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[Alexandr Korol]

all happen, and whether I even have the choice to refuse. There were many such dialogues and conversations with Big Alexander, and at that time I already made a decision and said that I don’t want to be any messiah, White Tsar, king, or president. And Big Alexander really liked that. Or rather, whoever is behind him — perhaps even the world government — because I said I want to be a writer. That’s all. And I don’t need anything else. The main thing is that nobody bothers me. Let people live how they want, do what they want. Nature itself, Mother Nature, as they say, will hint to people if they’ve gone astray. Why should I interfere in any of it? That’s it. And the people in power — if God doesn’t like their ideology, then God will hint to them what can and cannot be done. I don’t even need to interfere. Why? There is the system, systems above systems — it’s all controlled and functioning. If the system wants to talk to someone, it will. Seriously, the system, God, can now enter the body of some assistant to the president of America and start speaking to him — “Hello” — and say a couple of key phrases that will scare him and make him realize that it’s God speaking to him. And God will tell him everything directly. So I’m simply a writer of our time. I am, essentially, the protagonist of the book, the one who experiences these adventures, and I want to describe them in the books for the people. I’m the main character. And the system, which creates these adventures for me so that I can write about them, uses me like an actor — I mean, I’m writing the books — as an actor who shares his own personal examples, concerns, and problems. But all of this is only to illustrate something for the reader through example. Figuratively speaking, imagine some future president of some country is now reading the second volume of “Alternative History,” and he’s reading the part where I, the protagonist, reflect on what kind of future I want, what options exist. But in reality, it’s like a mirror showing him — that reader, the future president — the system is showing him through me, through the book: look, here’s one option, here’s another, another, look carefully. And right there it’s revealed what will happen to you, where you’ll be destroyed, where you won’t be, and how you need to behave. It’s just a message. The book, the novel “Alternative History,” is like an Indiana Jones adventure — it’s the diary of a “time traveler,” in quotation marks. For whoever needs it, the system will highlight the right line, the right page in the novel “Alternative History,” so the person will know what to pay attention to.