This really is very good and the actor is spot on! Love him or hate him, 'Kim' Philby was no dilettante radical. It is too easy for us to view him in a teleological manner and judge him accordingly. He reacted, quite understandably, to what he saw going on around him in the World (he may well have had some personal epiphany, perhaps?) and, on being offered a chance to do 'something about it', he took it. He considered that the 'So-Called Elites', the privileged, exploitative and connected Bourgeoisie of which he was a member, had betrayed their own countries' people, and not just in the UK but everywhere. The 'Remedy' these same elites proposed - authoritarian, quasi-religious, violent, militaristic, aggressively nationalist and corporatist - was worse than the disease. To him, they, as a socio-economic class, had already committed the worst sorts of Treason. It was no 'phase' for him. He understood that Class Struggle was War, not a Battle. Wars involve loss, personal sacrifice, courage, cowardice, loyalties and betrayals. And, unlike a battle, War is ubiquitous and it is relentless. Whilst making allowances for human beings' tendency to rewrite their pasts in the light of subsequent developments, he seems to have genuinely had more awareness, rather than the soon-acquired experiential knowledge, of his 'hostage to fortune' status than most. That near-miss by a shell up near Teruel - I had relatives who fought/froze on that health destroying front and their sardonically humourous 'Sunny ffwcin Sbaen?!' memories spoke volumes! - which only he survived taught him the extremely sudden, totally capricious and very permanent nature of death in War. But, certainly to him and his world view, the casualties of capitalism in an ongoing forever-War between Classes were evidence enough and justified him in his decision to take a side. Just saying, like!
As far as I am aware, those elements of the former Soviet Union's archives (GRU, NKVD, NKGB, and the KGB) are still off-limits. And that was the case before this current unpleasantness in the Crimea/Ukraine.
Your narrator is incredible. I can see Philby as the actor talks
So much more details in this video than all of the other ones I’ve seen on TH-cam. Very well done, as I feel as if I’m in a room listening to Kim.
This really is very good and the actor is spot on!
Love him or hate him, 'Kim' Philby was no dilettante radical. It is too easy for us to view him in a teleological manner and judge him accordingly.
He reacted, quite understandably, to what he saw going on around him in the World (he may well have had some personal epiphany, perhaps?) and, on being offered a chance to do 'something about it', he took it.
He considered that the 'So-Called Elites', the privileged, exploitative and connected Bourgeoisie of which he was a member, had betrayed their own countries' people, and not just in the UK but everywhere.
The 'Remedy' these same elites proposed - authoritarian, quasi-religious, violent, militaristic, aggressively nationalist and corporatist - was worse than the disease.
To him, they, as a socio-economic class, had already committed the worst sorts of Treason.
It was no 'phase' for him. He understood that Class Struggle was War, not a Battle.
Wars involve loss, personal sacrifice, courage, cowardice, loyalties and betrayals. And, unlike a battle, War is ubiquitous and it is relentless.
Whilst making allowances for human beings' tendency to rewrite their pasts in the light of subsequent developments, he seems to have genuinely had more awareness, rather than the soon-acquired experiential knowledge, of his 'hostage to fortune' status than most.
That near-miss by a shell up near Teruel - I had relatives who fought/froze on that health destroying front and their sardonically humourous 'Sunny ffwcin Sbaen?!' memories spoke volumes! - which only he survived taught him the extremely sudden, totally capricious and very permanent nature of death in War.
But, certainly to him and his world view, the casualties of capitalism in an ongoing forever-War between Classes were evidence enough and justified him in his decision to take a side.
Just saying, like!
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I just recently watched Argyle. The voice and just the style of spy is vary similar
Well they're not any russian movies on philby or ames or anyone else in that crew soooo
As far as I am aware, those elements of the former Soviet Union's archives (GRU, NKVD, NKGB, and the KGB) are still off-limits.
And that was the case before this current unpleasantness in the Crimea/Ukraine.
" Grabbed some local nosh" !? He didn't say that in 1937
Verbatim from his journals I believe. ‘Nosh’ is fairly antiquated upper class slang. Would definitely have been frequently used in the 30s
@@Geezeroo curry/fish n chips /tacos whatever -common vernacular in its day =really get over it mate
No he had help and mi6 knoww but didn't do shit about it
"typically for a woman of that time...". Lol
woke gets everywhere, when is the time that its not typical for mothers to look after there children
A true British patriot a true British traitor simple facts
A true British patriot 😂😂