01-01-2022, 04:38 PM
I forgot to mention spies and other committers of treachery starting with Mata Hari, and going through the Rosenberg-Greenglass spy ring, the "Cambridge Five" (Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, and John Cairncross, and others such as Gunther Guillaume, John Walker, Aldrich Ames, and Andrew Hanssen.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.