General Alexander Lebed, who went through several armed conflicts, went down in history as the man who stopped two wars — in Transnistria and the First Chechen One. He took third place in the 1996 presidential election. Then he became the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where he tragically died three years later.
How did a combat general become a politician? Who was behind it, who financed it and why? And why did the path that seemed to lead to the presidency end so tragically?