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S4: The Fruit Machine

The Secret Life of Canada

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This episode contains strong language and content, because history does in recognizing a communist. If he openly declares himself to be a communist, we take his word for it. But there are other communists who don't show their real faces, who work more silently. This is the story of how canada attempted to purge queer people out of the civil service and the military. And one of the ways they did this was by creating a device that was supposed to be able to detect homosexuality.

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