This video is entirely revised and re-edited. I have covered George Blake's story on my channel before, but I have now completely re-written and updated the script, got rid of the AI voice (you're stuck with yours truly from now on!), and found new images and visuals. Please enjoy!
Bravo. Very impressed with the increased production quality. No Hollywood movie footage. No facecams. Appropriate stock footage. Well researched. Well narrated.
I didn't notice this quote before watching this for a 2nd time. "To betray, you first have to belong" "I never belonged" This hits closer to home than you might know. Excellent update to an already excellent first outing.
Excellent! I have been looking forward to this ever since you first spoke about updating the AI videos with your voice. I'm very impressed with the extra effort you put in in completely revamping the presentation of the story. Your channel continues to impress me day after day. You are going to go so far!
Thank you for redoing this one - much prefer your voice over the AI narration! One of my favourite channel and can’t wait to see where you go! I think Kim Philby would be a great one to do at some point. The head of MI6’s Soviet branch being a soviet spy gives me flashbacks to the FBI mole who investigated himself.
@PhilipThompson absolutely must cover the Cambridge 5. Read much about them, the damages done both by the ring and the suspicions of all in both 5 and 6 as a result, the near paralysis of Brutish intelligence as well as the damages done to US-UK relations. Fascinating subject.
A brilliant documentary Philip. Well done all who took part in it's production. For the good and the not so good of it, what an adventurous and long life against all the odds George Blake led. I cant help but admire him for it, despite the negatives. And well done from me too going out to the dudes who sprang him from the 'Scrubs'. Job's a good'un lads, aye!
This documentary version is packed with more information! Congratulations Phillip. It's so telling how Blake and many others who embraced communism, never hesitated to abandon loved ones!
Your video made my morning much better, thank you. I'm not mad at anyone for having hope in Communism in the beginning, unfortunately it's super easy to corrupt. I'm glad Blake reunited with his children and found new love. I respect his loyaly to an ideal. I also prefer your voice over AI, you have a nice voice!
Your articulation is admirably clear and precise. If you go on to examine the Cambridge ring, please have a close look at Nathan Rothschild who is often overlooked. He had a certain commonality with George Blake.
My favorite double agent, he is an unselfish guy who made sure to bring equilibrium between communism and capitalism power struggle while sacrificing everything in his life including his family. My all-time favorite quote by him. "To betray one has to belong, I belong to no one"- George Blake
@@angrydachshund Capitalism appeals to the worst in us, providing moral cover for our greed. The only way to be taking side on the issue is to be depraved. I have no side in this issue...when one side has unopposable power, world will become Nagasaki/Hiroshima in hours.
@@JapanAlex01 Capitalism is a production contest. It tends to award social status to whomever can create the most wealth. Those who expect to lose that contest will prefer Communism instead, even though it makes everyone poor since it fails to reward production.
Im pretty sure the South Korean genocide of 'suspected' communists had something to do with Blakes demoralisation, not just the bombing campaign alone.
Highly recommend the tv series “A Spy Among Friends” it revolves around George’s old pal Kim whom also defected to Russia lol if I remember correctly the show dabbles a bit about George’s defection too. But nonetheless very entertaining for us Cold War espionage heads.
12:00 The period 1945-1950 from just before the Japanese capitulation & the start of the South-North war, has never been covered in its political & military aspects. The Japanese attempts at trying to establish a transitional gov. with the Koreans in both North and South & the military confrontations up to the divisional level, before June 25th are still largely ignored.
One character that seems to be forgotten is Captain Vyvyan Holt, Blake’s superior at the Embassy, & also taken prisoner. Why no measure had been taken to evacuate the British embassy, although Captain Holt had advised his compatriots not to go out of Seoul, “because he had heard things too” ? During the captivity period how such a converted Blake could have escaped Captain Holt ?
