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Nice episode. I lived in the same neighbourhood as the Guzenkos in the 1960s and 70s and was shocked to learn their real identity after their dad passed away.
He said the first inkling he had that the communist system might not be as advertized was when he found out through collegues at the embassy that Canadian wartime rationing was being partly removed at the end of the war. He told his wife the good news and she was surprized there was rationing before because even with it there were far more food choices than at home. I remember him on tv in about '70, wearing that hood. What a way to live out the rest of his life.
The Soviets were never America's friend. They used America for weapons and supplies. America used them to basically break the Nazi's with Soviet blood. The Cold War was essentially active during WW2 but became a defining moment when the Soviet Union exploded their first Atom bomb. Great Video!
John Doe :: I don't think you are exactly correct in your narrative about events ; particularly, the _order_ of those events. It was the United States that was never really trustworthy in regard to USSR / United States' Relations. 📌 The United States w / a Major, International Coalition of Countries, invaded the USSR in 1918, to dispatch The Bolshevic Revolution. They joined forces w / The White Russians. 📌 Britain / France / Italy / ●Japan / Canada / India & a number of other countries were part of that Coalition. They each agreed to supply a certain number of troops for the Invasion. ● During the Formation-of-Troops, the Japanese Generals could "see" that the United States had reneged on the number they had agreed to send. Just one example of the fact that the Allies of the United States cannot trust _the United States._ Stalin made a number of overtures to Britain & the United States, to form a decisive front against Germany during WW2. They both refused to assist the USSR ; leaving Stalin no other choice but to Sigh a Non-Aggression Pact w / Germany, if only to buy Stalin some time & breathing-space for the inevitable, Living-Space of Hitler's ambitions in Eastern Europe and beyond. Harry Truman created one of the greatest crimes in World-History w / Hiroshima & Nagasaki, in _1945._ The USSR tested their Atomic Bomb in _1949 ;_ therefore, Reacting to Truman's implied threat w / his attack on H&N, in 1945 ! Stalin may have been a piece-of-work inside of The Soviet Union & Eastern Europe, but he kept his word w / the Allies of Britain & the United States. examples :: he observed his Agreement w / Churchill concerning the 90% / 10% Split of Greece. he promised Truman to send Soviet Forces to the Eastern Borders of the USSR to assist in the Invasion of Japan -- Two Weeks ahead of schedule ! The bombing of those two Japanese Cities, made Stalin's Forces, a waste of time AND definitely eliminated the necessity of sharing any Spoils-of-War w / those Bolshevics. I think it's plain to see that The Cold-War started in 1918 against the Bolshevics & from _that_ time on :: it was the USSR that couldn't trust the United States.
Good video I'm glad you guys finally did the Gouzenko affair, those bloody Soviets were everywhere, you guys should do the Munsinger affair sometime too. It's kinda like the Canadian version of the Profumo affair.
It was never "just the Rosenbergs" that were spying for foreign powers on the U S nuclear programs. Unfortunately they were the only ones executed for their roles. It was something that always... brothered my mom, the Rosenbergs children being left parentless...
I'm from Ottawa and walked past his apartment building almost daily for many years not knowing what historical significance it had. In 2004 they installed plaques in Dundonald Park across the street in commemoration.
Thanks for this video. Lots of think the Cold War began right after WW2 but tbh the tensions between the West and Soviet Union began as early as arguably in 1917. And both sides had love hate relationship from the 1920s to the 1940s but tensions were really building near the end of WW2.
The Red Scare of 1919-20 at least to me showed that the Cold War would happen as soon as The Third Reich fell. I had no idea about this episode in Cold War. Good to know.
I can't speak for the Canadians, but in the USA our counterintelligence services were well aware of the Soviet espionage efforts, especially those involving the Manhattan Project, but they were hamstrung in their efforts to counter them by political leaders who turned a blind eye in order maintain good relations with the USSR. After the war this attitude quickly changed.
