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I wasn't aware of his involvement with Stalin pre-Barbarossa however.
So his involvement with Stalin after 1945 doesn’t bother you at all.
Good to know.
I wasn't aware of his involvement with Stalin pre-Barbarossa however.
So his involvement with Stalin after 1945 doesn’t bother you at all.
Good to know.
That's not what I meant at all, I'm pretty antagonistic towards both secret services in the Cold War, especially Stalin.
So you come into a thread specifically discussing Kim Philby, one of the most notorious Spies for the Soviet Union, an unapologetic agent for Joseph Stalin and try repeatedly, but with little success to make a case for moral equivalency where none exists?
Actually it was more the fact that things like treachery were being focused on more than the fact that he was a Stalinist agent.
True, the people who helped Blake escape from prison werent prosecuted either
Kim Philby, who was a spy for the Soviets working in the British government, caused much damage to western interests before defecting to the Soviet Union sometime around 1963. For his long service to their cause, the Russians gave him an apartment in Moscow, and a pension. He spent the rest of his life here. Once, years later, he told an interviewer that he had no regrets about what he had done. [I don't believe this. I'm sure he would have loved to have seen England again, and I can't think of anything more depressing than spending one's last years in a dingy, gray Moscow apartment.] He died sometime in the late 80s, during Gorbachev's administration.
But WI he had lived several years longer, say to about 1996? It would have been real poetic justice for him to have seen the demise of the Soviet Union, eastern Europe liberated, and communism declared one of the biggest disasters of the 20th century by historians. The question is, would the British govt. want him back, to put him on trial for treason? How would the Yeltsin administration respond to this? Would the British people scream for justice? I doubt the Russian people would care, one way or the other. Comments?
if Kim Philby doesn't die, the Soviet Union can't collapse.
-Tim Powers, Declare