CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Igor Gouzenko, Lester B. Pearson, Camp X
4 Oct 2016
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Canada, the cold warm and the fracturing of national identity. Soviet esponage and the start of the cold war. Hoping to claim refugee status in canada with these documents as leverage. Rcmp take him to a secret location in ottawa camp x. February 1946 someone releases the document to the public. Gouzenko is incognito because he believes the russians are after him to kill him. Ideological war communists, russian block, european countires and the capitalist west. Cold don"t actually engage in direct fighting. Does not mean that there was not any violence. Atomic weapons- what makes the cold war so terrifying. Technically canada was on the americans side. Cold war case studies: the suez crisis (1956) Was and is a very crucial passage for oil and other products into europe and beyond. Whenever there is a war, sides try to get control of this canal.
