26The Kremlin
Moscow, Russia
11:00 P.M., July 16, 1918
No greater example of the inefficiencies of the centralized government functions of the Bolshevik regime could be found than the railroads. Goretsky had left Petrograd on the 7:00 P.M. train to Moscow. He and many others hadn’t yet recovered from the stunning news of the death of Comrade Mozger. Goretsky remained especially affected, for he believed that he might well have been the last man to see Mozger alive. It was Zinoviev who had discovered his body slumped over his desk. Goretsky was deathly afraid that he would somehow be implicated in the comrade's death. He reasoned that the best way to conduct himself would be to carry out the assignment that Mozger had given to him. It had to be of the greatest importance.
Unfortunately,
