Snowden's a modern-day Kim Philby, a traitor, the worst- of -the -worst. No one wants him because no one had anything to gain except Adolf Putin.
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The award of the
OBE was cancelled and annulled in 1965.
[63] Though Philby claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions and that he missed nothing about England except some friends,
Colman's mustard and
Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce,
[64] his wife
Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova later described Philby as "disappointed in many ways" by what he found in Moscow. "He saw people suffering too much," but he consoled himself by arguing that "the ideals were right but the way they were carried out was wrong. The fault lay with the people in charge."
[9] Pukhova said, "he was struck by disappointment, brought to tears. He said, 'Why do old people live so badly here? After all, they won the war.'"
[65] Philby drank heavily and suffered from loneliness and depression; according to Rufina, he had attempted suicide by slashing his wrists in the 1960s.
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