George Blake’s negative saga in some aspects is more fascinating than that of Philby. Both’s reasoning about the help in the West they received, for their traitorous activities against the West indicate that they were on the “right” side of the left-flowing river of history. & on the absence of any opposition in the sovs’ land, it’s because paradise had already been attained. If there’s ever any wonder 💭’bout the religion of people like Blake, then it’s history. Their religion.
The period 1945-1950 from just before the Japanese capitulation & the start of the South-North war, has never been covered in its political & military aspects. The Japanese attempts at trying to establish a transitional gov. with the Koreans in both North and South & the military confrontations up to the divisional level, are still largely ignored.
@@TheChronozoan I've watched a channel that for a long time I suspected had AI narration and I didn't approve, then recently in one of the videos I could hear the narrator had a cold. AI doesn't suffer from nasal congestion. I felt bad. For me AI narration brings up the possibility in my head that ChatGPT wrote the script as well. That's why I'm wary of it. It's probably unfair on my part.
@MakerInMotion I think it's a very complex issue. I've seen a number of content creators use it to help with art or maps or, of course, voicing. And that was great for them, because they were very small and unable to afford a human artist. Yet personally, I am mostly against it because AI takes away from the jobs of many many people. I guess a better way to put it is that it is good in the individualist perspective, but for all of Team Humanity, it is I think a net loss for the artistic community. Machine learning has and will do so many cool and beneficial things for our scientific community. And then of course there's the dangers of AI in our politics, with bad actors using machine learning to machine simulated speeches or talks by various public figures. To wrap this up, I think that largely AI/machine learning is ultimately a tool and it's employment is a reflection of the human using it.
It's quite clear, it's not love of Pushkin or Russian literature that turned the British spies to the USSR, but horror of what the poor were subjected to, whie they lived a life of privilege. That was why they didn't think they were traitors, but committed to a higher principle. You don't have to accept their reason to see its validity for them.
@@PhilipThompson CIA documents reveal that citizens of the USSR had access to more calories than Americans at the time (on average), and the USSR grew rapidly during the Great Depression, while millions of Westerners fell into despair.
@@JapanAlex01Did the 3.9 million Ukrainians that died in the Holodomor due to starvation have access to more calories? How many Americans died during of starvation during the whole Cold War? What CIA documents are you referring too?
@JapanAlex01 Which citizens had all those calories? Are you unfamiliar with the Holodomor genocide? The intentional starvation of millions of citizens so that preferred people could live more easily? Your comment tells me that either your education on this time period is woefully inadequate, or you're a shill for Putin and Russia. If it's the latter case, that is such a lame and weak thing to be.
The OP's name says a lot. Conz = conservative. Moleman means he is obviously a paid troll, and is too arrogant to bother hiding it. A Trumpist and a puppet of Putin.
At least, belack received appreciated from Russian...he died in full of dignity...what about some Middle East traitors of their's countries..when they settled in Britain 🇬🇧 or USA 🇺🇸 ...they disappeared beneath drug or gambling ediction, bankruptcy suicided, their unknown corpses explored inside Garbage 🗑 containers like Iraqi pilot ( Nabil Aurffa )
Unbelievably based. The guy saw first-hand how evil Western capitalism is for humanity, saw the value in moving humanity forward via the erosion of the master-slave relationship, and did what he could for the furtherance of our species. What a guy. 😎
@@JapanAlex01 Would you like to explain what you mean by the master-slave relationship? It just sounds like you’re butchering the Hegelian conception of the Master-slave dialectic.
The only people that think communism is a great form of government are people that have never lived under a communist regime. It's usually praised by white leftist while they are typing on their Mac, listening to music on their iPhone and drinking their "coffee" at Starbucks. They would be the members of the KGB arresting people in the middle of the night for criticizing the government.
20:45 😂 Wrong again! They were NOT tapping into KGB lines, it was GRU. The KGB didnt have a dilemma because they were at odds with the GRU at the time. Lol so you just read off Wikipedia? I can recommend a few books on the complete intelligence war for you, you always get at least a few details wrong reach video man.
