The Man From Moscow

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For some days past all the military traffic had been going the one way — north, up the Kola Peninsula. Troops and military stores on the move were, however, nothing very new and no one thought much about it. On the whole the civilian population was, as ever, too preoccupied with its terrible climate to think much about anything else; this state of mind was almost endemic to the inhabitants of the grim, bleak towns and ports of the Peninsula. Certainly they connected the military movements, in a vague sort of way, with what had been going on in and around the Barents Sea and in particular on the islands of Novaya Zemlya; and to that extent they were interested, even excited, and they felt inside themselves that the Soviets were after the big prizes again. But there was nothing whatever to indicate that the wind of change, deserting Africa for the moment, was about to blow pretty strongly behind the scenes in Moscow.

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