Privy to diplomatic, scientific and military secrets.
Canadians targeted by Soviet espionage worked in sensitive positions. These revelations caused a potentially dangerous international crisis. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success.” Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. “Let us not be deceived,” he said, “we are In 1947, American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch coined the phrase Cold War to describe the relationship between the US and Soviet Union. Over half of the convictions under the Official Secrets Act were a result of Gouzenko's defection. Montreal, the United States and the United Kingdom who had been providing Moscow with classified information. 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. This situation led former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to state on 5 Marchġ946 that an “iron curtain” had fallen across the European continent. This was done without due democratic process. Kept local communist 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 Allies were alreadyĭivided ideologically. The Cold War was rooted in the collapse of the American-British-Soviet alliance that defeated Germany and Japan in the Second World War. The eastern Ghouta area had nearly two million people before the conflict, and was a major industrial and commercial hub before the war, with rural zones that provided residents of the capital with their main source of fresh produce and dairy.An S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile (SAM) in front of the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps in St. More than 1,600 people have been killed in some of the fiercest bombing of the war, and thousands more have been injured, according to rescuers and a war monitor. The Syrian military backed by Russian firepower has overrun most of eastern Ghouta in an operation that began on Feb. It accused Damascus and Moscow of seeking to impose demographic change by forcing residents to leave.Ī witness in Douma reached by telephone said dozens of residents took to the streets of the city on Wednesday calling on rebels and opposition-led authorities negotiating with the Russians to reveal more information about the talks.Īlthough Jaish al-Islam denies planning to leave, two rebel sources said the fighters are weighing options including leaving for rebel-held areas further northeast in Qalamoun, or in southern Syria, despite some opposition by rival rebels there. The rebel group said on Tuesday that Russia had yet to give an answer to its proposals. The area had been quieter in recent days as Jaish al-Islam had negotiated with Russian forces. The town was the main centre of street protests in the Damascus suburbs against Assad’s rule that ignited the conflict seven years ago. Routed by the Russian-backed Syrian army, rebels in other parts of eastern Ghouta are leaving in convoys to insurgent-held areas in the northwest under withdrawal deals that are restoring Assad’s control.ĭouma’s fall would seal the rebels’ heaviest defeat since 2016, driving them from their last big stronghold near the capital, and would also carry potent symbolism. Most of the militants have set out big conditions, and the Russians and the Syrians have refused them,” the commander said.Ī war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the Syrian military had resumed artillery bombardment of Douma, where blasts were heard. But a commander in the regional alliance fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad said late on Wednesday that the talks had stopped. The group has been negotiating about the town of Douma with the government’s main ally Russia.
A man walks on rubble of damaged buildings in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria March 21, 2018.
0 kommentar(er)
