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 “The revolution that feeds the children gets my support.” energy
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unbelievably based
