I can attest to the ubiquitous Soviet friends active in Ottawa in the 1980s. As a left-wing Carleton social sciences undergraduate in the 1980s, the invitations to discussion sessions and coffee parties were plentiful. We were undergrads so the "idiots" goes without saying; "useful," for the most of us definitely not. Actually, given my …
I can attest to the ubiquitous Soviet friends active in Ottawa in the 1980s. As a left-wing Carleton social sciences undergraduate in the 1980s, the invitations to discussion sessions and coffee parties were plentiful. We were undergrads so the "idiots" goes without saying; "useful," for the most of us definitely not. Actually, given my lack of money at the time, I would have appreciated some sort of Soviet pay-off ;-) We used to joke about it.
Also true at Bell Northern Research in the 80’s in Ottawa. All new employees watched a film of how Russian agents would try and build relationships with engineers, but I never heard of it actually happening. Then again in the 90’s the Nortel CEO and others gave all the corporate tech to China to turn into Huawei - talk about useful idiots since they even did away with their/our own company to help Huawei compete.
I can attest to the ubiquitous Soviet friends active in Ottawa in the 1980s. As a left-wing Carleton social sciences undergraduate in the 1980s, the invitations to discussion sessions and coffee parties were plentiful. We were undergrads so the "idiots" goes without saying; "useful," for the most of us definitely not. Actually, given my lack of money at the time, I would have appreciated some sort of Soviet pay-off ;-) We used to joke about it.
Also true at Bell Northern Research in the 80’s in Ottawa. All new employees watched a film of how Russian agents would try and build relationships with engineers, but I never heard of it actually happening. Then again in the 90’s the Nortel CEO and others gave all the corporate tech to China to turn into Huawei - talk about useful idiots since they even did away with their/our own company to help Huawei compete.