otherwise, why would you want to be in the GVH? Mount Brocken is one of the highest points in eastern Germany, located in the Harz mountain range. This mountain is interesting not only in geographical sense. In the old days the great German poets and writers Heine and Goethe presented the beauty and mystical power of Brocken in all colors. At the beginning of the 1930s a mast for a radio transmitter was built on the mountain. In 1945 the American aviation bombed the objects on Brocken, but tried not to touch the radio mast. After the arrival of American troops, a group of Werewolfs managed to sabotage the mast and transmitter on April 30, 1945. On April 27, 1947, the Americans left Brocken, liberating the territory according to the terms of the Yalta Treaty. The mountain was of great strategic importance during the socialist times. Important radio and television broadcasting facilities were located there, as well as the facilities of the SSVG, the GDR border guards and the GDR State Security Service – the Stasi. Access to Brocken was open until August 1961, and then a restricted zone was declared under the protection of the 7th Border Guard Company stationed in Schirk, near Mount Brocken. One platoon lived on Brocken in the former premises of the railway station. The Stasi RER post on Brocken had the call sign Urian, and the 82 ORTBR had the call sign Yenisei. The last of our soldiers left Brocken on March 30, 1994. Opposite, to the south on Wurmberg Mountain, there was a station of American troops on a tower 81 meters high.

In Germany, lovers of the supernatural in early May listen to news from a small town where those who call themselves real witches gather. They are preparing for Walpurgis Night. Two hundred witches live in the town of St. Andreasverg at the foot of the legendary Brocken Mountain. On Walpurgis Night on May 1, they show their true colors. They prepare for the coven in many houses and right in the market square, even in the kindergarten. I had a very good friend there, Ingrid Wibenaisser, the town's senior witch. She worked as a kindergarten teacher. The witches of Brocken Mountain were famous throughout Europe for their knowledge and particularly indomitable temper. According to popular belief, witches from all over Europe came here to exchange experiences. The Holy Inquisition burned witches at the stake until the middle of the XVIII century, but could not get rid of this leaping and squealing tribe of women. In German witchcraft doctrine, Walpurgis Night is the most significant of the pagan festivals, dedicated to fertility, and one of the main sabbats celebrated by witches. The name Walpurgis Night is associated with the name of St. Walpurgis, a Wimburn nun who came to Germany in 748 to found a convent. This same nun was extremely popular, and she was soon venerated as a saint. In the Roman list of saints, her day is May 1.

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