Richard Sorge was born October 4, 1985 in the country of Azerbaijan during the time of its occupation by Imperial Russia. His father was German and his mother Russian, and eventually Sorge would end up traveling to Germany due to his father’s business. He might have ended up having a career as a soldier, but when fighting during World War I he suffered an accident which would put him out of active duty permanently. As a result he entered the field of teaching, though was fired and forced to flee back to Russia because of his communist beliefs. In Russia he would be recruited as a spy - a turn of fate that would determine the outcome of his life.
