Innis's trip to Moscow and Leningrad came shortly before US–Soviet rivalry led to the hostility of the Cold War. Innis lamented the rise in international tensions.Creighton, p. 122. He saw the Soviet Union as a stabilizing counterbalance to the American emphasis on commercialism, the individual and constant change. For Innis, Russia was a society within the Western tradition, not an alien civilization. He abhorred the nuclear arms race and saw it as the triumph of force over knowledge, a modern form of the medieval Inquisition. "The Middle Ages burned its heretics," he wrote, "and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs."Innis, (Bias) p. 139.
Innis's trip to Moscow and Leningrad came shortly before US–Soviet rivalry led to the hostility of the Cold War Innis lamented the rise in international tensionsCreighton p 122 He saw the Soviet Union as a stabilizing counterbalance to the American emphasis on commercialism the individual and constant change For Innis Russia was a society within the Western tradition not an alien civilization He abhorred the nuclear arms race and saw it as the triumph of force over knowledge a modern form of the medieval Inquisition "The Middle Ages burned its heretics" he wrote "and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs"Innis (Bias) p 139