British MI6 agents Kim Philby and George Blake, who defected to the Soviet Union, with their wives at Blake's dacha outside Moscow, USSR, 1975.

[u/Banzay_87]

[u/The__Hivemind_]

Heroes

[u/LachrymarumLibertas]

One of the many people who warned Stalin of Barbarossa but was ignored, sadly.

Though his intel about Japan not being interested in invading the USSR was used really well, and let some troops be redeployed to the west when they were sorely needed.

[u/Regular_Ad_8004]

+rep

[u/DasistMamba]

A communist who earns money in the country he betrayed, and sues it. Imagine if Gardievsky had published a book in the USSR and sued the authorities.

"In 1990, Blake published the autobiography No Other Choice. The book's British publisher had paid him approximately £60,000 before the government intervened to stop him profiting from sales. Eventually, the amount seized by the government totalled £90,000.He later filed a complaint charging the British government with a human rights violation for taking nine years to decide on his case and was awarded £5,000 in compensation by the European Court of Human Rights."

[u/Own-Ticket4371]

why do people defect to the ussr?

[u/Neduard → u/Own-Ticket4371]

Because they hated capitalism and were communist.

[u/Blond_Treehorn_Thug → u/Neduard]

Mental illness makes people do all kinds of crazy things

[u/Neduard → u/Blond_Treehorn_Thug]

Thank you for demonstrating your point.

[u/Positive_Ad6908 → u/Own-Ticket4371]

The world is not black and white. When a person begins to understand that the other side is right, that your country is making mistakes. You are simply helping it.

[u/Own-Ticket4371 → u/Positive_Ad6908]

yeah, havent thought it in that perspective