When they got back to the jeep, Pug said, “How far are we from Moscow here?” “Oh, quite far enough.” The commissar whirred the noisy engine. “I hope you saw what you wanted to see.” “I saw a lot,” Victor Henry said. The commissar turned his Lenin-like face at the American, appraising him with suspicious eyes. “It is not easy to understand the front just by looking at it.” “I understand that you need a second front.” The commissar uttered a brutal grunt. “Then you understand the main thing. But even without the second front, if we must, Captain Genry, we ourselves will smash this plague of
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