People like you are so pathetic 😂 talking as if you are a living encyclopaedia on any spy story in history. How the hell would you know that he makes multiple mistakes per video unless you have unmatched knowledge on this rather fringe subject that most people don’t know anything about. Weirdo, stop trying to act smarter than you are
This video is entirely revised and re-edited. I have covered George Blake's story on my channel before, but I have now completely re-written and updated the script, got rid of the AI voice (you're stuck with yours truly from now on!), and found new images and visuals. Please enjoy!
i much prefer the other guy
@@mikehunt545WTF? Some people are never satisfied!
Thank you for this👍🏻
Pp
Great!
“Unfortunately, many of the men Blake betrayed could not invite him for a tea party because they were dead.” Absolutely killed me 💀
Bravo. Very impressed with the increased production quality. No Hollywood movie footage. No facecams. Appropriate stock footage. Well researched. Well narrated.
I didn't notice this quote before watching this for a 2nd time.
"To betray, you first have to belong"
"I never belonged"
This hits closer to home than you might know.
Excellent update to an already excellent first outing.
Excellent! I have been looking forward to this ever since you first spoke about updating the AI videos with your voice. I'm very impressed with the extra effort you put in in completely revamping the presentation of the story. Your channel continues to impress me day after day. You are going to go so far!
Thank you for redoing this one - much prefer your voice over the AI narration! One of my favourite channel and can’t wait to see where you go!
I think Kim Philby would be a great one to do at some point. The head of MI6’s Soviet branch being a soviet spy gives me flashbacks to the FBI mole who investigated himself.
Hanson?....
@@BnFGProductions Philby is on my to do list for sure. I can hardly have a spy channel and not cover him and the Cambridge 5.
@@PhilipThompsonThanx👍🏻
Didn't he already do that?
@PhilipThompson absolutely must cover the Cambridge 5. Read much about them, the damages done both by the ring and the suspicions of all in both 5 and 6 as a result, the near paralysis of Brutish intelligence as well as the damages done to US-UK relations. Fascinating subject.
You have a good voice for this, good step! Thanks for the effort.
You have no idea how happy I am to see this with your voice
@@LinksFan there will be more 'remastered' videos to follow.
@@PhilipThompson Excitedly waiting!
A brilliant documentary Philip.
Well done all who took part in it's production.
For the good and the not so good of it, what an adventurous and long life against all the odds George Blake led.
I cant help but admire him for it, despite the negatives.
And well done from me too going out to the dudes who sprang him from the 'Scrubs'.
Job's a good'un lads, aye!
Brilliant, Philip! Truly classy graphics as well.
This is absolutely beautiful! I am so happy I opted to watch this version
Anyone who thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the road is a fool.
Down south, the green grass is on top of the septic tank. :)
Idk, id definitely rather live in the U.S. than the U.S.S.R.
PT you say stuck with yours truly like it's a bad thing!!! 😂 ❤
This documentary version is packed with more information! Congratulations Phillip. It's so telling
how Blake and many others who embraced communism, never hesitated to abandon loved ones!
He didn't abandon his loved ones. Did we watch the same video? 😅 He did what he believed was right for all of humanity.
Excellent updated version.
Thanks for another interesting video!
Your video made my morning much better, thank you.
I'm not mad at anyone for having hope in Communism in the beginning, unfortunately it's super easy to corrupt. I'm glad Blake reunited with his children and found new love. I respect his loyaly to an ideal.
I also prefer your voice over AI, you have a nice voice!
So much better than the AI voice!! Keep up the good work!!!
so much respect for this comrade
His betrayal cost a lot of free men their lives.
No respect for commie traitors!
Awesome
29:29
The Profumo scandal was one year ahead.
What a fantastic video, thank you
Nice! Made my day go by fast
Very interesting my friend!
I like that Fred Perry jacket though.
Your articulation is admirably clear and precise.
If you go on to examine the Cambridge ring, please have a close look at Nathan Rothschild who is often overlooked. He had a certain commonality with George Blake.
