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Richard Sorge (Russian: Рихард Густавович Зорге, romanized: Rikhard Gustavovich Zorge; 4 October 1895 – 7 November 1944) was a German-born Russian journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the ...
Daniel Finn. One man put a stop to Hitler’s march across Europe: not Stalin, Churchill, or Roosevelt, but a German Communist called Richard Sorge. Sorge was a real-life spy whose exploits surpassed any fictional creation, and one of the twentieth century’s great heroes. German Communist Richard Sorge, who spent nearly a decade in Tokyo ...
Mar 6, 2019 · When Richard Sorge – reputedly the greatest spy who ever lived – was executed by the Japanese on 7 November 1944 his last words were: “The Red Army!”, “The International Communist Party!” and “The Soviet Communist Party!”, all delivered in fluent Japanese to his captors. Sorge was bound hand and foot, the noose already set ...
Jul 30, 2010 · The seductive spy Richard Sorge, a German in Japan, paved Stalin's path to victory. R ichard Sorge had just returned to Tokyo on June 22, 1941, when he heard the report, being shouted by newsboys in the street, that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union. Sorge, a prominent German journalist, notorious womanizer, and heavy drinker, had earlier ...
Apr 20, 2019 · An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent. By Owen Matthews. Bloomsbury; 448 pages; $30 and £25. W ITH ITS clash of grand ideologies and sweeping geopolitical upheavals, the 20th ...
Aug 17, 2024 · Richard Sorge’s legacy is a testament to the power of individual agency in shaping historical events. His life and work continue to be studied as an example of exceptional courage, intelligence, and dedication to a cause, reminding us that in the intricate web of history, even the actions of a single person can have profound and lasting consequences.
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Mar 14, 2019 · An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent by Owen Matthews reviewed. Interviewed on the Today program on March 7, a former executive of the gigantic Chinese tech firm Huawei admitted: ‘It is the nature of humanity to spy, to conduct espionage.’. A gold-plated incarnation of this impulse is the tall, craggy-faced German ...
