And may you rot in Hell. So George Blake is dead. The erstwhile Soviets may sing his praises, but he will always be a traitor, a worm who fled, unable to take the consequences of his treachery.
Perhaps most telling is this:
He once said in praise of communism: ‘I think it is never wrong to give your life to a noble ideal. And to a noble experiment even if it doesn’t succeed.’
To live through the Soviet era and still, after all the death and destruction, to believe it a noble cause demonstrates that he was at heart an evil, stupid man. There is nothing noble about communism. It is a vile, merciless, misanthropic, destructive force that we are still having to combat to this day, because there are new generations who are beguiled by its façade of egalitarianism. People, like Blake, incapable of seeing the evidence for what it is who are not only taken in by it, but would force it upon the rest of us.
I love the way that, as with all good traitors, he was nevertheless a sufficient fan of Britian’s institutions, in this case it’s legal system, to sue for his filthy capitalist royalties. Tedious, pretentious fool.
Traitors & Spies are difficult to be rational about. We loved our German ones in WWII and our USSR ones. However we hate those are traitors to us.
New generations who are beguiled by communism & socialism façade of egalitarianism are the biggest threat to humanity. Worse is the idiocy of excusing it’s failue everytime it’s been tried, yet believing it will work this/next time…
…rather like lockdowns which Left also adore
I remember fall of Berlin wall and USSR (Thank you Margaret and Ronald) in 1990 and the footage, docus etc about life behind Iron Curtain. Life in every way was like 1930/40s Britain: food, clothes, vehicles, tractors with retail stuck in ration book 1945 and hospitality, leisure, news and entertainment almost non-existent.
At the time I thought seeing how awful communism & socialism really were would convince even ardent Lefties to abandon their quest
Yes, one man’s traitor is another’s hero. Blake, however, was working for a nasty, oppressive, totalitarian ideology and had plenty of opportunity to see it for what it is and never repented. Ergo, he was an evil man.
It says a great deal about our feeble system here, that Randall and Pottle didn’t get the stiff prison sentences they so richly deserved.
I understand that Blake was given the rank of Colonel in the KGB, with all the perks that that entailed, so I don’t think he went without as much as the ordinary subject of the USSR. I can only hope that the location of his grave is widely publicised so visitors to Putin’s fiefdom can piss on it.