I'd argue that the "Cold War" started as early as 1917, even as the Bolsheviks seized power... The German Empire, for its part knew the sort of revolutionary danger that Lenin posed and was quite hesitant to send Lenin to Russia. But with America entering the war and the British blockade starving the German people, they didn't have much choice given that victory in WW1 was still a German goal in 1917. And in the short term, that required Lenin's Bolsheviks getting Russia out of the war... and this did seem to take root by the end of 1917. However, even as Lenin sent Trotsky to negotiate at Brest-Litovsk with the Germans, American, British, French, Japanese, and Czech forces all intervened in the Russian Civil War on the side of the White Army... even before World War I ended in Europe in 1918. This would include the Royal Navy bombarding Soviet positions in the Baltic and Wild Bill Donovan had his first real adventures in spying and anti-Communist activity before the Russian Civil War ended. And as news of the murders committed by the Bolsheviks, particularly of Nicholas II and his family, began to reach outside the Soviet Union, many countries began to seriously distrust the ideology and actions of the Soviet regime, even after the Russian Civil War ended. Lenin's policies of looking for ways to ignite revolution outside the Soviet Union in the 20s only further reflected the concern and unease that many Western Powers had regarding the Soviet Union. And in fact the French even floated the idea of bombing Grozny from Syria in support of the Fins in the Winter War of 1939/1941, which shows that even with the shadows of Nazism growing through the 30s... that the future Western Allies were not necessarily trusting of the Soviet Union. And Stalin really didn't trust them either. Sure there were some agreements here and there that came about in response to German expansion in the 30s, but when the West repeatedly appeased Hitler, Stalin took their rhetoric as empty and expected they were trying to bleed the Soviets off against the Nazis, and thus when it came to the crisis over Poland, Stalin only accepted offers from those that would give him territory... which happened to be the Germans. And from there, he expected Germany to get bogged down in another long war, like it had in WWI, and he could then pick up the pieces as the British and French would surely be exhausted by the time they beat Germany again. In this, Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was merely a pause in what had been a period of more than 20 years of mistrust between the Soviets and the West. And were it not for Hitler's need for living space to loot Soviet material resources, that tension would have continued. And pretty much did when WW2 ended in 1945. For in many cases, the Soviets put in place governments the west couldn't or wouldn't trust and the west began looking for ways to recover... particularly the French who had really relied on French Communists for the Resistance during WW2.
You can also argue that the Cold War never entirely ended, especially as China-U.S and U.S.-Russia tensions increase, N.Korea-S.Korea and other tensions still exist, and there are still some ongoing communist insurgencies and more peaceful right vs left political and propoganda conflicts, with the main cold-war-like dynamic in the modern world maybe being pro-USA (primarily liberal) and anti-USA (often "anti-imperialist") camps. However, I also think it's fair to call the WW2-1989/1991 period as a particular stage of aggression surrounded by less aggression if this type on either side, and that it's fair to call this "The Cold War".
@@Mr.Nichan - To a degree, I agree. Though largely because of the nature of what happened between 1941-1945. America and Britain had been growing so unnerved by German actions in the 30s, and by 1941, Britain had been at war with Germany for 2+ years and largely on the losing end, that while neither could say they truly fond of Stalin's dictatorship, they also recognized they NEEDED the Red Army to take on the Wehrmacht in the bloody battles that took place on the Eastern Front. Which over time created the idea that when WW2, Stalin would look at the cost and how violent the Nazis had been and recognize that trying to "extend the revolution" would be bad for him. And Roosevelt, supposedly, had ideas that he could diplomatically twist Stalin into a point where the Soviet dictator couldn't back out and avoid the Cold War in a different way. But... FDR died before WW2 ended and Truman's approach was more confrontational... and even if FDR hadn't died in 1945, he was too old and too sick to pull his plan off, and Stalin knew this. Which sets of the restarting of major tensions after WWII and killing the hope that the war would bring all sides together. My point though is that the tensions that dominated the Cold War didn't just start in 1945. One could argue that they were born almost as soon as the Soviet Union was proclaimed in 1917.
The Cold War had no need for a Gouzenko affair to start... It was ideological, first and foremost. So it was preordained. Sure it was a counterintelligence coup of unprecedented magnitude.
The beginning of Cold War should be searched in World War Two. For instance, OSS chief William Donovan sent (with or without knowledge of FDR and certainly without Churchill's knowledge) a mission to Yugoslavia headed by colonel Robert H. McDowell. Mission was disguised as rescue mission of downed allied airmen who were hiding among chetniks of Dragoljub Mihailovic. Mihailovic was a disclosed collaborator with Axis and staunch anticommunist, yet he was claiming that he is anti-Axis. Mcdowell's mission was to arrange German surrender to Mihailovic and unification of anticommunist-collaborationist forces (some of them, such as Dimitrije Ljotić's ZBOR were openly fascist and anti-US, anti-British and anti-Soviet) against (pro-)communist partisans and denying USSR chance to enter in Yugoslavia and thus gain access to Mediterranean ports. Mission was unsuccessful: anticommunist/collaborationist forces did unite (but they would do it anyway, without US aid), but Wehrmacht did not surrender to chetniks and chetniks did not obtain German weaponry. In matter of fact, chetniks even more relied upon Axis help (supplies and combat operations). McDowell's mission was canceled due to Churchill's pressure; he feared that Allied mission among would strain relations with partisan leader Tito and Stalin (Western Allies were still fighting in France in summer/early autumn of 1944). It also sealed fate of Mihailovic, as he believed that Western Allies would not allow victory of communism in Yugoslavia and he never fled from the country, thus allowing partisans to destroy his movement, capture him and publicly expose his high treason on trial in 1946.
