ate. I keep telling you, we, the revolutionary
underground, have no desire to take over and don't think that we could
even if we wished. When the Soviets are overthrown by our organisation,
the new government will assume power. We disappear as an organization.
Our job is done. Leonid? I don't know, perhaps his fellow employees at
the Mikoyan Camera works will vote him into some office in the plant, if
they think him capable enough."

"Well," Paul sighed, "it's your country. I'll stick to the American
system." He couldn't take his eyes from the way her lips tucked in at
the sides.

Ana said, "How long have you been in love with me, Paul?"

"What?"

She laughed. "Don't be so blank. It would be rather odd, wouldn't it, if
two people were in love, and neither of them realized what had
happened?"

"_Two_ people in love," he said blankly, unbelievingly.

* * * * *

Leonid Shvernik and Paul Koslov were bent over a map of the U.S.S.R. The
former pointed out the approximate location of the radio transmitters.
"We're not going to use them until the last moment," he said. "Not until
the fat is in the fire. Then they will all begin at once. The KGB and
MVD won't have time to knock them out."

Paul said, "Things are moving fast. Faster than I had expected. We're
putting it over, Leonid."

Shvernik said, "Only because the situation is ripe. It's the way
revolutions work."

"How do you mean?" Paul said absently, studying the map.

"Individuals don't put over revolutions. The times do, the conditions
apply. Did you know that six months before the Bolshevik revolution took
place Lenin wrote that he never expected to live to see the Communist
take over in Russia? The thing was that the conditions were there. The
Bolsheviks, as few as they were, were practically thrown into power."

"However," Paul said dryly, "it was mighty helpful to have such men as
Lenin and Trotsky handy."

Shvernik shrugged. "The times make the men. Your own American Revolution
is probably better known to you. Look at the men those times produced.
Jefferson, Paine, Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams. And once again, if
you had told any of those men, a year before the Declaration of
Independence, that a complete revolution was the only solution to the
problems that confronted them, they would probably have thought you
insane."

It was a new line of thought for Paul Koslov. "Then what does cause a
revolution?"

"The