the invisible part of this iceberg? and in the invisible part of this iceberg there is a monstrous bleeding of the country’s defense power. what's happening? on december 8, 1987, the general sect of the cpsu central committee gorbachev, signed an agreement on the elimination of medium- and short-range missiles. this decision led to the fact that the ussr, considered one of the most powerful military powers in the world, found itself practically defenseless. a huge amount of expensive unix was destroyed. medium-range ballistic missiles r-12 and r-14. descendants will make their verdict on the meaning of the event that is taking place before our eyes. but i would venture to say that what we are about to do, sign the first agreement on the elimination of nuclear weapons, has universal significance, both from the point of view of world politics and from the point of view of humanism. gorbachev and the editions of missiles - medium and short-range. they practically do it somehow goes unnoticed, at least so to speak, the public, except for the military, who saw a great danger in this. i want to give one quote from the book by alexander khenshtein, which is called the end of atlantis, where he writes about this,