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@abe Lincoln Fuck off you commie apologist.The Soviet Union tried to reach all the way to Berlin in the early 20's.It was Poland who stopped them. THAT was the beginning. " And even nuked cities and killed civilians" AHAHAHAHAHAH,a shitstain who never heard of the massacres and rapes perpetrated by the Red Army. Hell,in the Manchurian Strategic Offensive, it got so bad even the Chinese commies managed to find their balls and protested the rape of the local women.
Oh boi, those Russians are extremely sofisticated, but also extremely sloppy in everything!! Well done by Igor. Would be nice to watch a video about the US intelligence in the cold war in different nations.
When will they say Cold War 2 started? My guess will be either the 2014 invasion (or whatever you want to call it) of Crimea or the 2008 invasion of Georgia
@@if1259 I think the Russian Federation laughed at the USA for invading Afghanistan and Iraq. The invasion of Crimea was the Russian response to the disaster the USA made of Libya. It ended Dmitry Medevdev's career, too, and if there is to be a Cold War 2 I think Libya will be why. Then again, Putin is very old and his grudges might die when he does. We'll see.
The Cold War began before the end of WW2 by a joint decision of the US and British governments, the iniative began with the OSS and the M16 and other British inteligence agencies. The well documented book M16 provides hard evidence about that fact. Furthermore, and issue of World Politics from the 90's(can't recall the exact issue), after researching the soviet archives, explains that the USSR was never interested in a conflict with the West but that the aggressive Western policy was the cause of a generalized soviet paranoia on fears of a Western militart aggression. Usual Western war mongering, aggression and genocides.
Has there been any conjecture about the Cold War starting BEFORE WW2? I understand that during the USSR's revolution the UK had sent troops to fight for the White Army. After the revolution, the USSR tried to open up trade with the UK and was rebuffed until 1921 when a trade agreement was struck. If one believes the view that the West was fighting against Communism taking over (the way the Cold War is discussed in the US) it would make sense that the White Army support of the UK was part of the Cold War, and when the West fully allied with the UK against the Germans, the Cold War the UK began carried over to the rest of the West. This would mean WW2 interrupted the Cold War, and that Fascism was a greater threat to the Cold War-ing nations, one which I think the end of the Cold War supports as it ended without direct bloodshed (as you noted), but it also would trace the beginning of the Cold War back to the beginning of the USSR and it's 'worker control' versus Capitalist control, which again is what the argument is framed as in my US-centered education.
It has been argued by historians like Dr. Jeremy Black that the Cold War started as early as the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 as a war of ideologies. I think there is a valid argument there but there are also a lot of qualifications and caveats that need to be applied to the argument prior to the SWW. Because of the unequivocal nature of the situation post-1945, I prefer the more traditional definition of the Cold War timeframe.
This video is very good, can you allow me to reprint the video of your channel to the Chinese video website BiliBili? Because the Chinese can't watch videos on UA-cam.
Why do I even bother... A resident spy in the world of espionage is an agent operating within a foreign country for extended periods of time. A base of operations within a foreign country with which a resident spy may liaise is known as a "station" in English and a rezidentura (резиденту́ра, 'residency') in Russian.[1][2] What the U.S. would call a "station chief", the head spy, is known as a rezident (резиде́нт) in Russian.[1]
so does this channel have a cooperation with The Great War channel and World War Two channel? because you seem to be copying their format. also links to the materials your are using for the videos would be awesome. besides that though i appreciate your videos, great content!
Hey uhhh what’s up with the giant 1488 that takes up the whole screen at 8:09? It’s the only number to be that large or to appear in the center of the screen.
The CCCP tended was to use people. Having lots of people, they had little fear of losing people. The west, hated losing people, and placed more and more resources into technology. To be really good at espionage, you need to balance both people and technology. The deciding factor, resources. The CCCP had more people as a resource. The west with a good economy relied on technology.
@@knutdergroe9757 lol The Soviets barely had any people left at the end of the war. Let alone people of good education and intelligence. They tried to compensate that with discipline and severe punishment for mistakes. Thus leading to the defection mentioned in the episode. Ofcourse this is all oversimplification, but a far better one than the one you gave I believe.
