SYND 21 11 79 FORMER RUSSIAN SPY ANTHONY BLUNT INTERVIEW

[@ElJoe-17]

Who's here after The Crown?

[@GeorgeKenmore]

Ha ha, I was trying to find the speech Thatcher gave in the House of Commons revealing Blunt's duplicity.

[@benchung1026]

Me

[@Watermillfilms]

Joseph Logue unfortunately there are no televised pmqs until the late 1980s when it was made official. There is a audio recording of the statement of the Falklands. But if researched there should be minutes recorded.

[@Watermillfilms]

Look what I’ve found. A recorded statement. I didn’t know that! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJ7Jknx5Z855aKM

[@ElJoe-17]

@@Watermillfilms Great find!

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

Bastard, trying to say none of his spying risked lives of our agents, as If he had a choice after he had started his treachery

[@kennytalabi3964]

That could easily have been you sitting there giving that interview, you spineless muppet. You think your tiny island had clean hands during that period, you small brained nit wit?

[@thepub245]

Agreed, its suspected he saw to it the plans for Operation Market Garden fell into the hands of the Germans, causing it to fail, to help prevent the western allies beating the Russians to Berlin. A lot of lives were subsequently lost because that operation failed.

[@Mike8981]

He stood by his principles - although I think he was wrong , he was fighting against fascism and thought communism had the answers.

[@ssrmy1782]

​​@@Mike8981 He was working for the NKVD, which is one of the most monstrous & bloody organisations that has ever existed. He was colluding with Soviets as the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was being signed by Stalin's USSR & Hitler's Germany.

[@neddyelkhoury3462]

Im here from the crown🙃

[@kathleenparker9297]

Me too

[@andyiswonderful]

He tries to exonerate himself by asserting that no one was harmed by the intelligence that he passed on to the Soviets. How on earth would he or anyone actually know that? He gave them many thousands of confidential documents. How would he know what they did with each and every single one of them? Also, how can anyone trust what he is telling us now? And why did he think he was a better judge of what confidential information the Soviets deserved to see versus the leaders of the British intelligence and military? He certainly was not privy to everything they knew. He was an arrogant and self-righteous posh boy from Cambridge.

[@luckyswine]

As a spy he knows an uncomplicated direct lie confidently delivered is always more believable.

[@adam_p99]

“I think” and “categorically” shouldn’t be in the same answer.

[@brightredtulip]

Regret is a most bitter pill.

[@Nazareeni]

Why the long face?

[@thesarcastic1915]

I too am here because of The Crown.

[@Martoto94]

Bastard was lucky enough not to have been shot. And I’m not even from the UK.

[@infantebenji]

Surprised the queen said that during the show.. is that the punishment for spies in UK or USA

[@johnneville403]

Well said.

[@howshecuttingbogman8999]

Where his parents unmarried?

[@chel3SEY]

Anyone know why this important interview is not available in full on KZbin?

[@-ShootTheGlass-]

No

[@crose7412]

@@-ShootTheGlass- Riveting response.

[@alexjewell2351]

It's Classified ;-)

[@BaliesStories]

I can recommend _The Mask of Treachery : Spies, Lies, Buggery and Betrayal: The First Documented Dossier on Anthony Blunt's Cambridge spy ring_ by John Costello. Fascinating book.

[@barrybarnes96]

Haven't read it but have read it's a sensational account with all that implies. A more serious treatment is Anthony Blunt: His Lives -by Miranda Carter.

[@billkgeorge]

How about Spycatcher by Peter Wright? Or Their Trade is Treachery by Chapman Pincher?

[@koaasst]

at least history hasnt been swept under the rug... yet. Learn history, its what and who we are, so that we may better ourselves.

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

EVERYTHING about the Royals is swept under the carpet, the abticated king who was a real Nazi and was going to come back to "rule us" If the Germans won the war, Princess Margret sleeping with pop stars, film stars and common thugs without a care what the Russians had on her, Mountbatten a terrible officer who lost thousands of lives because he was usless in command. Prince Harry,s real father and god knows what else

[@MaterialGirlW0rld]

Also here from The Crown x

[@kkdesignservices183]

He could very well have prolonged the war or even caused an Allied loss. By passing secrets learned through the Ultra program, Blunt could have made the Germans aware their codes had been broken.

[@Bacchusmbt]

Here from the Crown.

[@georgearaklitis2105]

From The Crown 👑

[@mandykhoo2473]

Amazing ......the sheer gall to turn up

[@crose7412]

If he hadn't you'd be complaining that he wouldn't face a public interview!

[@cliftt]

@@crose7412 Mandy misspelled "balls".

