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

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.

Unbelievably based

Fuck yeah lady

:waow-based:

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.

Hero of the Revolution right there.

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

May she be an inspiration forever

Will the state execute her like the Americans did?

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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.

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.