Wrong UK flag at 7:22 mate, you've used the Pre-1801 flag of Great Britain, not the current post-1801 flag with the extra cross. Please try and get these things right! It does damage credibility, and I won't be the only one noticing this stuff. Otherwise, a good video and a great channel. :-)
A movie based on memories entitled "As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me" (2001) detailed a German officer Clemens Forell, (enlisted man Cornelius Rost) captured in 1942 and then moved to a POW camp within 100 miles of the Bering Strait. He escaped (1949) and miraculously walked all the way to Iran (1952). In a moving scene in Tashkent (I think) he is saved by a Jewish man who 1. knows he is a former German soldier and what the Nazis did. The reality for both was how equally and in some ways even more evil communism was. The antagonist is this Russian GRU officer whose whole being is in tracking and putting this man back in the Gulag. The man kept these facts to himself once he was able to return to West Germany for many years because of his justifiable fear the reds would seek him out and kidnap him back to the Rodina.
Wow, never heard of this, and I thought I was pretty well-up on Cold War stuff. When I was in school, I did a project covering The Rosenberg Case, where a husband and wife were accused and killed for "selling nuclear secrets"...they probably had nothing to do with it. :-(
The 2 books by Gouzenko are added to my reading list. Thanks. Nice work as always. What I think really happened: ua-cam.com/video/onR7PD3Grc0/v-deo.html
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It started in 1920 when the British and their allies left the Russian empire and allowed Bolsheviks to win the civil war.
"60 Soviet residence [sic]" -- a residence is a dwelling -- you meant "residents".
Nice episode. I lived in the same neighbourhood as the Guzenkos in the 1960s and 70s and was shocked to learn their real identity after their dad passed away.
*doubt*
Hi there, I am the great granddaughter of the Gouzenko’s. We didn’t know or talk to many neighbours. Which family was yours?
@@CarolineChiasson I’m here because of the quick hits lone gunmen podcast amazing show you did
@@CarolineChiasson Hello i’m Guzenkos grandson i don’t remember him having a great granddaughter 🤔
Really? Where? I had an alleged nazi war criminal at my church
Great story telling, music, and animation!
He said the first inkling he had that the communist system might not be as advertized was when he found out through collegues at the embassy that Canadian wartime rationing was being partly removed at the end of the war. He told his wife the good news and she was surprized there was rationing before because even with it there were far more food choices than at home. I remember him on tv in about '70, wearing that hood. What a way to live out the rest of his life.
As a resident of Ottawa, Canada, I found this video very fascinating!
The Soviets were never America's friend. They used America for weapons and supplies. America used them to basically break the Nazi's with Soviet blood.
The Cold War was essentially active during WW2 but became a defining moment when the Soviet Union exploded their first Atom bomb. Great Video!
Cold War was active since dawn of USSR. It was it's policy after defeat under Warsaw. It's only Western left who is not willing to admit it.
Cold War was active since dawn of USSR. It was it's policy after defeat under Warsaw. It's only Western left who is not willing to admit it.
@@novak7970 the marshal plan was offered to the Soviet Union but they rejected it
John Doe ::
I don't think you are exactly correct in your narrative about events ; particularly, the _order_ of those events.
It was the United States that was never really trustworthy in regard to USSR / United States' Relations.
📌 The United States w / a Major, International Coalition of Countries, invaded the USSR in 1918, to dispatch The Bolshevic Revolution. They joined forces w / The White Russians.
📌 Britain / France / Italy / ●Japan / Canada / India & a number of other countries were part of that Coalition.
They each agreed to supply a certain number of troops for the Invasion.
● During the Formation-of-Troops, the Japanese Generals could "see" that the United States had reneged on the number they had agreed to send.
Just one example of the fact that the Allies of the United States cannot trust _the United States._
Stalin made a number of overtures to Britain & the United States, to form a decisive front against Germany during WW2. They both refused to assist the USSR ; leaving Stalin no other choice but to Sigh a Non-Aggression Pact w / Germany, if only to buy Stalin some time & breathing-space for the inevitable, Living-Space of Hitler's ambitions in Eastern Europe and beyond.
Harry Truman created one of the greatest crimes in World-History w / Hiroshima & Nagasaki, in _1945._
The USSR tested their Atomic Bomb in _1949 ;_ therefore, Reacting to Truman's implied threat w / his attack on H&N, in 1945 !
Stalin may have been a piece-of-work inside of The Soviet Union & Eastern Europe, but he kept his word w / the Allies of Britain & the United States.
examples ::
he observed his Agreement w / Churchill concerning the 90% / 10% Split of Greece.
he promised Truman to send Soviet Forces to the Eastern Borders of the USSR to assist in the Invasion of Japan -- Two Weeks ahead of schedule !
