On the day of the USSR's October Revolution holiday in 1944, Stalin's greatest spies were hanged in Japan.
Renowned among espionage aficionados for supposedly forewarning Moscow of the exact date of Germany's planned surprise attack in 1941, Richard Sorge‘s work in the pregnant years leading up to World War II produced multiple intelligence coups and could lay claim to the uncommon distinction of having materially affected the course of the war.
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