"Around them was a country whose citizens were poorly fed and poorly housed, whose only abundant commodities were the painted signs and slogans praising Soviet Progress and Solidarity." Chapter 2, page 29

"There will come a day of reckoning, Pasha told himself, a day of reckoning for all the crimes committed in the name of Socialist Progress. He wondered if he'd live to see it and decided he probably wouldn't." Chapter 10, Page 98

"His job was merely to keep out of the way. It made him a little ashamed. The fear he could now taste along with the peppermint made him more ashamed." Lieutenant Mike Edwards, Iceland, Chapter 18, Page 179

"Morris sometimes wondered if captains should be issued coins with YES and NO stamped on either side, perhaps called a 'digital decision generator' in keeping with the Navy's love for electronic-sounding titles." Chapter 18, Page 191

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