On the eve of the arrival of the Chinese delegation to Russian Revolution anniversary celebrations a fresh attack was made on Stalin in the Soviet press. The occasion, so flimsy that it appears to be contrived, was on the awarding of the title hero of the Soviet Union to the spy Sorge. Reuter reported on’ Novermber 5Sths
"..eLast September Pravda paid tribute to Richard Sorge, who warned Stalin of German plans to attack the Soviet Union in 1941. Sorge, born of a German father and Russian mother in 1895, went to Japan in 1933 as a newspaper correspondent, and later became the Press attache in the German Embassy. With access to secret documents, he was able to warn Moscow of the German attack on Poland in 1939 and ‘later of German plans to invade Russia. 'Similar information arrived in Moscow by other routes, but Stalin paid no attention to it. How many thousands and millions of lives would have been saved if the information of Richard Sorge and others was not walled up ina safe. Alas we had to pay fully for the disbelief and negligence toward people, which were an indispensable part of the cult of the personality."