The bombing of those two Japanese Cities, made Stalin's Forces, a waste of time AND definitely eliminated the necessity of sharing any Spoils-of-War w / those Bolshevics.
I think it's plain to see that The Cold-War started in 1918 against the Bolshevics & from _that_ time on ::
it was the USSR that couldn't trust the United States.
@@sturm9087 ::
They had good reasons to reject it.
Good video I'm glad you guys finally did the Gouzenko affair, those bloody Soviets were everywhere, you guys should do the Munsinger affair sometime too. It's kinda like the Canadian version of the Profumo affair.
Very interesting to see that it wasn't just the Rosenbergs in the US who aided the Soviets to obtain the how-to's of making nuclear arms.
It was never "just the Rosenbergs" that were spying for foreign powers on the U S nuclear programs. Unfortunately they were the only ones executed for their roles. It was something that always... brothered my mom, the Rosenbergs children being left parentless...
This channel is truly a blessing!
I hope you guys continue doing this!
The flag used to represent Britain in this video is using the pre 1801 design. 7:19
I hate it when people do that
I really don't understand why people keep doing this, it's a difficult mistake to make.
Far more significantly, poutine didn’t exist until 1960!?! ;)
I’m going to assume any Canadian nuclear bomb would bear the name “we’re sorry eh”
Ok you pay for the nuclear program it ain't cheap yo
Fun fact, there is a factory in the town of Trail, B.C. that was a part of the Manhattan Project.
Lol I live in South Florida 😂 I'm surrounded by Canadians right now. Lol
Only if they drop it on a foreign country.
@@chico305SIGMA I live in Canada I'm also surrounded by them :)
I'm from Ottawa and walked past his apartment building almost daily for many years not knowing what historical significance it had. In 2004 they installed plaques in Dundonald Park across the street in commemoration.
Soldier: That Heavy is the spy! Boys, we have a traitor!!
May I make a suggestion ? *RUN*
*I teleported bread!*
I vaguely remember about learning this in highschool, didn't really stick at the time but it sure will now!
Great video. Loved the animations because I'm just a big kid.
Thanks for this video. Lots of think the Cold War began right after WW2 but tbh the tensions between the West and Soviet Union began as early as arguably in 1917. And both sides had love hate relationship from the 1920s to the 1940s but tensions were really building near the end of WW2.
Thank you for this Episode. I would have never known of this without your Help.
Late to the game, but this one was a doozie. Well done and well presented.
The Red Scare of 1919-20 at least to me showed that the Cold War would happen as soon as The Third Reich fell. I had no idea about this episode in Cold War. Good to know.
The second Red Scare began in 194o with the Smith "gag" Act prosecution of the 18 leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party.
I can't speak for the Canadians, but in the USA our counterintelligence services were well aware of the Soviet espionage efforts, especially those involving the Manhattan Project, but they were hamstrung in their efforts to counter them by political leaders who turned a blind eye in order maintain good relations with the USSR. After the war this attitude quickly changed.
GREAT music in this episode....well done
great animations, guys, this is a huge step forward.
Great as always! I loved the animation for this one!!
Keep up the great work!
Most creative of your episodes. It was good.
The new style is fantastic!
Great episode. I love the cold war content you have been putting. Keep it up!
I'd argue that the "Cold War" started as early as 1917, even as the Bolsheviks seized power...
The German Empire, for its part knew the sort of revolutionary danger that Lenin posed and was quite hesitant to send Lenin to Russia. But with America entering the war and the British blockade starving the German people, they didn't have much choice given that victory in WW1 was still a German goal in 1917. And in the short term, that required Lenin's Bolsheviks getting Russia out of the war... and this did seem to take root by the end of 1917. However, even as Lenin sent Trotsky to negotiate at Brest-Litovsk with the Germans, American, British, French, Japanese, and Czech forces all intervened in the Russian Civil War on the side of the White Army... even before World War I ended in Europe in 1918. This would include the Royal Navy bombarding Soviet positions in the Baltic and Wild Bill Donovan had his first real adventures in spying and anti-Communist activity before the Russian Civil War ended.
And as news of the murders committed by the Bolsheviks, particularly of Nicholas II and his family, began to reach outside the Soviet Union, many countries began to seriously distrust the ideology and actions of the Soviet regime, even after the Russian Civil War ended. Lenin's policies of looking for ways to ignite revolution outside the Soviet Union in the 20s only further reflected the concern and unease that many Western Powers had regarding the Soviet Union. And in fact the French even floated the idea of bombing Grozny from Syria in support of the Fins in the Winter War of 1939/1941, which shows that even with the shadows of Nazism growing through the 30s... that the future Western Allies were not necessarily trusting of the Soviet Union.