My favorite double agent, he is an unselfish guy who made sure to bring equilibrium between communism and capitalism power struggle while sacrificing everything in his life including his family.
My all-time favorite quote by him.
"To betray one has to belong, I belong to no one"- George Blake
Communism appeals to the worst in us, providing moral cover for our vices. The only way to be neutral on the issue is to be depraved.
@@angrydachshund Capitalism appeals to the worst in us, providing moral cover for our greed. The only way to be taking side on the issue is to be depraved.
I have no side in this issue...when one side has unopposable power, world will become Nagasaki/Hiroshima in hours.
@@angrydachshundCapitalism is based on the master-slave relationship. 👀
@@JapanAlex01 someone doesn’t understand Marx (or Hegel for that matter).
@@JapanAlex01 Capitalism is a production contest. It tends to award social status to whomever can create the most wealth. Those who expect to lose that contest will prefer Communism instead, even though it makes everyone poor since it fails to reward production.
Im pretty sure the South Korean genocide of 'suspected' communists had something to do with Blakes demoralisation, not just the bombing campaign alone.
Highly recommend the tv series “A Spy Among Friends” it revolves around George’s old pal Kim whom also defected to Russia lol if I remember correctly the show dabbles a bit about George’s defection too. But nonetheless very entertaining for us Cold War espionage heads.
12:00
The period 1945-1950 from just before the Japanese capitulation & the start of the South-North war, has never been covered in its political &
military aspects.
The Japanese attempts at trying to establish a transitional
gov. with the Koreans in both North and South & the military
confrontations up to the divisional level, before June 25th are still largely ignored.
very interesting.
Really he did big damage!
One character that seems to be forgotten is Captain Vyvyan Holt, Blake’s superior at the Embassy, & also taken prisoner.
Why no measure had been taken
to evacuate the British embassy,
although Captain Holt had advised his compatriots not
to go out of Seoul, “because
he had heard things too” ?
During the captivity period
how such a converted Blake could have escaped Captain Holt ?
"The GRU is a lesser organization"- quotation attributed to Vladimir Kryuchkov, KGB Chairman.
Blake was hero
45:50
For people of Blake’s selfish mentality it’s always well worth the cost to satisfy his umitigated sense of self.
George Blake’s negative saga
in some aspects is more fascinating than that of Philby.
Both’s reasoning about the help in
the West they received, for their
traitorous activities against the West indicate that they were on the “right” side of the left-flowing river of history.
& on the absence of any opposition in the sovs’ land, it’s
because paradise had already
been attained.
If there’s ever any wonder 💭’bout the religion of people like Blake, then it’s history.
Their religion.
The period 1945-1950 from just before the Japanese capitulation & the start of the South-North war, has never been covered in its political &
military aspects.
The Japanese attempts at trying to establish a transitional
gov. with the Koreans in both North and South & the military
confrontations up to the divisional level, are still largely
ignored.
3:50
Most revealing ’bout the ideology’s morality.
?
Did you not already do a video on George Blake?
The original video had an AI voice. He redid using his own voice for narration.
It's a very contentious thing, but a lot of people skip over videos with AI narration
Personally I greatly prefer his voice to the AI narrator. It has so much more character and resonance
@@TheChronozoan I've watched a channel that for a long time I suspected had AI narration and I didn't approve, then recently in one of the videos I could hear the narrator had a cold. AI doesn't suffer from nasal congestion. I felt bad. For me AI narration brings up the possibility in my head that ChatGPT wrote the script as well. That's why I'm wary of it. It's probably unfair on my part.
@MakerInMotion I think it's a very complex issue. I've seen a number of content creators use it to help with art or maps or, of course, voicing. And that was great for them, because they were very small and unable to afford a human artist. Yet personally, I am mostly against it because AI takes away from the jobs of many many people.
I guess a better way to put it is that it is good in the individualist perspective, but for all of Team Humanity, it is I think a net loss for the artistic community. Machine learning has and will do so many cool and beneficial things for our scientific community.
