Petro Kondratovych Kravets arrives at a downed American U-2 spy plane on May Day 1960. An experienced optics technician, his work defends the Motherland. Readers follow this Soviet Everyman, his family, and others through the Cold War with its international space race, Cuban missile crisis, Afghan War, and more up to--and past--the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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