And Stalin really didn't trust them either. Sure there were some agreements here and there that came about in response to German expansion in the 30s, but when the West repeatedly appeased Hitler, Stalin took their rhetoric as empty and expected they were trying to bleed the Soviets off against the Nazis, and thus when it came to the crisis over Poland, Stalin only accepted offers from those that would give him territory... which happened to be the Germans. And from there, he expected Germany to get bogged down in another long war, like it had in WWI, and he could then pick up the pieces as the British and French would surely be exhausted by the time they beat Germany again.
In this, Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was merely a pause in what had been a period of more than 20 years of mistrust between the Soviets and the West. And were it not for Hitler's need for living space to loot Soviet material resources, that tension would have continued. And pretty much did when WW2 ended in 1945. For in many cases, the Soviets put in place governments the west couldn't or wouldn't trust and the west began looking for ways to recover... particularly the French who had really relied on French Communists for the Resistance during WW2.
Good argument !
You can also argue that the Cold War never entirely ended, especially as China-U.S and U.S.-Russia tensions increase, N.Korea-S.Korea and other tensions still exist, and there are still some ongoing communist insurgencies and more peaceful right vs left political and propoganda conflicts, with the main cold-war-like dynamic in the modern world maybe being pro-USA (primarily liberal) and anti-USA (often "anti-imperialist") camps. However, I also think it's fair to call the WW2-1989/1991 period as a particular stage of aggression surrounded by less aggression if this type on either side, and that it's fair to call this "The Cold War".
@@Mr.Nichan - To a degree, I agree. Though largely because of the nature of what happened between 1941-1945. America and Britain had been growing so unnerved by German actions in the 30s, and by 1941, Britain had been at war with Germany for 2+ years and largely on the losing end, that while neither could say they truly fond of Stalin's dictatorship, they also recognized they NEEDED the Red Army to take on the Wehrmacht in the bloody battles that took place on the Eastern Front.
Which over time created the idea that when WW2, Stalin would look at the cost and how violent the Nazis had been and recognize that trying to "extend the revolution" would be bad for him. And Roosevelt, supposedly, had ideas that he could diplomatically twist Stalin into a point where the Soviet dictator couldn't back out and avoid the Cold War in a different way. But... FDR died before WW2 ended and Truman's approach was more confrontational... and even if FDR hadn't died in 1945, he was too old and too sick to pull his plan off, and Stalin knew this.
Which sets of the restarting of major tensions after WWII and killing the hope that the war would bring all sides together. My point though is that the tensions that dominated the Cold War didn't just start in 1945. One could argue that they were born almost as soon as the Soviet Union was proclaimed in 1917.
The Cold War had no need for a Gouzenko affair to start... It was ideological, first and foremost. So it was preordained. Sure it was a counterintelligence coup of unprecedented magnitude.
It was state based
„Ideological” is everything, nothing is preordained
It was the start in the public “eye” in the West
All alcnflcit and all pwoer involve ideolgy
Love this new way of editing!!!
That feel when Canada was the start of the Cold War **nervous sweating**
Anybody else keeps hearing the theme of Metal Gear Solid 3? Solid work, boys.
You guys are awesome!
What an excellent animation!
If not already commented on please consider doing a program on the Kennedy Khrushchev debates.
Also read " I Chose Freedom".
Great video! 😊
Nice video. Had no idea this ever happened. Oh the stuff we learn everyday. My compliments to those who made this video a reality.
This is an amazing story
8:09 What did they mean by this?
If anyone fancies a good read about this affair I'd recommend "Dark Sun - The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" by Richard Rhodes.
The beginning of Cold War should be searched in World War Two. For instance, OSS chief William Donovan sent (with or without knowledge of FDR and certainly without Churchill's knowledge) a mission to Yugoslavia headed by colonel Robert H. McDowell. Mission was disguised as rescue mission of downed allied airmen who were hiding among chetniks of Dragoljub Mihailovic. Mihailovic was a disclosed collaborator with Axis and staunch anticommunist, yet he was claiming that he is anti-Axis. Mcdowell's mission was to arrange German surrender to Mihailovic and unification of anticommunist-collaborationist forces (some of them, such as Dimitrije Ljotić's ZBOR were openly fascist and anti-US, anti-British and anti-Soviet) against (pro-)communist partisans and denying USSR chance to enter in Yugoslavia and thus gain access to Mediterranean ports. Mission was unsuccessful: anticommunist/collaborationist forces did unite (but they would do it anyway, without US aid), but Wehrmacht did not surrender to chetniks and chetniks did not obtain German weaponry. In matter of fact, chetniks even more relied upon Axis help (supplies and combat operations). McDowell's mission was canceled due to Churchill's pressure; he feared that Allied mission among would strain relations with partisan leader Tito and Stalin (Western Allies were still fighting in France in summer/early autumn of 1944). It also sealed fate of Mihailovic, as he believed that Western Allies would not allow victory of communism in Yugoslavia and he never fled from the country, thus allowing partisans to destroy his movement, capture him and publicly expose his high treason on trial in 1946.
