You know, on Sept 5th 1945 Igor Gouzenko walked outof the Soviet Embassy, he was a lowly...
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You know, on Sept 5th 1945 Igor Gouzenko walked out
of the Soviet Embassy, he was a lowly cypher clerk,
and stuffed under his shirt were 108 documents
that found its way to the RCMP. It revealed that the
civil service had been widely penetrated by the,
it was then called the NKVD, later the KGB, and that started
the whole process of looking at the
backgrounds of the people who were working
for the government
of the Soviet Embassy, he was a lowly cypher clerk,
and stuffed under his shirt were 108 documents
that found its way to the RCMP. It revealed that the
civil service had been widely penetrated by the,
it was then called the NKVD, later the KGB, and that started
the whole process of looking at the
backgrounds of the people who were working
for the government
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- You know, on Sept 5th 1945
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Igor Gouzenko walked out
of the Soviet Embassy,
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he was a lowly cypher clerk,
and stuffed under his shirt
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were 108 documents
that found its way to the RCMP.
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It revealed that the
civil service had been
00:00:20.819 --> 00:00:25.891
widely penetrated by the,
it was then called the NKVD,
00:00:25.958 --> 00:00:31.053
later the KGB, and that started
the whole process of
00:00:31.597 --> 00:00:34.633
looking at the
backgrounds of the people
00:00:34.007 --> 00:00:36.535
who were working
for the government.
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Movie Summary
Some softened by age and sadness, others loud and angry, the voices of the survivors of Canada’s public service homosexual purge are now united, and determined. They are torqued by decades of silence, years of being ignored. They demand justice, and they want to be heard. Theirs is a story of betrayal that is both national and deeply personal. Men and women who dedicated their lives to public service, some signing oaths of allegiance and servitude; casualties of a political tapestry woven in the fibers of acute security measures that somehow became normalized.
