That privilege is the key here, probably. Here is a man that on a critical level saw this work mostly as a game, in an entirely self-centered way. This is why it is so dangerous to recruit diplomatic and intelligence staff entirely from the upper classes.
Well George Blake who certainly wasn't born privileged got 45 years when convicted as a spy.The privileged class have always enjoyed immunity and believe me it will be forever thus.
ex ww2 MI5 officer Tomas Harris died in a mysterious car crash in early 1964 and he was close friends with Kim Philby...there has always been a question mark...
@ pretty sure that’s “Thomas harris” different guy mate…Tomas Harris was an art dealer and worked for mi5 during ww2…he was Agent Garbo’s handler and worked with him to deceive the Germans.
@@Smudgeroon74 He wasn't, even the KGB said so after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was Cairncross. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rothschild,_3rd_Baron_Rothschild#Cold_War,_Shell_and_Think_Tank
Blunt, Philby, Burgess, MacLean and Cairncross, The Cambridge Five as they became known, all enjoyed privileged backgrounds and educated at Cambridge. None ever truly paid for their crimes. Now compare them to Geoffrey Prime who was sentenced to 35 years for espionage in 1982. Prime left state education with one O level in languages. The class system thrives in UK.
Communism has infected all the western academic institutions and societies. It has played the western civilisation like a flute and the mass demonstrations, movements and disregard for the rule of law that we see in the western world these days are a direct result of communist subversion polices of the 1980s coming to fruition now.
Relieving one's conscience by admitting to spying is one indulgence, betraying one's country with the likelihood of affecting the deaths of many others is another, greater sin. This silly old queen was given the privilege of a top Cambridge education, handsome salaries thereafter, and access to the finest estates of the land. Also put in high trust to the people of Great Britain, including royalty. He chose to betray it all for his "conscience", yet now expects us to take his word seriously.
Betrayal by a toff appears different to betrayal by a commoner. He relates his betrayal as if it’s some innocuous act. If this had been a commoner, someone from the ethnic minority there would have been a greater uproar. The establishment always covers itself
John Vassall , who spied for Russia after a compromise for seven years, was sentenced to 18 years (was a model prisoner, cooperated with the authorities, got out on parole in ten years). George Blake got 42 years but escaped after two or three years. Neither had gone to the posh schools or came from connected families. Blake was only British because his father, an Egyptian Jew, was granted British citizenship for fighting on the British side in WWI.
Nothing to do with his conscience, probably more to do with the Soviets having information in relation to his sexuality, easily blackmailed in those days.
If I were homosexual and had been threatened with exposure by Russian agents, I wouldn't have sold out my country, just to avoid opprobrium, disgrace or humiliation. Most decent people wouldn't because betraying your own country is one of the worst and evil crimes that it is possible to commit. Nobody held Blunt's mouth open and forced him to.... well, I don't need to go into detail. If he'd have just read his bible more frequently, he might have found the answers to the turmoil that went on in his depraved mind. Once, I nearly had an affair with my best friend's wife. I read the bible and was able to convince myself that to betray a friend was evil and I desisted. It was a tough decision but dignity prevailed. Blunt could have read the passages on homosexuality in the bible. Instead, he didn't and spied for a foreign country instead. Blunt was a lousy, stinking, disgusting, degenerate, cheat and a traitor. I was brought up in a poor household and went to a government state school. I'm a thousand times more of a gentleman than fancy-talking Blunt ever was. Thanks to the bible, thanks to good teachers, thanks to a father and mother who taught me morality. (And thanks, most of all, to me not giving in to my urges at the drop of a hat. These über privileged rich snobs never *lost* their moral compass. They probably never had a concept of decency in the first place.
You could see by the reaction on his face when the Interviewer asked that question. That's exactly what happened. In fact, that's what still happens to this day -- as per the Epstein business in the US.
He is lying through his teeth. Examine his language. Devious. I can’t watch anymore as his deceit makes me feel uncomfortable. I would not trust him as far as I can spit. When one hides the truth, plays a double game it still leaks out in your energy field, “vibe” as well as your language which you can never hide as your unconscious will always reveal the truth through language. To quote Hamlet” though murder hath no tongue it speaks with most miraculous organ” . The same with lies.