[@BanjoLuke1]

What a silly and delisional sausage he is! He says he had (and therefore betrayed) no information about British agents, as if that absolves him. Documents and information are classified partly/largely because of the source: If the information os revealed, the source may be deduced. If the source is a human asset (as it then often was), then revealing the intelligence identifies the source. For a man deeply and professionally involved over years within the intelligence community, ignorance of this is neither credible nor honourable. It is odd that interviewers and biographers never pushed him on this. 😮

[@SD-qw4xx]

Spying matters aside he was a first-rate art historian. A truly brilliant mind.

[@ricardocima]

Great Poussin specialist.

[@lynnemurphy114]

Beautiful Man

[@chrisalexander2729]

a traitor his art is sidebar. As for his anti fascism argument it's nonsense. He passed many secrets and undoubtedly put the lives of agents in danger. Like all traitors he was an accomplished liar . Personally I think the gallows would have been too good for him.

[@lynnemurphy114]

@@chrisalexander2729 How would you know

[@chrisalexander2729]

@@lynnemurphy114 How would I know what ? That he's a traitor ? From his own mouth.

[@thesceptic1018]

not one speck of genuine remorse

[@calum66]

Not true, he said he had bitter regrets and acknowledged himself to have been totally wrong.

[@calum66]

@@drcornelius8275 So if you follow 'the state' rather than your conscience you would have made a first rate Nazi or a Russian Communist during the purges . People like you absolutely cannot be trusted.

[@tayetrotman]

kal 61 I think that it’s safe to say the most reasonable place to be is in the middle. Yes, blind loyalty to the state is bad, but so is treason. The best place is not to betray your government, but to make clear when you disagree with it.

[@calum66]

@@tayetrotman If your government is busily constructing the Third Reich then treason is an absolute moral imperative .

[@tayetrotman]

@@calum66 Huh? I’d agree that if your govt is completely evil then morally, you should not support it. However, I wasn’t really commenting on any specific govt. I was just making a general statement that you should not be blindly loyal to the govt, but at the same time committing treason is generally not favourable because the vast majority of states can be reformed, and treason can cost lives as well as make it harder for a govt to do its proper job (i.e to govern and protect the citizens). Anthony Blunt cost the lives of British agents through his treason because he disagreed with the economic views of western society. He also undermined attempts by the British govt to learn what the USSR, which was actively attempting to undermine western countries and if possible incite a revolution that would lead to totalitarian communist rule. The UK was not the Third Reich.

[@andycapp5581]

He was a traitor and he accepted this, but such a waste of an interview as a result of the “journalistic” asking such cheap tabloid cartoon like questions.

[@alexshetsen7552]

On balance there were, and are, worse men.

[@stephenreeds3672]

And many better.

[@hayleyxyz]

yeah. honestly in the context of WW2, and the crimes of the Soviets were not really well known, it looks far worse today than it would have at the time.

[@kr9297]

Boris Johnson

[@Extra_050]

Anthony Blunt was, out of all the Cambridge Five, the one that was perhaps more anti-Fascist than pro-Communist. Certainly he was never a Stalinist. Kim Philby was something else, though and Burgess was a Socialist, at the very least.

[@henryfitch8710]

Remember for these chaps being a traitor was just a silly game. What ho, jolly good show old boy.

[@jonelson1983]

All of you here "....after 'The Crown', should have known about him already. (& btw, 'The Crown' isn't a documentary, it's an imagined account of how historical events may have took place.)

[@leonhughes134]

Bet you are great at parties …

[@jonelson1983]

Leon Hughes Happily you'll never find out. Any intelligent rebuttal regarding what I said, or are you sticking to a reheated insult we've all used loads of times?

[@leonhughes134]

@@jonelson1983 Take it as insult if you wish or maybe ponder a little self-reflection. A relatively obscure piece of espionage legacy from over 40 years ago is just that. Coming onto a thread where people are taking the effort to learn a piece of that history (going to the source material suggests an acceptance that the Crown is not as good as source material in itself) should be applauded, and not responded to with a snobbish and dismissive comment. Lighten up and who knows? you may get invited to a few more parties…

[@ceresbeith7828]

"taken"

[@getheroutofthetruck]

Elm House.

[@kevinwhelan9607]

He couldn't have been more Blunt.

[@thisismyname3928]

[@SocialStudiess]

He’s guilty of a liars habit. People who lie and steal. They may get away with their atrocities, yet they find ways of forgiving themselves by being bias. This is why there are laws, rules and bodies of governances throughout society. Lawlessness and anarchy has and will win many battles, but yet loses every war ✊🏾

[@theflamingone8729]

We may need to distinguish between lawless and unlawful, or immoral when we say lawlessness loses the wars. Countless generations have been born and died under oppressive regimes, this will not change.

