On September 5, 1945, Ottawa made headlines around the world when a cyber clerk in the Soviet embassy, Igor Gouzenko, defected, carrying with him a hundred documents revealing a spy ring operating on Canadian soil. It incriminated thirty-eight suspects of whom eighteen were charged and convicted.
It was the beginning of the Cold War.
On March 6, 1946, Churchill made a speech in Fulton, Missouri:
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
Eric Koch’s new book, New Beginnings, was launched on September 20. The book is available from 
A recently published book entitled “New Beginnings” has an interesting take on the subject.