Wish my grandparents were this cool.
I did what I did, not to make money, but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.
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"The revolution that feeds the children gets my support." energyHoly fuck she's so cool
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She didn't sell shit. She didn't accept anything in return for the information. The moral character and courage is inspirational.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_Norwood
Norwood is most famous for supplying the Soviet Union with state secrets concerning the development of atomic weapons from her job at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, where she worked for 40 years. Despite the high strategic value of the information she passed to the Soviets, she refused to accept any financial rewards for her work. She rejected the Soviets' offer of a pension, and argued that her disclosures of classified work helped to avoid the possibility of a third world war involving the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union.
o7 oh captain my captain
Unbelievably based
Fuck yeah lady
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I say this without exaggeration that the spies that relayed atomic secrets to the USSR are the people behind the scenes who prevented world annihilation.
In what sense?
The Americans had already used the bomb, twice, and even before that there wasn't really any doubt they would if they could. As history proved both before and after Nagasaki, the US was happy to cause any amount of death and destruction to fight the (mostly extremely paranoid and overstated) 'threat of communism'. And whatever you think about the idea of nuclear deterrence in the modern era, there's little to no doubt it was the only thing preventing the US using nukes against the USSR.
Presumably by allowing MAD to exist, instead of the ability to destroy the world being solely relegated to the only state who ever exercised said ability in a wartime capacity
The US was feining to drop a nuke in every country they invaded and failed to take over. The nukes in Japan were supposed to be a warning to the Soviets and the rest of the world of who runs the world order now, and the Soviets’ advancement in nuclear technology prevented that from happening, at least for a good while. The overt and covert barbarity shown by the US in subsequent operations showed that it had no qualms about adding more to the list of 200,000.
Hero of the Revolution right there.
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wow she was a spy for the soviets during ww2 even, old school
She died in 2005. The Wikipedia article on her says she never accepted payment, so she didn't "sell" them, she just handed over information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_Norwood
Even cooler.
May she be an inspiration forever
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So cool
Peoples' hero
Ursala Kutchinski, another badass soviet spy.
There's a surprising banger of a youtube documentary about her helping run the red orchestra, and eventually stealing US atomic secrets.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Apparently the novel and movie Red Joan are "loosely" based on her life. Are either of them any good?
What kind of a dweeb do you have to be to reveal that kinda stuff decades later? She's retired, the USSR is gone, nobody cares anymore. If I was an apparatchik who had this kinda evidence cross my desk, I'd just silently destroy it.
