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Arrested in Tokyo Richard Sorge — a Soviet intelligence officer codenamed "Ramsay." He warned of Hitler's attack on the USSR as early as January 1941.
Born in 1895 in Azerbaijan. His great-uncle was a secretary. Karl marx.
He fought in World War I on the side of the German army. He was wounded several times, and once hung from barbed wire for three days.
It was only because of this war that I became a communist.
He studied in Berlin and earned a doctorate. He worked as a miner and participated in riots.
In 1924, after the ban of the German Communist Party, he moved to Moscow In 1929 he began working for Soviet intelligence: he returned to Germany, established connections with the Gestapo and joined the Nazi Party.
Lived in since 1933 Tokyo As a correspondent for leading German newspapers, he managed a network of 32 Soviet agents. He was a lover of women, parties, and motorcycles.
As press secretary to the German ambassador, he had access to top-secret documents. He warned Moscow of a German attack on the USSR with a few days' notice.
The German ambassador in Tokyo told me that war between Germany and the USSR was inevitable.
(encrypted message, June 20)
The war is delayed until the end of June
(encrypted message, June 21)
Implausible. The list of telegrams considered provocative
(Stalin's resolution on Sorge's ciphers)
In September 1941, "Ramsay" informed the Soviet leadership that Japan would not enter the war with the USSR for several more months. His advice was finally heeded, allowing 26 Siberian divisions to be redeployed to Moscow and the decisive battle to be won.
The Japanese intercepted Sorge's telegrams from 1937 onwards, but were unable to decipher them until the group's arrest.
They offered Stalin exchange prisoners, but he did not forgive the spy for his "betrayal": according to one version, during torture, Sorge revealed that he worked for the USSR.
He was executed in a Tokyo prison on November 7, 1944. In his last words, Sorge thanked his jailers for their kindness and praised the Comintern and the Red Army.
After he was taken down from the gallows, his heart continued to beat for another 8 minutes.
The USSR did not recognize Sorge as its agent for 20 years.
