Richard Sorge's Last Day On Military Intelligence Officer Day, we remember the legendary hero of the Soviet Union who gave his life fighting fascism. How was Richard Sorges last day? As in many other cases, some myths related to this event (the last-minute decision to perform, hanging on a piano wire, etc.) appeared much later and do not stand up to close scrutiny. Others (for example, what George actually said before his death) prove not only durable but invincible. Let's try to understand where these came from. Read on the website of the Historian magazine. Source Richard Zorga was executed on November 7, 1944, the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution - certainly not by chance. remember