The term 'traitor' is peculiar, because it only applies to enemies. When a traitor works for us, he stops being a traitor and becomes a kind of hero. It doesn't matter whether he is guided by his conscience or by personal interest. If he works for us, it can only be for good reasons.
I just listened to a podcast that said he was probably responsible for the Germans having the plans to Market Garden, leading to the deaths of thousands of Allied servicemen, and this is what may have led him to tell the Soviets he was quitting espionage (but a talk with his handler sorted him out and he continued).
We still have the son of a KGB officer in the Lords in the U.K put in there by a former PM who went to his home in Italy, got hammered and potentially spewed state secrets without a security detail there.
@@sebastianvella8992And he's referring to Boris Johnson when he was Foreign Secretary in Theresa May's government. MI6 deemed the Foreign Secretary a security risk. And then the security risk became Prime Minister and suppressed the Russia Report. Just a few years ago.
Hard to believe that an individual as temperamentally unsound as Burgess would instill confidence in anyone he was trying to recruit particularly someone as full of himself as Blunt.
Read Spy Catcher by Peter Wright. Blunt had a letter from Burgess as Burgess was dying. Unrequited passion can be more powerful than actually having an affair.
Many otherwise intelligent people were flying a flag for Soviet Russia before the war. We had huge unemployment in our own country and democracy seemed unable to do anything about it. It's understandable that some people were flirting with extremist solutions (Blunt and co on the left and Mosley and co on the right). With fascism on the march in Germany it must have seemed to many that Soviet Russia might be our only bulwark in any coming war. And for a short time between the end of the Nazi Soviet pact and the entry of America into the war that was indeed the case. Did Blunt know of Stalin's purges? If so he was no worse than Churchill and Eisenhower who must also have known about these things but chose to ignore them in order to grasp Uncle Joe to their bosoms as an ally. The key question is, did Blunt go on spying after 1945 when Britain elected a much more egalitarian government who started the process of "levelling up" ? (more successful than recent Tory administrations have managed!). It's easy to be condemning, decades after the event, but you only have to read Orwell's diaries of the 1930s to realise what a class-ridden society this was and how worried we were about a coming war. Would the monarchy high-tail it to Canada or some safe haven? Would the big landowners and the press barons throw in their lot with Hitler if he were to invade? Mosley and his people would almost certainly have provided willing gauleiters for Hitler, turning in Jews, trade union leaders and dissidents of one sort or another. In 1940 even Churchill's wartime Tory/Labour cabinet were discussing whether we should try and do a deal with Germany.
Yes, well said. I by no means share Blunt’s politics but I came around to a similar view after reading a (critical) biography of Guy Burgess. The Cambridge 5(+?), like many other bright young people then and now, believed in international socialism as the answer to capitalism’s failings and the rise of fascism. They believed that sharing information with the Soviets would best further that cause. With the notable exception of Philby, they seem to have shared mostly diplomatic and political material, rather than military - they weren’t, for example, facilitating a Soviet attack on Britain. And this was before the Cold War when the Soviet Union was not yet an enemy, and before Stalin’s crimes were well known. I don’t condone the behaviour, but I no longer deplore it. As you say, their actions would have seemed very different at the time compared with how we view them in the wake of the Cold War, and I see nothing inconsistent or hypocritical in wanting to aid the progress of a communist neighbour while remaining in England.
Its sad therefore that the West did not view the Soviets as a bulwark until far too late...They should have before 1939 had seen that Hitler (after Munich was a far worse prospect then Stalin)and put pressure on the Poles to accept Stalin's proposed Military pact with Poland which they refused to do so and which the Poles also would not countenance..A total disaster for both the West and Poland...
@@kailashpatel1706 My parents used to tell me that everyone was so affected by the horror of the trenches in the first world war that no-one wanted to see it happen again and as a result the west too easily appeased Hitler instead of stopping German re-armament in the 1930s. It was of course the wrong policy. We drove the Germans into a corner with reparations after WW1 and failed to see that this would result in a backlash, in this case Hitler. We got it wrong on each occasion.
ISTR that when Spitting Image started a few years later, they absolutely ripped both him and the Royals a new arsehole by making him the Royal Family’s main servant.
