In important moments, István Tóth was always in the right place. He was born in the Soviet Union, in Bátfa, Transcarpathia, in 1951. He got involved in the local civil rights movement at a very young age, for which he was conscripted from the university to serve as a soldier, unarmed service, construction company - interrupting his university studies. After moving to Hungary, he was one of the few who tried to keep Transcarpathian Hungarian culture on the agenda in the mother country. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the magazine Pro Minoritate. Currently, he heads the Hungarian consulate in Beregsász as consul general. The volume of his collected writings includes his experiences of "Soviet life", the peculiarities of the Soviet state, its methods of operation, the Transcarpathian Hungarians in the 20th century. he wrote his studies on the history, literature, and self-organization of the 19th century, his observations on the struggle for independence of the three Baltic countries, and his geopolitical and minority policy writings. The life interview with the author presents the inner world of the Soviet army during the period of Brezhnev's decline, in a boring garrison, near Munkács in the Carpathians, near a Hungarian-inhabited village called Fornos, which the soldiers recruited from the peoples of the Soviet Union called Hungary, Hungary for the sake of simplicity...