Canada and Russia: Cold War Stereotypes Inverted - The AGENDA ...

Growing up in Canada in the 1980s, the Cold War was kind of an abstract concept. Of course, we had the opportunity to drill for what to do in case of nuclear attack, but the broader context of the Cold War had disappeared. Except when it came to hockey. It was the Cold War here: it started in 1972, when Canada and the Soviets played a game-8 Summit Series, 4 games in Canada, then 4 games in the USSR. Canadians thought it would be cake. After Game 4 in Vancouver, Canada has been booed on the ice after losing 5-3.En route to the USSR, Canada trailed 2 games to 1 in the series (Part 3 at Winnipeg tied after the allocation of teams for the first two games in Montreal and Toronto). Team Canada Phil Esposito has reacted to the booing in Vancouver during a post-game interview:

Canada came to win the Summit Series, scoring the last minute of the game 8 in Moscow. Legends have been built around this series and, in part, around Rant Esposito. Because Canada and the Soviet Union found themselves in the international game throughout the 70s and 80s, a stereotype emerged in both nations, according to their hockey players.Canada, we've been good, the avid hockey players would do anything to win. The Soviets, they were the Commies heart, mechanical and humorless. The international series came and went. Even club teams got into it. Apparently, the biggest hockey game of all time was played on New Year's Eve 1975 at the Montreal Forum, the Montreal Canadiens played Central Red Army to a 3-3 draw.

Thus, given these stereotypes, I had to laugh this afternoon while reading the local English-language newspaper in Montreal.The Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon is in the Arctic this week, just after landing at Resolute Bay, Nunavut, to inspect the activities of the Canadians who work to prove the allegations in the Canadian Arctic archipelago before maturity of 2013. Cannon was impressed by their work, but not so impressed by the Russian actions....

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