William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was hanged despite having Irish nationality. He formally, and publicly, became a naturalised German citizen in 1940. He too, chose to put his political conscience first over his loyalty to country. But he was open and honest about his decision to do so. None of this mattered. The British hanged him as a traitor anyway. Blunt led a privileged and entitled life as an aristocrat of the British establishment. Like Philby, Burgess, MacLean and Cairncross, who were all shirt lifters, they betrayed the nation that had given them everything. None of them paid for their treachery. The British establishment really do look after their own.
Agreed whatever you may have thought of his politics Joyce was not a traitor - agent provocateur certainly. He would have been executed in both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in a heartbeat but we like to credit ourselves with upholding the rule of law and even justice otherwise we are just as bad as those regimes
@@trevorhare9393 At that time in history, being a shirt lifter, made them very vulnerable to being blackmailed by the Soviets. Shirt lifters also knew who their fellow Shirt lifters were, thus making it much easier to recruit them into their cause. So, their sexual preferences, along with their political leanings, were very relevant. You are right about one thing, Kim Philby was not a shirt lifter.
Blunt had information about treason in the royal family’s relations with Nazis, he apparently used to throw in references when interrogated with HM Private Secretary telling them that they weren’t to dig further
It's important to remember the world these people grew up in. In a post 1929 stock market crash world which showed capitalism at its worst and faced with a Facist Nazi threat, they decided to aid the UK's socialist/communist allies in WW2 (Russia). This doesn't excuse the treachery but it does give one an idea as to where it came from.
@@jeffhawkins1293 And often they're very condescending to and sentimental about the working class, even George Orwell. Real life is more complex than political theories.
The greatest betrayal was committed by King George V, who refused asylum to his cousin, the Russian Tsar Nicholas, and his family. They were all killed by the Bolsheviks.
Kim Philby to Guy Burgess: 'Watch your step! Otherwise you might get into trouble.' Aahhhh! I love it! It's the equivalent of: 'You may want to watch what you're doing in the quad or you may be sent down!' (... from Cambridge or to Dartmoor.) Capital!
Got away with it because he was the Queen's blue eye boy. Any ordinary bloke would be banged up on a 20 year prison sentence, he gets a free pass to the Buck palace. This country stinks.
@@paulsara9694 a version without evidence remains just a version. There is an opinion that Britain was involved in the murder of the Russian Emperor Pavel in order to destroy the alliance between Russia and France.
Blunt was a true polymath. A prominent magisterial figure, who did so much in establishing the Warburg Institute. A true friend to historians such as Dame Francis Yates, Edgar Wind, et al. Great man.
What he did at 5 during the War was what should have been done anyway officially. The Soviet Union was a British ally. It was only not given due to the churlishness of Churchill who I think had an inferiority complex mainly because of his American mother, which is why he came up with such childish ideas as Gallipoli and the Norway raid. He was annoyed because the Soviets had bugged his hotel room in Moscow ('Bolshevik baboonery'). It was like when the Anglophobe Adm. King as CNO, USN refused to pass on perfectly good Enigma SIGINT to the U.S. merchant marine and civil authorities because he hated England, causing tremendous loss of life and shipping on the eastern seaboard of the United States because the merchant ships were lit up in silhouette by blazing lights from American cities and consequently easy targets for German U-boat wolf packs. Puerile obdurance causing loss of Allied lives.
We now know that a lot of what Blunt says here is untrue. He was a casual and consummate liar. George Young's critical comments at the end are interesting, although not themselves free of evasion and deception.
@ginskimpivot753 Actually he would have been more likely to be a member of the Conservative Friends of Russia, a pro-Putin, pro-Russia group which only disbanded after Putins illegal invasion of Ukraine. Not that Russia is too bothered as they still have Johnsons pal, Evgeny Lebedev, sitting in the House of Lords.
The fact that he was not hanged or imprisoned shows the cultural indifference to his activities; that Britain was still deeply confused about Socialism.
He was a horrible condescending self entitled snob who betrayed his country. Horrible accent. Horrible man. He should have been incarcerated for decades.
Big buddy of QE2 and her circle. What you would expect really : these people always put their own needs and have no sense of loyalty to friend or family
Really good work at the ITN Archive. And the transition from video to 16mm was super slick. Great stuff
All non digital film especially analogue tape for recording was infinitely better than soulless digital. ❤
What an opening! When news was serious and sober unlike today.