Love the new format!! What software do you use in making the videos? :)
Adobe After Effects
Very interesting video! Keep it up!
Make a video on the soviet pilots in the Korean war.
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There's a great plaque in the park across the street from that house Dundonald Park I've read it a few times pretty interesting
2:10 "Residents"
So in other words, it was The Red Bear started the Cold War
@abe Lincoln Fuck off you commie apologist.The Soviet Union tried to reach all the way to Berlin in the early 20's.It was Poland who stopped them. THAT was the beginning.
" And even nuked cities and killed civilians" AHAHAHAHAHAH,a shitstain who never heard of the massacres and rapes perpetrated by the Red Army. Hell,in the Manchurian Strategic Offensive, it got so bad even the Chinese commies managed to find their balls and protested the rape of the local women.
Oh boi, those Russians are extremely sofisticated, but also extremely sloppy in everything!! Well done by Igor. Would be nice to watch a video about the US intelligence in the cold war in different nations.
Amazing!
When will they say Cold War 2 started? My guess will be either the 2014 invasion (or whatever you want to call it) of Crimea or the 2008 invasion of Georgia
Us invasion of Afghanistan 2001
@@if1259 I think the Russian Federation laughed at the USA for invading Afghanistan and Iraq. The invasion of Crimea was the Russian response to the disaster the USA made of Libya. It ended Dmitry Medevdev's career, too, and if there is to be a Cold War 2 I think Libya will be why. Then again, Putin is very old and his grudges might die when he does. We'll see.
Oh yes, that's what was missing from this cold war channel, some good spy intrigue.
Never enough info on the spy intrigues of The Cold War !
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Hey, the poutine was not even discovered back then!
The plural of "resident" is "residents" - not "residence".
The Cold War began before the end of WW2 by a joint decision of the US and British governments, the iniative began with the OSS and the M16 and other British inteligence agencies. The well documented book M16 provides hard evidence about that fact. Furthermore, and issue of World Politics from the 90's(can't recall the exact issue), after researching the soviet archives, explains that the USSR was never interested in a conflict with the West but that the aggressive Western policy was the cause of a generalized soviet paranoia on fears of a Western militart aggression. Usual Western war mongering, aggression and genocides.
Has there been any conjecture about the Cold War starting BEFORE WW2? I understand that during the USSR's revolution the UK had sent troops to fight for the White Army. After the revolution, the USSR tried to open up trade with the UK and was rebuffed until 1921 when a trade agreement was struck. If one believes the view that the West was fighting against Communism taking over (the way the Cold War is discussed in the US) it would make sense that the White Army support of the UK was part of the Cold War, and when the West fully allied with the UK against the Germans, the Cold War the UK began carried over to the rest of the West. This would mean WW2 interrupted the Cold War, and that Fascism was a greater threat to the Cold War-ing nations, one which I think the end of the Cold War supports as it ended without direct bloodshed (as you noted), but it also would trace the beginning of the Cold War back to the beginning of the USSR and it's 'worker control' versus Capitalist control, which again is what the argument is framed as in my US-centered education.
It has been argued by historians like Dr. Jeremy Black that the Cold War started as early as the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 as a war of ideologies.
I think there is a valid argument there but there are also a lot of qualifications and caveats that need to be applied to the argument prior to the SWW. Because of the unequivocal nature of the situation post-1945, I prefer the more traditional definition of the Cold War timeframe.
The second Red Scare started in 1940 with the Smith "gag" Act and 18 leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party.
Wiki "VENONA' while you are there too.
This video is very good,
can you allow me to reprint the video of your channel to the Chinese video website BiliBili?
Because the Chinese can't watch videos on UA-cam.
incredible that ive never heard of this dude
The guy is a traitor for one country and Patriot for another..
That music at the start tho...
Why do I even bother...
A resident spy in the world of espionage is an agent operating within a foreign country for extended periods of time. A base of operations within a foreign country with which a resident spy may liaise is known as a "station" in English and a rezidentura (резиденту́ра, 'residency') in Russian.[1][2] What the U.S. would call a "station chief", the head spy, is known as a rezident (резиде́нт) in Russian.[1]
I just wish we had paid attention before it escalated to the point where it is today.
