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[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 159 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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.

Big parenti "The revolution that feeds the children gets my support." energy

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 70 points 4 weeks ago

Holy fuck she's so cool waow-based

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 53 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)
[-] bortsampson@hexbear.net 120 points 4 weeks ago

She didn't sell shit. She didn't accept anything in return for the information. The moral character and courage is inspirational.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 55 points 4 weeks ago

Capitalists of course used the word "sell" because it sounds evil (except when they do it).

[-] niph@hexbear.net 55 points 4 weeks ago

They simply cannot conceive of any interaction that is not transactional in nature

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 67 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

erm-this-you

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.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 weeks ago

o7 oh captain my captain

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 63 points 4 weeks ago

Unbelievably based

order-of-lenin

[-] RiotDoll@hexbear.net 60 points 4 weeks ago

Fuck yeah lady

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 59 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 56 points 4 weeks ago

:waow-based:

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 55 points 4 weeks ago
[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 50 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago
[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 34 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] Chump@hexbear.net 25 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 22 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 49 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 47 points 4 weeks ago
[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 4 weeks ago

Hero of the Revolution right there.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 41 points 4 weeks ago
[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 40 points 4 weeks ago
[-] kristina@hexbear.net 35 points 4 weeks ago

wow she was a spy for the soviets during ww2 even, old school

[-] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 34 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 34 points 4 weeks ago
[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 32 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 weeks ago

Even cooler.

[-] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 31 points 4 weeks ago
[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 29 points 4 weeks ago

kim-salute

May she be an inspiration forever

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 25 points 4 weeks ago

Will the state execute her like the Americans did?

[-] udsudsud@lemm.ee 17 points 4 weeks ago

Pretty sure executing her a second time won't bother her v much.

[-] jaywalker@hexbear.net 31 points 4 weeks ago

She wasn't executed, she died in a hospital at 93 years old.

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 32 points 4 weeks ago

Nice to see a good person get to live out s full life.

[-] elpaso@hexbear.net 17 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, it's usually assholes

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 24 points 4 weeks ago

Hey 93 is a pretty good run. Be happy she got to live out her days free.

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 22 points 4 weeks ago

ESPIONAGE
ANGEL
MELITA

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 20 points 4 weeks ago
[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 19 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago
[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago

Peoples' hero

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 4 weeks ago

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[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Apparently the novel and movie Red Joan are "loosely" based on her life. Are either of them any good?

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 7 points 4 weeks ago

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.

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