Editing Kim Philby (section)

==Death==
Philby died of [[heart failure]]{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} in Moscow on 11 May 1988. He was "buried with the honours of a KGB General."<ref name="pbs1">{{cite news |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/dece_philby.html |title=NOVA Online &#124; Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies &#124; Harold "Kim" Philby and the Cambridge Three }}</ref> His fourth wife told a reporter that Philby was "disillusioned with Communism by the end of his life, tortured by his failings, and drank himself to death."<ref name="ss1">{{cite news |url=https://spyscape.com/article/the-cambridge-spy-scandal-that-haunts-britain |title=The Cambridge Spy Scandal That Haunts Britain }}</ref>

===Posthumous awards===
The USSR posthumously awarded numerous Soviet medals to Philby:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kim-philby-moscow-square-double-agent-spy-kgb-mi6-cambridge-spy-ring-a8626476.html |title=Moscow square named after notorious British double agent Kim Philby |date=9 November 2018 |work=The Independent |access-date=1 January 2021 }}</ref>
* [[File:SU Order of Lenin ribbon.svg|45px]] [[Order of Lenin]]
* [[File:SU Order of the Red Banner ribbon.svg|45px]] [[Order of the Red Banner]]
* [[File:Ribbon of the Order of Friendship of Peoples.png|45px]] [[Order of Friendship of Peoples]]
* [[File:POL Order Wojny Ojczyźnianej 1kl BAR.svg|45px]] [[Order of the Great Patriotic War|Order of the Great Patriotic War (First class)]]
* [[File:40 years of victory rib.png|45px]] [[Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"]].