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The Spy in Tokyo Who Told Moscow Japan Would Not Attack (1941)

Credits and sources for this video.

Images (3)

• Cropped Stalin 1943
  U.S. Signal Corps photo.. Public domain.
• Richard Sorge
  Author unknown. Public domain.
• Zhukov-LIFE-1944-1945 cropped
  Grigory Vayl. Public domain.

Films (1)

• Why We Fight 5 – The Battle of Russia (1943)
  "Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia" (1943), Frank Capra — US War Department / US National Archives (RG 111), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Sources (3)

• E. Ziemke and M. Bauer, "Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East", ch. III (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1987)
• Wikipedia (en), "Richard Sorge"
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sorge
• Georgy Zhukov, memoirs

Notes

Richard Sorge, his reports and the move of Soviet divisions from the east: E. Ziemke and M. Bauer, "Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East", ch. III (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1987); Wikipedia, "Richard Sorge". The quoted sentence of 14 September is an abridged English translation, with "Japan" added in brackets; the dated telegram is not shown as a facsimile. The telephone call between Stalin and Zhukov (around 19 November) and Zhukov's answer come from Zhukov's later memoirs, "by his later account"; Ziemke and Bauer only write that he "asked". The figure of eight armies and about 800,000 men is the count at the start of the counter-offensive (5-6 December), from a single source. The weight of Sorge's report in Stalin's decision to move divisions is debated: no number of divisions is given here.

The embassy front, the field telephone and the army markers are drawings, not photographs. The map is Natural Earth (public domain), turned a quarter turn (Moscow at the top, Tokyo at the bottom), with today's borders except the Soviet Union (merged); the markers are schematic and only Moscow, Tokyo and Japan are named. Education only.