It was probably best that Anatoly hadn't, since in the world Trip and the Enterprise prevented, the Soviet Union hadn't existed because another time agent had assassinated Lenin before it could be created. And that's how Hitler had gotten into the United States, because there had been no Eastern Front.

"Yeah...somethin' like that. Though true be told...the break is kinda nice." Setting aside his guilt of his selfishness...it really, really was. "An' after the last year, I doubt there is anything this island can throw at me that I can't handle."