Thanks for this. An American with an interest in Cold War history.
Kim Phillby they still watch his videos today how to lie
Translation tips:
No = yes
Yes = no
Definitely no = Most certainly yes
Don't know = Can't lie to you but yes.
Privileged and entitled in every sense.
That privilege is the key here, probably. Here is a man that on a critical level saw this work mostly as a game, in an entirely self-centered way. This is why it is so dangerous to recruit diplomatic and intelligence staff entirely from the upper classes.
It’s that very same lefty ‘progressivist’ thinking that led him to betray his country.
Try not to focus on his accent …it’s not the driver for anything
@@indiakhetriyou're missing the point. Working class socialists went to prison in Britain. He got off Scott free, based on his lineage.
Well George Blake who certainly wasn't born privileged got 45 years when convicted as a spy.The privileged class have always enjoyed immunity and believe me it will be forever thus.
ex ww2 MI5 officer Tomas Harris died in a mysterious car crash in early 1964 and he was close friends with Kim Philby...there has always been a question mark...
Wrong. He wrote The Hannibal Lector series in the 80s
@ pretty sure that’s “Thomas harris” different guy mate…Tomas Harris was an art dealer and worked for mi5 during ww2…he was Agent Garbo’s handler and worked with him to deceive the Germans.
@@Venmaylove pretty sure that was Thomas Harris the author not Tomas Harris the art dealer/mi5 agent
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Harris
Thanks from Germany🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
He was even lying in this interview, there was a fifth man in the spy ring. John Cairncross, a civil servant.
What about Rothchild?
The fifth man was Victor Rothschild
@@Smudgeroon74 He wasn't, even the KGB said so after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was Cairncross.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rothschild,_3rd_Baron_Rothschild#Cold_War,_Shell_and_Think_Tank
As for the idea that four gays were best mates and there was never any sexual relationship between them is slim to none.
BS
all up each other like a daisy chain.
Burgess was gay, as was Blunt, but Philby was straight. MacLean was bisexual. Cairncross dunno.
@@RebeccaOre handy checklist, cuts thru the gossip.
What a ridiculous statement. Do heterosexual people have sex with all their Friends? .
Blunt, Philby, Burgess, MacLean and Cairncross, The Cambridge Five as they became known, all enjoyed privileged backgrounds and educated at Cambridge. None ever truly paid for their crimes. Now compare them to Geoffrey Prime who was sentenced to 35 years for espionage in 1982. Prime left state education with one O level in languages. The class system thrives in UK.
Prime's espionage was far greater in scope and effects. He was also a child molester.
Communism has infected all the western academic institutions and societies.
It has played the western civilisation like a flute and the mass demonstrations, movements and disregard for the rule of law that we see in the western world these days are a direct result of communist subversion polices of the 1980s coming to fruition now.
What's your point?
Relieving one's conscience by admitting to spying is one indulgence, betraying one's country with the likelihood of affecting the deaths of many others is another, greater sin.
This silly old queen was given the privilege of a top Cambridge education, handsome salaries thereafter, and access to the finest estates of the land. Also put in high trust to the people of Great Britain, including royalty.
He chose to betray it all for his "conscience", yet now expects us to take his word seriously.
The anti gay language isn’t necessary but otherwise , I agree
Betrayal by a toff appears different to betrayal by a commoner. He relates his betrayal as if it’s some innocuous act. If this had been a commoner, someone from the ethnic minority there would have been a greater uproar. The establishment always covers itself
Ethnic minority may have been a get out of jail free card in 2024, just as being an aristo was 100 years ago.
@@hugolindum7728oh shut your rubbish mate. You live in an alternate world of right wing reactionary conspiracy
John Vassall , who spied for Russia after a compromise for seven years, was sentenced to 18 years (was a model prisoner, cooperated with the authorities, got out on parole in ten years). George Blake got 42 years but escaped after two or three years. Neither had gone to the posh schools or came from connected families. Blake was only British because his father, an Egyptian Jew, was granted British citizenship for fighting on the British side in WWI.
@@hugolindum7728 Total rubbish
@@hugolindum7728maybe in your inbred gammon dreams
Saw this traitor's coffin and big entourage in Roehampton cemetary the same day my father was buried there.
