WI Sorge Listened To More

Richard Sorge was a Russian spy in Imperial Japan during WWII, and was arguably the most valuable spy throughout the war. There are even rumors that he fairly accurately predicted the date of Operation Barbarossa to Stalin, but Stalin didn't pay him any heed.

WI Sorge would have been listed to by Stalin more? Granted, his information was invaluable to the Soviets in the first place. But what if some of the information he passed on that turned out to be extremely valuable (with historical hindsight) was listened to? Could the USSR have come out of WWII in a better position, or maybe even survived Barbarossa better?
 

bard32

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There's a good book about Richard Sorge. It's called Target Tokyo. Richard
Sorge was Stalin's man in Imperial Japan. He was of German ancestry and was undercover as an attache` in the German Embassy. He was only captured
because he got sloppy.
 
Probs not. The Red Army was in a dire state prior to Barbarossa, but if Sorge found out perhaps in 1940 (did he?) and Stalin listened, then the Russians could really think about defence. WI he heard about Pearl Harbour plans?

It was never confirmed that he found out about the date for Barbarossa, but there are rumors IIRC. But I do think he heard about Pearl Harbor.
 
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