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Uh, welcome back to Dark Poutine. I am Mike Brown and across the table is Matthew Stockton.

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

Oh God, we're going there. It's just a matter of time. We've talked about that here on this show before. So, uh, people have equated us to the Bob and Doug of podcasting.

Am I Bob or you Bob? I think I'm Bob. Yeah, I think I'm Doug. Yeah. I'm pretty pretty sure I'm Bob, uh, sort of the crustier older brother. Yeah, which makes sense. Anyway, so we've got a bit of a palette cleanse of this week.

We're going away from the murder, right? And we're going to look at the cold war. Yeah, not that kind of cold.

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Canada played an important role in the Cold War, a period of intense geopolitical tension and rivalry between the Western powers and the Soviet Union that lasted from the end of World War II in 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

As a member of the Western blog and a close ally of the United States, Canada was involved in a wide range of Cold War activities including the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO,

the construction of a network of radar stations in the Canadian Arctic known as the Do line, and the creation of a series of underground emergency government bunkers known as deepened bunkers.

The Cold War also had a significant impact on Canadian society shaping public attitudes toward issues such as national security, nuclear weapons and international relations.

Canada's involvement in the Cold War was also marked by several important events and figures.

One of the most significant of these was the defection of Soviet intelligence officer Igor Guzenko in 1945.

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