Must have been someone else? He was buried in Putney.
Nothing to do with his conscience, probably more to do with the Soviets having information in relation to his sexuality, easily blackmailed in those days.
If I were homosexual and had been threatened with exposure by Russian agents, I wouldn't have sold out my country, just to avoid opprobrium, disgrace or humiliation. Most decent people wouldn't because betraying your own country is one of the worst and evil crimes that it is possible to commit.
Nobody held Blunt's mouth open and forced him to.... well, I don't need to go into detail. If he'd have just read his bible more frequently, he might have found the answers to the turmoil that went on in his depraved mind. Once, I nearly had an affair with my best friend's wife. I read the bible and was able to convince myself that to betray a friend was evil and I desisted. It was a tough decision but dignity prevailed. Blunt could have read the passages on homosexuality in the bible. Instead, he didn't and spied for a foreign country instead.
Blunt was a lousy, stinking, disgusting, degenerate, cheat and a traitor. I was brought up in a poor household and went to a government state school. I'm a thousand times more of a gentleman than fancy-talking Blunt ever was. Thanks to the bible, thanks to good teachers, thanks to a father and mother who taught me morality. (And thanks, most of all, to me not giving in to my urges at the drop of a hat.
These über privileged rich snobs never *lost* their moral compass. They probably never had a concept of decency in the first place.
It wouldnt take a Russian master spy to figure out he was gay mate, its obvious.
You could see by the reaction on his face when the Interviewer asked that question. That's exactly what happened. In fact, that's what still happens to this day -- as per the Epstein business in the US.
He is lying through his teeth. Examine his language. Devious. I can’t watch anymore as his deceit makes me feel uncomfortable. I would not trust him as far as I can spit. When one hides the truth, plays a double game it still leaks out in your energy field, “vibe” as well as your language which you can never hide as your unconscious will always reveal the truth through language. To quote Hamlet” though murder hath no tongue it speaks with most miraculous organ” . The same with lies.
Sir,evey MI5&6 agents/officers all lies,do you genuinely believe what you are told?!come off it
Traitor pure and simple.
A Traitor? 😂 doubt it. He’s a good man. Uk is a shithole 😂
Interesting how Trolls take an interest in this traitor. They have never abandoned soviet way
@@TheFrewah Your very delusional unfortunately. 🟥
@@TheFrewahso are they trolls or not?
@@undercoverbrother67 Oh there was a response from one who was defending soviet. Now it’s gone.
The term 'traitor' is peculiar, because it only applies to enemies. When a traitor works for us, he stops being a traitor and becomes a kind of hero. It doesn't matter whether he is guided by his conscience or by personal interest. If he works for us, it can only be for good reasons.
He should have spent ten years in prison like any normal person would have.
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He had full immunity
Wrong. Life in prison. End of story.
I just listened to a podcast that said he was probably responsible for the Germans having the plans to Market Garden, leading to the deaths of thousands of Allied servicemen, and this is what may have led him to tell the Soviets he was quitting espionage (but a talk with his handler sorted him out and he continued).
There is no evidence that they worked for the Germans.
We still have the son of a KGB officer in the Lords in the U.K put in there by a former PM who went to his home in Italy, got hammered and potentially spewed state secrets without a security detail there.
Can I know his name please ? Thank You.
@@sebastianvella8992 do a search on the following.
Ex-KGB lieutenant-colonel Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev.
@@sebastianvella8992He is referring to Evgeny Lebedev
@@RobertBurke-tq9zu thanks.
@@sebastianvella8992And he's referring to Boris Johnson when he was Foreign Secretary in Theresa May's government. MI6 deemed the Foreign Secretary a security risk. And then the security risk became Prime Minister and suppressed the Russia Report. Just a few years ago.
Wow, that was a proper news presentation.
Self importance. Unshakable, despite some technical, local difficulties.
Speaks of loyalty. He wouldn’t know its meaning.
He should of been introduced to the Headman's AXE!
E tutti gli uomini che sono morti per colpa sua? Non una parola.
there's a Thatcher HOC speech on the Blunt affair here on YT, well worth a listen
Sir John Gielgud, in the underrated 1986 thriller "The Whistleblower", provides us with a good take on this freak.
legendary. this is how toffs become comrades
About as convincing as randy Andy in his ill-fated interview. Jeezo.
