Remember history lads. During the Cold War, the USSR had not just businessmen in the US and UK. They had politicians, political party leaders, CEO’s, university professors, and more. The Soviets had an iron grip on leftwing politics in the western world, and pushed their agenda (covertly and openly) via these streams. These tactics never went away and are still practiced by the living love child of the USSR: China and its CCP.
The Communist Threat is as alive within our own countries as it has been for the last 75 years. Don’t turn a blind eye to that, study Cold War history and apply it to current events.