Richard Sorge was a military intelligence officer of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. He worked as an undercover German journalist in Nazi Germany as well as the Empire of Japan. Codenamed as ‘Ramsay’, he was quite effective prior to ‘World War II’ and was also successful in creating an espionage network in Tokyo during the war. One of his most significant acts of espionage was furnishing information to the Soviet Union regarding an attack planned by Adolf Hitler. He conveyed to the Soviet Union during September 1941 that Japan was not planning an attack on the Soviets. This helped the Soviets to relocate their divisions from Far East to the Western Front to combat Nazi Germany during the crucial ‘Battle of Moscow’. He was imprisoned in Japan and after repudiation by the USSR and denial by ‘Abwehr’, a German military intelligence, as their agent, he faced torture, trial and was finally hanged in November 1944. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, saw a French film, ‘Who are you, Mr Sorge?’ in 1963 and verified the story of Sorge with the ‘KGB’. Thereafter in 1964, after a gap of two decades, Sorge was posthumously conferred ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’.