[@Redwars889]

Traitor.

[@johndavies4919]

Thank God for Mr. Blunt

[@chuckstephens7992]

An incredible liar, who betrayed his friends and Country...

[@crose7412]

His country, not all of his friends.

[@antoniosilvestro2494]

He betrayed no one and served his nation in the armed forces and was true to his beliefs. Fascists are traitors but those wanting social justice are true patriots.

[@blackmore4]

@@antoniosilvestro2494 _"He betrayed no one "_ Blunt betrayed his country and admitted his guilt. Something which gave him "deep regret". Even he'd disagree with your preposterous comment.

[@JohnSmith-be1vl]

@@antoniosilvestro2494 Claiming that the Soviets and their moles were into "Social Justice" specifically is ridiculous, especially as the USSR was one of the most unfree and homophobic societies at the time.

[@RebeccaOre]

@@blackmore4 My understanding was he stopped after the end of WWII because he'd seen what Russia was like under Stalin. Were the Germans worse than the Soviets in the 1930s and 40s? Russia did most of the fighting in pushing them out of Russia, then Easter Europe and finally German. The US armed Russia and Britain. Blunt, unlike Kim Philby, decided he'd had enough by the end of WW II. The others also continued working for the Soviets, and ended up finding out what that culture was like. The 1930s through 1945 were desperate times.

[@dbdb7]

Here from blade on the feather

[@paulsara9694]

Should have been made to live out his last days in Russia.

[@paulmitford5189]

For a Cambridge educated intellectual, he rather stumbles and fumbles and dithers a lot. Poor chap; should have gone to a second rate government school instead.

[@joshuawaring4180]

Education doesn’t equate elocution, and vice-versa.

[@lynnemurphy114]

Wonderful art historian .....

[@whigparty6180]

Traitor.

[@westminsterwatcher5152]

Evil man!

[@lynnemurphy114]

O

[@ComradeHellas]

SIR ANTHONY BLUNT DID NOTHING WRONG!!

[@mariovasquez7672]

Comrade Hellas why you say that?

[@Skymaster.47]

@@mariovasquez7672 He's a dedicated communist.

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Spying is treason. Treason is nasty.

[@blackmore4]

Don't be even more stupid than you look.

[@evenshaug]

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[@JELWETA]

Watching the crown 👑 lol this is interesting

[@artemesaulkov2010]

Soviet hero!

[@jaisbrennan7696]

A traitor to his country.

[@artemesaulkov2010]

@@jaisbrennan7696 the soviet system worked for people. The british system is directed at benefiting the rich. He made the correct choice

[@jaisbrennan7696]

@@artemesaulkov2010 I'm sure you have contempt for Russians who betrayed their country. Stop having a double standard.

[@artemesaulkov2010]

@@jaisbrennan7696 i condemn them firstly, for betraying socialism

[@jaisbrennan7696]

@@artemesaulkov2010 Traitors are bad regardless of ideology.

[@KitoAkari1612]

He did the right thing.

[@patrickmccutcheon9361]

While obviously not in n their league, I wonder what Comrade Corbyn thinks about the Cambridge spies.

[@Skymaster.47]

​@thewrongscreening.2867 Cambridge Five intelligence during the Second World War proved decisive in the defeat of Germany on the Eastern Front. Philby and Caincross provided intelligence that allowed the Soviets to blunt German offensive at Kursk thereby turning the tide of the war. Cold War is another story.

[@Jeremy-y1t]

Britain was on the wrong side in both world wars.

[@oldtimer7635]

Brittish aristocracy at its finest.

[@eillomesorwolrab]

British citizen here with absolutely nothing but pure love for this man 💕💕💕

[@jaisbrennan7696]

Why would you love a traitor?

[@RebeccaOre]

@@lynnemurphy114 The Russians did the major fighting for their country and Eastern Europe. Massive casualties. The average sympathizer didn't know just how bad Stalin had been until after he was dead. And he was bad. But the Fascist were at least equally bad, if not worse for invading Central and Eastern Europe without provocation.

[@lynnemurphy114]

@@RebeccaOre Interesting

[@giritharjeevasuba5206]

🚩

[@lionelnashe6489]

A true british hero

[@stephenreeds3672]

Why?

[@IsabelMartinez-zr2eb]

He’s no hero, he’s a traitor to his country!

[@victorseger6044]

he was a traitor...

[@denisbegaj5970]

You have a ruusian accent

[@bquinn4533]

Indy2 in 22.