And then of course there's the dangers of AI in our politics, with bad actors using machine learning to machine simulated speeches or talks by various public figures. To wrap this up, I think that largely AI/machine learning is ultimately a tool and it's employment is a reflection of the human using it.
Comrade Blake is a legendary hero
More like an infamous traitor to those whom he owed everything
He was a sociopath who clearly never lost a moments sleep over the deaths he caused.
@@GorgeDawes And obviously a narcissist.
It's quite clear, it's not love of Pushkin or Russian literature that turned the British spies to the USSR, but horror of what the poor were subjected to, whie they lived a life of privilege. That was why they didn't think they were traitors, but committed to a higher principle. You don't have to accept their reason to see its validity for them.
Were the poor in the USSR not subjected to far worse?
@@PhilipThompson CIA documents reveal that citizens of the USSR had access to more calories than Americans at the time (on average), and the USSR grew rapidly during the Great Depression, while millions of Westerners fell into despair.
@@JapanAlex01Did the 3.9 million Ukrainians that died in the Holodomor due to starvation have access to more calories? How many Americans died during of starvation during the whole Cold War? What CIA documents are you referring too?
@JapanAlex01 Which citizens had all those calories? Are you unfamiliar with the Holodomor genocide? The intentional starvation of millions of citizens so that preferred people could live more easily?
Your comment tells me that either your education on this time period is woefully inadequate, or you're a shill for Putin and Russia. If it's the latter case, that is such a lame and weak thing to be.
@@PhilipThompson Excellently concise. I hope you never stop being you.
The unnatural way the AI narrator pronounces A and THE. Distracting. The word 'aboard' was even pronounced with that strange, long A sound: A board.
@@FigaroHey it's not AI, I just have an accent.
This man is a true hero. Proper legend!
Uh what? He's a traitor to those whom he owed everything
The OP's name says a lot. Conz = conservative. Moleman means he is obviously a paid troll, and is too arrogant to bother hiding it. A Trumpist and a puppet of Putin.
"to others--he received an unjust prison sentence"--um, like all those whom Stalin et al executed as being enemies of the state
Menudo tio peyardo vebdedor de crecepelos. Se ke ve el baule de pies y la sinruda fakda a km. Perdin a thiusand miles
At least, belack received appreciated from Russian...he died in full of dignity...what about some Middle East traitors of their's countries..when they settled in Britain 🇬🇧 or USA 🇺🇸 ...they disappeared beneath drug or gambling ediction, bankruptcy suicided, their unknown corpses explored inside Garbage 🗑 containers like Iraqi pilot ( Nabil Aurffa )
Unbelievably based. The guy saw first-hand how evil Western capitalism is for humanity, saw the value in moving humanity forward via the erosion of the master-slave relationship, and did what he could for the furtherance of our species. What a guy. 😎
@@JapanAlex01 Would you like to explain what you mean by the master-slave relationship? It just sounds like you’re butchering the Hegelian conception of the Master-slave dialectic.
What load of equine scatology.
The only people that think communism is a great form of government are people that have never lived under a communist regime. It's usually praised by white leftist while they are typing on their Mac, listening to music on their iPhone and drinking their "coffee" at Starbucks. They would be the members of the KGB arresting people in the middle of the night for criticizing the government.
Lmao what? How brainwashed are you?
Yeah, and how did that work out for everyone? Moving humanity forward into a gulag.
Don't use ai voice brother
20:45 😂 Wrong again! They were NOT tapping into KGB lines, it was GRU. The KGB didnt have a dilemma because they were at odds with the GRU at the time. Lol so you just read off Wikipedia? I can recommend a few books on the complete intelligence war for you, you always get at least a few details wrong reach video man.
People like you are so pathetic 😂 talking as if you are a living encyclopaedia on any spy story in history. How the hell would you know that he makes multiple mistakes per video unless you have unmatched knowledge on this rather fringe subject that most people don’t know anything about.
Weirdo, stop trying to act smarter than you are
Awesome