[Politics] George Blake dies.

[Pinkie Brown]

Those of a certain age will recall this person. George Blake, the notorious double agent traitor from the cold war era who fled Britain after being sprung from jail and fleeing to Moscow has died aged 98. One of those people I thought had died years ago tbh. Blake ended up working for the KGB and never expressed regret for his actions. In todays Britain, Blake would probably have been elevated to the House of Lords.


https://news.sky.com/story/george-blake-cold-war-british-soviet-double-agent-dies-aged-98-12172722

 

[joydivisionovengloves]

Their crimes were even more heinous when you think that from their positions in the MI5 they would have been fully aware of the millions murdered by Stalin and the oppression handed out by subsequent Soviet leaders. Good riddance.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Says a lot for the British sense of fair play that the **** lived to the ripe old age of 98

 

[blue-shifted]

The word traitor is bandied around inaccurately sometimes .... but this bloke was a traitor. The very definition of one.

No mourning from me

 

[vegster]

Those of a certain age will recall this person. George Blake, the notorious double agent traitor from the cold war era who fled Britain after being sprung from jail and fleeing to Moscow has died aged 98. One of those people I thought had died years ago tbh. Blake ended up working for the KGB and never expressed regret for his actions. In todays Britain, Blake would probably have been elevated to the House of Lords.


https://news.sky.com/story/george-blake-cold-war-british-soviet-double-agent-dies-aged-98-12172722

Indeed, here is the son of a former ( Can you ever leave ? ) KGB operative ascending to the House of Lords....

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/evgeny-lebedev-in-house-of-lords-6855550

 

[Doonhamer7]

Had he not fled to Moscow I expect he would have found himself on the wrong end of a bit of rope