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George Blake

George Blake Biography

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George Blake, an individual of an unknown profession, was born on November 11, 1922.

George Blake, an individual of an unknown profession, was born on November 11, 1922.

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“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb poles and groups of men, workless, watching in silence the bitter passage of the vessel.”

Unemployed Great Depression 1930s Clydeside Shipbuilding

Book:The Shipbuilders

Source: The Shipbuilders

“The lorries thunder through mile upon mile of farmland, indeed, but... it is obviously related to an urban economy... Dereliction is the word... The stigmata of neglect litter the highway {A80] almost all the way from Glasgow to Stirling... let the intelligent traveller consider as he passes through them the nature and provenance of Millerston, Mollinsburn, Cumbernauld and Dennyloanhead. It is impossible to traverse such communities without seeing that something rather horrible once happened to Scotland, something from which it has never recovered.”

Scotland Industrialisation 1934 Central Belt Cumbernauld Dennyloanhead Dereliction Millerston Mollinsburn

Book:The Heart of Scotland

Source: The Heart of Scotland

“Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.”

Heart Soul Country Home Social Environment Tradition Evolve Heart And Soul Social Environment

Author:George Blake

“I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.”

International Backgrounds Kgb

Author:George Blake

“As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.”

Trying Courses Tasks Finished Agents Korea Provinces Kgb Maritime

Author:George Blake

“Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.”

People Feels Made Country Fighting Superiors Ashamed Belonging Defenseless Overpowering Kgb

Author:George Blake

“It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.”

World Want Country Nations Standards Unions Soviet Capitalist Other Countries Soviet Union Adopted High Standards Kgb

Author:George Blake

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Born: November 11, 1922
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Quotes: 7

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