{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Special episode: Gouzenko—the man who exposed the Cold War","description":"In this special episode of the podcast on the Eastern Front of World War Two, we go beyond Beyond Barbarossa and beyond the end of the Second World War.\n\n80 years ago to the day of this publication a handsome young man approached Canadian media and officials with proof that the Soviet Union was spying on its allies. The Cold War was on.\n\n\n\nFormer Soviet cypher clerk Igor Gouzenko, hooded to protect his identity, being interviewed by Associated Press reporter Saul Pett in Montreal in 1954.\n\n\n\nThe Gouzenkos’ apartment building on Somerset Street in central Ottawa. There is no plaque commemorating Igor Gouzenko. (Photo by Scott Bury, 2025.)\n\n\n\nIgor Gouzenko in Canada, 1946.\n\n\n\nSources\n\nWinston Churchill, “The Sinews of Peace,” speech given at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, U.S.A., 5 March 1946.\nhttps://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/winstonchurchillsinewsofpeace.htm\n\nJ.L. Granatstein and David Stafford, Spy Wars: Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1990.\n\nJohn Sawatsky, Gouzenko: The Untold Story. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1984\n\nWikipedia, Gouzenko Affair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouzenko_Affair\n\nWondery Podcasts, “The Spy Who, Season 7: The Spy Who Started the Cold War” https://wondery.com/shows/the-spy-who/season/7/\n\n Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762327/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}