#sovietraid

Picture #4: Igor Gouzenko’s Somerset street apartment #4 is where his family and he used to live while he worked as a cipher clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. When Igor Gouzenko hid from the Soviet officials in his neighbour’s apartment, a quartet of Soviet Embassy officials literally broke down the door to his apartment. Luckily someone called the Canadian police, and when they found that the Soviet Embassy officials had tried to attack Gouzenko, the government of Canada started to believe his story.