Discussion about historical processes in society, consciousness, behavior of people of different generations, about perestroika in the USSR (synchronously). Participants in the discussion: writers V. Oreshkin, Yu. Polyakov, sociologists P. Kudyukin and A. Fadin, publisher of the Paragraph magazine A. Morozov, historian Roy Medvedev. Members of the Soviet government L. I. Brezhnev, M. A. Suslov, A. A. Gromyko on the podium. Presentation of the award to Leonid Brezhnev. Sale of Leonid Brezhnev's masks. Moscow city. Police disperse, detain people on Mayakovsky Square, demanding an end to atomic tests in the city of Semipalatinsk. Muscovites rally in support of Boris N. Yeltsin.