Igor Guzinko defected 80 years ago. The courage of the Cold War era was not forgotten

For 20 years, the grave of a former Soviet encryption writer revealed his defection from a secret spying in Canada in the Mississoga Cemetery, Oanton.

Without seeing the grave, he left amid the remaining fears of revenge from Moscow. The tombs of Igor Guzinko and his wife Svetlana have been identified since 2002 by a large Moskoka rock carrying a plate with their names and the phrase “We have chosen freedom for the car.”

A small gathering in the grave was at the end of this week represented 80 years since Guzinko defected from the Soviet Union, Smuggling 109 secret documents In his shirt from the Ottawa embassy and hand it over to Ottawa Journal offices in 1945.

It is called by some historians called Gouznko, and some historians consider it the beginning of the cold war.

Speaking about a century after a century of Springcreek Cemetery in Mississoga, the daughter of Guzinko Evi Wilson said that her parents had acted “automatically” with one goal in mind.

“They wanted to warn the West,” Wilson said. “That’s it. Full stop. They had no other task but to warn the West that the Soviets had a nuclear weapon, and they had the atomic bomb.”

She said that the celebration of splitting is especially important at the present time, as the tensions between Western democracies and Russia calm down amid the Ukrainian war.

Secret documents revealed a spying episode

In the same year with the defection of Guzinko, Hitler’s fascist forces were defeated in World War II, and atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

On September 5, 1945, Guzinko It was assigned with the documents that reveal The Soviet spying episode that works in Canada has penetrated the main government departments, the Canadian army and a laboratory with the ability to reach the secrets of the bomb.

“They had a unique window for the basic mission, which was the development of the atomic bomb,” said Wilson, who was born in 1946 near Oshua, Onton, at X camp, the first spying training facility in North America.

“That was one of their main tasks in that particular embassy in the Soviet regime. The Ottawa embassy was a key to transferring data.”

The extent of Soviet espionage, which was revealed in the stolen documents, has caused great concern in the power halls across Western democracies.

Gouznko is concerned about revenge for the rest of his life, and he lives unknown in a suburb west of Toronto and wearing a bag on his head while appearances on TV.

A bronze board celebrated Gouznko at the Dundonald Park Park in Ottawa in 2004, across the street from the Brown Brick Apartment building on Sumrest Street where he lived with his wife and child before his defection.

Guzinko died in 1982, but he saw the grave bearing his name only after his wife was buried next to him in 2001.

Sofit is not the thought in Canada

Without the ceremony, the ceremony was attended on Saturday in Mississoga.

In 1976, skills moved from Saskashwan to Ottawa to work with the RCMP safety service. One of his first responsibilities was to deal with the Gouznko file.

For MAAR, who continued to work in combating spy for the rest of his career, the memory of the personal importance of “closing the circle” from his time as a young mountain to this day.

But he said history is also an opportunity to get to know Guzinko’s role in shedding light on the Soviet threat to the West in the Cold War era.

Maher said: “In fact, the Soviets were running a spy against all of us, and they were not the allies we thought they were,” Maher said. “This has continued to this day.”

For Wilson, the anniversary may help shed light on this date.

“Today, every person has nuclear weapons, and we are at the edge of World War III under the most wonderful circumstances,” Wilson said.

“My parents, until the day they died, I thought they had taken the right choice.”