George Blake, last in line of Cold War spies who betrayed Britain, dies at 98

[Scott]

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14 hours ago, Tug said:

Good riddance scum bag!

 

9 hours ago, Kelsall said:

Suprising, coming from you.

But your comment not surprising at all. Alas.

[bendejo]

My intro to Cold War espionage was through John Le Carre's fiction, and then I read up on Burgess, McClain, and the Philby, "the third man."  I didn't know there were five, never heard of this one before. 

Ed Snowden reads the obit and sighs...

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

10 hours ago, Nout said:

Please don't put words in my mouth. I wasnt comparing the traitor Blake to the DM or the Royal Family. You are just trolling and misrepresenting me.

You compared Blake to Nazi sympathizers, I simply pointed out some example for you.

[Bluespunk]

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[Nout]

15 hours ago, 7by7 said:

 

You did say 

 

Nazi sympathisers in the 1930s included those mentioned by @Chomper Higgot. Not all the Royal Family, but some.

That was a 100 years ago and is irrelevant now I'm pretty sure they have changed. The aims of the woke leftists have not changed. That is the difference. The agenda to destroy western values as planned by Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Beria remains in place, has not changed, is promoted by Putin and the Chinese State and others and is being carried out by a combination of cynical and ignorant, frequently young woke activists. It is infantile but typical of leftist apologists to reference ONE errant member of the Royal Family and one newspaper policy from a hundred years ago BUT WILFULLY IGNORE the death and destruction caused by the imposition of socialism on millions of people. Keep it real and for goodness sake leave the 6th form politics behind.

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1 minute ago, Nout said:

That was a 100 years ago and is irrelevant now I'm pretty sure they have changed. The aims of the woke leftists have not changed. That is the difference. The agenda to destroy western values as planned by Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Beria remains in place, has not changed, is promoted by Putin and the Chinese State and others and is being carried out by a combination of cynical and ignorant, frequently young woke activists. It is infantile but typical of leftist apologists to reference ONE errant member of the Royal Family and one newspaper policy from a hundred years ago BUT WILFULLY IGNORE the death and destruction caused by the imposition of socialism on millions of people. Keep it real and for goodness sake leave the 6th form politics behind.

Keep it real? It is to laugh.

[spiekerjozef]

R.I.P George.

Now that's what I call serving your country.

What a hero.

[7by7]

6 hours ago, Nout said:

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That was a 100 years ago and is irrelevant now I'm pretty sure they have changed.

It was you who brought Nazi sympathisers up when you compared Blake to them. Why did you do that if it's as irrelevant as you now say?

 

Much of the rest of your post is also about the past, much of it pre Nazism which you now call irrelevant!

[Justgrazing]

On 12/26/2020 at 11:36 PM, rooster59 said:

during his time in a North Korean prison that he became a committed Communist, reading the works of Karl Marx and feeling outrage at heavy U.S. bombing of North Korea

 

But the communism idealogy espoused by Marx was not the version of famine , mass deportation , ethic cleansing and murder on an industrial scale that Stalin enacted once he'd seized total control through intimidation of the Party that Blake was well aware of before jumping ship ..

Russia thereselves were not averse to aerial bombing ..

Konigsberg in East Prussia 1941 was one the Red airforce practiced on .. and they more than played their part in flattening everything in their path to Berlin 4 yrs later ..

 

 

On 12/26/2020 at 11:36 PM, rooster59 said:

 

"It was an ideal which, if it could have been achieved, would have been well worth it," he said.

 

"I thought it could be, and I did what I could to help it, to build such a society. It has not proved possible. But I think it is a noble idea and I think humanity will return to it.

 

It is an idealogy that consistently fails and contributed to the famine within Russia during the 1930's that lead to the deaths of 100's of thousands and  again in the late 40's all the while comrade Joe was piling the countries resources into making nuclear bombs .. Nor did Blake's conscience extend to the countries like Poland , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , The Baltic States , etc who were within the orbit of the Russians at the end of WW2 who would have to take part in the experiment whether they wanted to or not by way of being saddled with puppet administrations charged with carrying out Moscow's directive's .. and woe betide any Nation's citizens that kicked back at the enforced participation as Hungary and Czechoslovakia found out .. and in the case of the Operation Danube that crushed the Czech uprising some of the satellite nations that neighboured it were made to take part .. I'm sure that sat well with Blake after his mealy mouthed indignation at the perceived injustice of the U S bombing of North Korea .. Blake is , was and always will be the worst kind of traitor as he tried to seek justification for his treason with epic hypocrisy and near delusional belief that what he was doing was right ..