Ignace Reiss
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Ignace Reiss – also known as "Ignace Poretsky," "Ignatz Reiss," "Ludwig," "Ludwik", "Hans Eberhardt," "Steff Brandt," Nathan Poreckij, and "Walter Scott " – was one of the "Great Illegals" or Soviet s
Reiss's brother died in the Polish–Soviet War in 1920 (here, Polish soldiers display captured Soviet battle flags after the Battle of Warsaw)
Reiss received the Order of the Red Banner (here, first variant, on red cloth (1918–1924))
The Great Purge by Joseph Stalin of Bolshevik revolutionaries led Reiss to defect (here, Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, all marked either for assassination or execution
Lausanne railway station, where Reiss met Schildbach, who led him to his death
Richard Sorge
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Richard Gustavovich Sorge was a German 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 Germa
Ignace Reiss
…Juliana of the Netherlands, "H. C. Pieck" (Henri Pieck), and most importantly "Henricus" or "Henryk Sneevliet" (Henk Sneevliet). During this same period, Richard Sorge brought Hede Massing to Reiss for training. In 1927, he returned briefly to Moscow, where he received the Order of the Red Banner. From 1929 to 1932…
Sorge before 1941
House in Sabunchu, Azerbaijan, in which Sorge lived from 1895 to 1898
Sorge (left) and chemist Erich Correns during World War I in 1915
Sorge in the hospital after his injury during the First World War