Alastair Burnet's eyes were so close together... they were practically sitting on each other.
Энтони Блант - герой социалистического труда!
He was a great art historian...A pure genius, an erudite of the highest calibre.
And a traitor who sold his own to the soviets to be tortured and murdered.
A despicable man.
A great historian with a fatal naiveté.
And what does art historian count for when you betray your country and work for a monster like Stalin?
@@fatimateresa19 was he quare🤣🤣🤣🤣
shame he was a fucking traitor.
Hard to believe that an individual as temperamentally unsound as Burgess would instill confidence in anyone he was trying to recruit particularly someone as full of himself as Blunt.
Read Spy Catcher by Peter Wright. Blunt had a letter from Burgess as Burgess was dying. Unrequited passion can be more powerful than actually having an affair.
God Bless You Anthony Blunt
Blunt - an utterly despicable man.
My old headmaster Peter Blunt was his nephew
Many otherwise intelligent people were flying a flag for Soviet Russia before the war. We had huge unemployment in our own country and democracy seemed unable to do anything about it. It's understandable that some people were flirting with extremist solutions (Blunt and co on the left and Mosley and co on the right). With fascism on the march in Germany it must have seemed to many that Soviet Russia might be our only bulwark in any coming war. And for a short time between the end of the Nazi Soviet pact and the entry of America into the war that was indeed the case. Did Blunt know of Stalin's purges? If so he was no worse than Churchill and Eisenhower who must also have known about these things but chose to ignore them in order to grasp Uncle Joe to their bosoms as an ally. The key question is, did Blunt go on spying after 1945 when Britain elected a much more egalitarian government who started the process of "levelling up" ? (more successful than recent Tory administrations have managed!). It's easy to be condemning, decades after the event, but you only have to read Orwell's diaries of the 1930s to realise what a class-ridden society this was and how worried we were about a coming war. Would the monarchy high-tail it to Canada or some safe haven? Would the big landowners and the press barons throw in their lot with Hitler if he were to invade? Mosley and his people would almost certainly have provided willing gauleiters for Hitler, turning in Jews, trade union leaders and dissidents of one sort or another. In 1940 even Churchill's wartime Tory/Labour cabinet were discussing whether we should try and do a deal with Germany.
Yes, well said. I by no means share Blunt’s politics but I came around to a similar view after reading a (critical) biography of Guy Burgess. The Cambridge 5(+?), like many other bright young people then and now, believed in international socialism as the answer to capitalism’s failings and the rise of fascism. They believed that sharing information with the Soviets would best further that cause. With the notable exception of Philby, they seem to have shared mostly diplomatic and political material, rather than military - they weren’t, for example, facilitating a Soviet attack on Britain. And this was before the Cold War when the Soviet Union was not yet an enemy, and before Stalin’s crimes were well known. I don’t condone the behaviour, but I no longer deplore it. As you say, their actions would have seemed very different at the time compared with how we view them in the wake of the Cold War, and I see nothing inconsistent or hypocritical in wanting to aid the progress of a communist neighbour while remaining in England.
@@jamesnaughton5657far too sensible a comment, it'll never catch on.
@@jamesnaughton5657 any idea who the others were, he implies someone died around 1964 ?
Its sad therefore that the West did not view the Soviets as a bulwark until far too late...They should have before 1939 had seen that Hitler (after Munich was a far worse prospect then Stalin)and put pressure on the Poles to accept Stalin's proposed Military pact with Poland which they refused to do so and which the Poles also would not countenance..A total disaster for both the West and Poland...
@@kailashpatel1706 My parents used to tell me that everyone was so affected by the horror of the trenches in the first world war that no-one wanted to see it happen again and as a result the west too easily appeased Hitler instead of stopping German re-armament in the 1930s. It was of course the wrong policy. We drove the Germans into a corner with reparations after WW1 and failed to see that this would result in a backlash, in this case Hitler. We got it wrong on each occasion.
Notice the briefest flash of the Thames Television ident at the start, before the ITN logo appears?
'Тони' or Tony is what the NKVD used when referring to Anthony Blunt
ISTR that when Spitting Image started a few years later, they absolutely ripped both him and the Royals a new arsehole by making him the Royal Family’s main servant.
