September 1945: Gouzenko Affair On Sept. 5, 1945, just after the end of the Second World War, a Russian cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko (pictured left) fled the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa with 109 documents proving the existence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada. His revelations reverberated throughout the world and helped to ignite the Cold War. Some of those revelations reported that results of atomic bomb research might have been leaked to the Kremlin. The Government of …showed first 75 words of 867 total…

…showed last 75 words of 867 total…had left the British furious, because Canada violated the rule of not interfering with other nations' affairs in the Commonwealth. This however, shows how Canada was taking a new leadership role within the commonwealth. As a result, when the commonwealth set up its headquarters in London England, the first secretary-general was a Canadian. The liberated black people of South Africa (seen protesting- right) have Canada to thank for the abomination of apartheid and racial suppression.