Jump scare got me
What if he and none of the spies were found out about?
It would take a little longer to change the public perception
Pouitine (YUMM!!) hadn't been invented when Gouzenko came to Canada.
1971 indo pak war best example of cold war
And something that affects us to this day
Good episode but I prefer a less visual and playful approach. Just the host speaking with some occasional visuals is better IMO
Wiki "The Ware Network" too.....you really need to.
so does this channel have a cooperation with The Great War channel and World War Two channel? because you seem to be copying their format. also links to the materials your are using for the videos would be awesome.
besides that though i appreciate your videos, great content!
so ive checked through a bunch of your videos and i cant find any reference to what kind of study materials you use. disapointing to say the least.
loved it
Damn Canada fucking up hard
If it hadn't been so damn friendly he would not have defected.
For background on Soviet activities during WWII in NA look up George Racey Jordan.
It started during the Spanish Civil War.
Poutine and Hockey are why I like Canada, LOL
Noice, very good video
Your CC is messed up
Please do mcarthy’s hearings!
It was definitely the poutine
Out of date union flag at 7:18
WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS MASON?!
They made a movie starring dana andrews about him
Hey uhhh what’s up with the giant 1488 that takes up the whole screen at 8:09? It’s the only number to be that large or to appear in the center of the screen.
I noticed that as well, that's a bit odd.
im fairly sure its a complete accident
Why do show Germany before the devision with the wrong borders?
Looks like soviets were best at espionage
Agents and spies play a key role in speeding up the manufacturing of USSR's nuclear weapon, as I read in a book.
The CCCP tended was to use people. Having lots of people, they had little fear of losing people.
The west, hated losing people, and placed more and more resources into technology.
To be really good at espionage, you need to balance both people and technology. The deciding factor, resources. The CCCP had more people as a resource. The west with a good economy relied on technology.
@@knutdergroe9757 lol The Soviets barely had any people left at the end of the war. Let alone people of good education and intelligence. They tried to compensate that with discipline and severe punishment for mistakes. Thus leading to the defection mentioned in the episode. Ofcourse this is all oversimplification, but a far better one than the one you gave I believe.
Wrong UK flag at 7:22 mate, you've used the Pre-1801 flag of Great Britain, not the current post-1801 flag with the extra cross.
Please try and get these things right! It does damage credibility, and I won't be the only one noticing this stuff.
Otherwise, a good video and a great channel. :-)
A movie based on memories entitled "As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me" (2001) detailed a German officer Clemens Forell, (enlisted man Cornelius Rost) captured in 1942 and then moved to a POW camp within 100 miles of the Bering Strait. He escaped (1949) and miraculously walked all the way to Iran (1952). In a moving scene in Tashkent (I think) he is saved by a Jewish man who 1. knows he is a former German soldier and what the Nazis did. The reality for both was how equally and in some ways even more evil communism was. The antagonist is this Russian GRU officer whose whole being is in tracking and putting this man back in the Gulag. The man kept these facts to himself once he was able to return to West Germany for many years because of his justifiable fear the reds would seek him out and kidnap him back to the Rodina.
Damn frostbacks 😏
People think MN is Canadian.....
Nnnnnnnope!
I'm sorry but NOBODY defects for poutine
Wow, never heard of this, and I thought I was pretty well-up on Cold War stuff. When I was in school, I did a project covering The Rosenberg Case, where a husband and wife were accused and killed for "selling nuclear secrets"...they probably had nothing to do with it. :-(
@Eric Sell
Venona Decrypts proved they were Soviet Spies
The cold war started because no one wanted to turn on the heat.
Bad pun reward- Nuclear Holocaust
Mmmh... Poutine...
Espionage? Again?
McCarthy was completely justified.
W video
- CHC2P
The 2 books by Gouzenko are added to my reading list. Thanks. Nice work as always.
What I think really happened: ua-cam.com/video/onR7PD3Grc0/v-deo.html
It started in 1920 when the British and their allies left the Russian empire and allowed Bolsheviks to win the civil war.
Died One Year after the Fall of USSR, well he got his work pay out.
So now the USSR fell in 1982??? 9 years before it actually fell or this is a parallel universe LoL
One year before the Able Archer crisis
Got lucky
“The allies didn’t expect the soviets to spy on them...” Apparently they’ve never heard of Israel lol
OK, seriously, poutine didn’t exist yet in the 1940s! And for most of its history was only associated with Quebec.