Off topic. But news at ten was well presented.
William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was hanged despite having Irish nationality.
He formally, and publicly, became a naturalised German citizen in 1940.
He too, chose to put his political conscience first over his loyalty to country.
But he was open and honest about his decision to do so.
None of this mattered.
The British hanged him as a traitor anyway.
Blunt led a privileged and entitled life as an aristocrat of the British establishment.
Like Philby, Burgess, MacLean and Cairncross, who were all shirt lifters, they betrayed the nation that had given them everything.
None of them paid for their treachery.
The British establishment really do look after their own.
Agreed whatever you may have thought of his politics Joyce was not a traitor - agent provocateur certainly. He would have been executed in both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in a heartbeat but we like to credit ourselves with upholding the rule of law and even justice otherwise we are just as bad as those regimes
William Joyce was Irish.
@@trevorhare9393
At that time in history, being a shirt lifter, made them very vulnerable to being blackmailed by the Soviets.
Shirt lifters also knew who their fellow Shirt lifters were, thus making it much easier to recruit them into their cause.
So, their sexual preferences, along with their political leanings, were very relevant.
You are right about one thing, Kim Philby was not a shirt lifter.
@@SteveCondron
Yes.
That is why I said "he was hanged despite having Irish nationality".
Blunt had information about treason in the royal family’s relations with Nazis, he apparently used to throw in references when interrogated with HM Private Secretary telling them that they weren’t to dig further
Good old Maggie exposed him the queenie didn’t want to
One thing I read suggested that Blunt had been promised both no trial and no publicity. Thatcher blew the second agreement.
She certainly did!
@@geoffbrown9054 Trust her to do what could be done.
Thatcher. War Criminal. Currently residing Somewhere Warm
@@albertmoss1 I not arguing about her record just Maggie was unwilling to let a traitor stay unpunished
Sandy Gall was a wonderful man
Interesting that he protected his friend Sir Roger Hollis by not admitting his role as a soviet agent in Mi5.
Because Hollis wasn’t a spy. Stop listening to Peter Wright.
Two tier then also
Always been.
It's important to remember the world these people grew up in. In a post 1929 stock market crash world which showed capitalism at its worst and faced with a Facist Nazi threat, they decided to aid the UK's socialist/communist allies in WW2 (Russia). This doesn't excuse the treachery but it does give one an idea as to where it came from.
It's always privileged people who become communist.
@@jeffhawkins1293 And often they're very condescending to and sentimental about the working class, even George Orwell. Real life is more complex than political theories.
The greatest betrayal was committed by King George V, who refused asylum to his cousin, the Russian Tsar Nicholas, and his family. They were all killed by the Bolsheviks.
Great guy
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson and the Lebedevs....
Stripped of his knighthood title only!! Why was he not thrown into prison for the rest of his days???
Kim Philby to Guy Burgess: 'Watch your step! Otherwise you might get into trouble.' Aahhhh! I love it! It's the equivalent of: 'You may want to watch what you're doing in the quad or you may be sent down!' (... from Cambridge or to Dartmoor.) Capital!
What a blunt!
Never trust a spy, any spy.
In today's time he would have been accompanied by his lawyer. He is incriminating himself throughout the interview.
He was promised immunity. Why should he care?
This aired one month after ITV returned from their 11 weeks off air due to strike action.
He still has chutney in the corner of his mouth.
Albert Pierrepont for you tony-pooh.
I just can’t understand why they couldn’t see how fascist Stalin’s regime was… ‘useful idiots’ indeed
It was worse than fascist. Bad news.
Got away with it because he was the Queen's blue eye boy. Any ordinary bloke would be banged up on a 20 year prison sentence, he gets a free pass to the Buck palace. This country stinks.
No, he got away because he had the goods on Edward VIII and other sensitive royal matters.
I think not.
Repulsive in his traitorous ways, but a true polymath intellectual. And what a voice - the perfection of English upper middle class intonation.
These clowns tipped off Stalin about Arnhem who passed it on to Hitler, so there was a Panzer regiment waiting
That’s interesting. Why would Stalin pass that to Hitler? I only ask.
Because he wanted to capture as much of Europe as he could. He had got the second front which took the pressure of him. Make any sense? @@HooDatDonDar
@@paulsara9694 a version without evidence remains just a version. There is an opinion that Britain was involved in the murder of the Russian Emperor Pavel in order to destroy the alliance between Russia and France.
