2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/47795A brief ideological and historical review of problems of high energy diffractive scattering is given.3 pages, Latex file. Talk given at the XXth International Workshop on the Fundamental Problems of High Energy Physics and Field Theory (June 1997, Protvino, Russia)High Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext