He had an educated, and privileged background and certainly flirted with communism whilst at Cambridge. That's though hardly unusual. That some suggest he was a dedicated communist from that time forward is to forget he was both a spy and a journalist, so knew how to appear to be something, when he wasn't and then write convincingly about it.

I think he was a complicated and very confused man who thought he was helping his own country by helping another.

Some of the things he said and did during his life were strongly anti-communist, even neo-fascist. Who knows what he really believed in? I doubt he did himself. He got himself onto a slippery slope and slid to its final destination when his treachery was revealed. He didn't much like that final destination, but had no choice than to stick to the script by then. He missed the UK but could never come back.

His father, St John Filby, was a prominent member of the British Union of Fascists, and supporter of Oswald Mosley. So Kim was certainly close to fascism in his early life.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

ERM, In US Political News. Smollet guilty of 5 of the 6 charges. I hope they throw the book at him.
He could of easily of started a race war & could be a huge deterrent for those poor souls who genuinely have been racially attacked to report their crimes.
My guess is they'll give him a light sentence.

Pro USA & Israel

Surely not in Maga country?

He was only telling them what they want to hear.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Find out where Kanye was last night
Pmsl

She made her remarks in 2010, years after the fall of communism in Russia. Putin would have no reason to censor her. Your need to gainsay everything probably needs psychiatric analysis.

If you believe that, then I suppose you also think Putin tolerates criticism from opponents.

Putin wants the Russian people to believe in him and his version of events. That includes how he views the communist period and his role in it.

No-one speaks freely in Russia without any concern for the consequences, so usually say what people want to hear.

I have no special interest in this. Philby was a spy whose true beliefs and motivations probably went to the grave with him, if ever they really existed. Everything else is either speculation, or others covering themselves.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.