In it, he described what he predicted would be a nuclear stalemate between two or three superpowers,Įach of which possessed weapons that could wipe out millions of people in a few seconds. Montreal, the United States and the United Kingdom who had been providing Moscow with classified information.Įnglish writer George Orwell first used the term Cold War in a 19 October 1945 essay entitled “You and the Atomic Bomb” in a British magazine. According to the documents, the Soviet embassy was home to several spies. Gouzenko left the embassy with documents that proved his country had been spying on its wartime allies: Canada, Britain and the United States. Just weeks after the end of the Second World War, He was a Soviet cipher clerk stationed at the Soviet Union’s embassy in Ottawa. In February 1946, the Canadian government revealed that it had given political asylum to Igor Gouzenko. “iron curtain” had fallen across the European continent. This situation led former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to state on 5 March 1946 that an
This was done without due democratic process. In particular, the Soviets placed and kept localĬommunist parties in power as puppet governments in once-independent countries across Eastern Europe.
American and British diplomatic relations with Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union severely cooled after the war, over several issues. They were deeply suspicious of the other side’s world plans. The Cold War was rooted in the collapse of the American-British-Soviet alliance that defeated Germany and Japan in the Second World War.
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