HIS311Y1 Lecture Notes - Soviet Democracy, Oligarchy
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Strategic situation turned different from that of 1939. Germany now disappeared and its economy had been wrecked. Instead of germany now we have soviet union. Soviet embassy was to funnel canadian aids to moscow. Canada sent dana wilgress to soviet: he spoke russian and lived in siberia for a while married. Western diplomats in moscow was relatively isolated: western communities would talk to each other. N. robertson thinks this is so important that he has a summary made for the pm mackenzie king: about 2 pages long. Soviet democracy is not same as canadian democracy: on surface it looks like democracy. They have election, constitution, etc: only one party. Soviet occupied bulgaria, romania, poland, czecho slovakia, and other central europe, berlin. These places hwv had higher standard of living than soviets. Mackenzie king and company received what happened in western europe. Fear in w. europe: enemy may be beside you.