Igor Gouzenko (1919–1982)
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- Geburtstag
- 1919-01-13
- Todestag
- 1982-06-28
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USSR
- Wohnorte
- Rogachev, Soviet Union (Belarus, birth)
Mississauga, Canada (death) - Berufe
- cipher clerk (Soviet Embassy to Canada)
- Kurzbiographie
- Igor Gouzenko defected to the West on September 5, 1945 with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities.
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The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada. (fonte: imdb)
Wonderful book.
This is a first hand account of the early Soviet Union through WWII by a man who lived it. Igor Gouzenko was part of the Communist spy team working against Canada and the USA, during the last years of WWII. As a cipher clerk for the Soviet intelligence services he was one of the privileged comrades who actually had enough to eat most of his adulthood. His mother and sister, like most Russians, were suffering from malnutrition most of their lives.
After arriving in Canada he realized that the Western Democracies were paradise compared to the "Communist Workers Paradise" of his birth.
This book was published in 1948 only 3 years after his defection. At the time of it's release he and his wife were living under false identities with the protection of the Canadian government just to stay alive.
It's an eye opening read for any student of Soviet history or the Cold War.… (mehr)
This is a first hand account of the early Soviet Union through WWII by a man who lived it. Igor Gouzenko was part of the Communist spy team working against Canada and the USA, during the last years of WWII. As a cipher clerk for the Soviet intelligence services he was one of the privileged comrades who actually had enough to eat most of his adulthood. His mother and sister, like most Russians, were suffering from malnutrition most of their lives.
After arriving in Canada he realized that the Western Democracies were paradise compared to the "Communist Workers Paradise" of his birth.
This book was published in 1948 only 3 years after his defection. At the time of it's release he and his wife were living under false identities with the protection of the Canadian government just to stay alive.
It's an eye opening read for any student of Soviet history or the Cold War.… (mehr)
The author, a defector from the Soviet Union's intelligence service who fingered a number of spies and lived under an assumed name in Canada for the rest of his life, wrote this novel to "pay back" his former masters. The review that appeared in Time in 1954 is available on-line at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,857527,00.html?promoid=googlep.
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