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Amidst today’s climate of war between “our” Canadian bourgeoisie, the U.S./NATO imperialists, and Russia, it becomes of the utmost importance to stress the ties that our two peoples have had historically, leading up to the present. Even when the Canadian government has been hostile to Russia, the people, and first of all the working class, have always spoken up in defence of peace, friendship and amity between Canada and Russia. One of the greatest examples of this is in the Russian Civil War, when the Canadian hirelings, called upon by their British masters, sent an expeditionary force to crush the Bolsheviks. At that time, the people decried the imperialist intervention, saw it for what it was, demanded to bring the force home, and sent food instead to Russia to ease the Anglo-American imperialist-imposed famine. Or during the Second World War, when Russia, as the leading republic of the Soviet Union, the Great Patriotic War and the whole world anti-fascist war, was fighting for her national sovereignty and Canadians came to her defence. Even prior to diplomatic relations, Canadians demanded and actually sent, from their own pockets, millions of dollars to defend Russia, labour unions voted to send one day’s pay per month to help their war effort, and so on. Though the book contains some illusions about a post-war idyllic peace between imperialist and anti-imperialist forces, a falsity which came to nought as a result of imperialist hostility in beginning their “Cold War” and “Red Scare,” about which the publishers have written a preface, it remains an important contribution to peace between the Canada and Russia.