@@HooDatDonDarbecause the poster above you has schizophrenia
All so smug, corrupt and sleazy.
The whole saga STILL MAKES ME SICK, EVEN AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!!!
Alright Brian, have a lie down.
This brings back memories!
No question about Poussin? :/
Blunt was a true polymath. A prominent magisterial figure, who did so much in establishing the Warburg Institute. A true friend to historians such as Dame Francis Yates, Edgar Wind, et al. Great man.
..Don't forget his contribution to the art of Claude Lorrain.
Literally even answer is a lie 😂
His denials about his relationship with Burgess seem a little humorous now in light of the evidence demonstrating otherwise.
Should have made him live his days out in Russia with Philby and Maclean and they could of all buggered each other.
Blunt was a hero to workers in every land.
Not to me he wasn't. Speak for yourself.
@ That's what I am, Mr. Yeltsin.
1:20 Even today the wicked justify their perversion with that same term: “anti fascism”
Horrible narcicist
Traitor may he rot in hell.
He wasn't a Russian spy, what he was was a traitor.
What made these people think something good would come from soviet. Present russia is as bad and now being sovietised.
Do you even know what a soviet is?
@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733soviet mindset I inow and it is something you should stay away from. Not abandoned in russia
@@TheFrewah a soviet is a council. You know like the ones who run Britain. The soviet United Kingdom.
@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Except they had no say just like the duma in russia. It’s just there to simulate a government.
@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733He may not be precise in his terminology but you really don't know what he means by a "Soviet mindset"?
What he did at 5 during the War was what should have been done anyway officially. The Soviet Union was a British ally. It was only not given due to the churlishness of Churchill who I think had an inferiority complex mainly because of his American mother, which is why he came up with such childish ideas as Gallipoli and the Norway raid. He was annoyed because the Soviets had bugged his hotel room in Moscow ('Bolshevik baboonery'). It was like when the Anglophobe Adm. King as CNO, USN refused to pass on perfectly good Enigma SIGINT to the U.S. merchant marine and civil authorities because he hated England, causing tremendous loss of life and shipping on the eastern seaboard of the United States because the merchant ships were lit up in silhouette by blazing lights from American cities and consequently easy targets for German U-boat wolf packs. Puerile obdurance causing loss of Allied lives.
Another one?
Why leading questions all the time?
We now know that a lot of what Blunt says here is untrue. He was a casual and consummate liar. George Young's critical comments at the end are interesting, although not themselves free of evasion and deception.
A disgusting traitor.
"His conscience", huh?
Revolting specimen.
Very nice 1:10.
He’s a liar and traitor!
Did he betray Operation Market Garden (Arnhem)?
A recent book claims he did.
He'd have made a great addition to Starmer's front bench.
@ginskimpivot753 Actually he would have been more likely to be a member of the Conservative Friends of Russia, a pro-Putin, pro-Russia group which only disbanded after Putins illegal invasion of Ukraine. Not that Russia is too bothered as they still have Johnsons pal, Evgeny Lebedev, sitting in the House of Lords.
Blunt was a tory.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson and the Lebedevs....
Shifty, or what?
Protected by the oligarchs, just like now.😊😊
Grrreat interview!
Ten minutes of NOTHING
Evil man!
The fact that he was not hanged or imprisoned shows the cultural indifference to his activities; that Britain was still deeply confused about Socialism.
No. It has more to do with the British Establishment protecting its own
'I didn't feel there was much of a threat of sincerity running through it' - you don't hear wonderful english like this nowadays.
He was a horrible condescending self entitled snob who betrayed his country. Horrible accent. Horrible man. He should have been incarcerated for decades.
what an utter load of BS and lies.
A traitorous snake
Liar liar pants on fire
Big buddy of QE2 and her circle. What you would expect really : these people always put their own needs and have no sense of loyalty to friend or family
How would you know ?
How would you know ?
This traitor should have been dealt with under Rule 303.
Mistake no.1: never look left to find your traitors.
He’s a good man. Did rightly to defend the CCCP🚩
The most retarded system known to man and you haven’t been able to abandon it
Not fully truthful.
A liar, plain and simple.