{"id":12507,"date":"2011-12-10T12:48:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T16:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12507"},"modified":"2011-12-10T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T16:48:23","slug":"it-was-not-all-in-all-canada%e2%80%99s-finest-hour-perhaps-that%e2%80%99s-why-we-still-don%e2%80%99t-talk-about-it-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/10\/it-was-not-all-in-all-canada%e2%80%99s-finest-hour-perhaps-that%e2%80%99s-why-we-still-don%e2%80%99t-talk-about-it-much\/","title":{"rendered":"“It was not, all in all, Canada\u2019s finest hour. Perhaps that\u2019s why we still don\u2019t talk about it much.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Fulford<\/a> on the event in Ottawa that started the Cold War:<\/p>\n

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For just one moment in history, Canada found itself at the dangerous centre of global politics. That was in 1945, when Igor Gouzenko left the Russian embassy in Ottawa with documents proving the Soviet Union was spying on Canada with the help of Canadian communists.<\/p>\n

Gouzenko\u2019s revelations were the opening shot in the Cold War. A new book, Stalin\u2019s Man in Canada: Fred Rose and Soviet Espionage<\/em> by David Levy, takes a rambling, anecdotal approach to a major figure in the story, the only Canadian member of Parliament ever convicted of conducting espionage for a foreign state.<\/p>\n

Official Ottawa reacted badly to the news that there were spies in its midst. The government arrested the suspects and locked them up for weeks, without access to lawyers or families. They were paraded before a secret royal commission and persuaded to incriminate themselves. Gouzenko was given a new identity to protect him from Soviet assassins but the Mounties leaked nasty stories about him. For decades journalists treated him as a money-grubbing clown rather than the hero that he was.<\/p>\n

Today the case remains largely unexplored and poorly remembered. Among those involved, only Gouzenko described his experience in a book, This Was My Choice<\/em>, a rather thin and hasty account. Twentieth Century Fox produced a forgettable adaptation, The Iron Curtain<\/em>, with Dana Andrews as Gouzenko.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Fulford on the event in Ottawa that started the Cold War: For just one moment in history, Canada found itself at the dangerous centre of global politics. That was in 1945, when Igor Gouzenko left the Russian embassy in Ottawa with documents proving the Soviet Union was spying on Canada with the help of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,7,28],"tags":[108,432,476,522,567,433],"class_list":["post-12507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cancon","category-history","category-media","tag-coldwar","tag-diplomacy","tag-espionage","tag-ottawa","tag-rcmp","tag-sovietunion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3fJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12508,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507\/revisions\/12508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}