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Michael Kovrig with his wife, Vina Nadjibulla, after arriving at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Sept. 25, 2021. Kovrig and fellow Canadian Michael Spavor were imprisoned in China on baseless charges for nearly three years. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn
In his famous 1947 article “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” the American diplomat and historian George Kennan described the “innate antagonism” between socialism and capitalism and how this had become “deeply embedded” in the foundations of the Soviet regime, making peaceful coexistence between the Soviet Union and the West difficult.
