 Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Sorge anonyanya kuzivikanwa nokuda kwebasa rake muJapan muna 1940 na 1941, apo akapa mashoko pamusoro pezano raAdolf Hitler rokurwisaSoviet Union. Ipapo, pakati paSeptember 1941, akazivisa vaSoviet kuti Japan yaisazorwisa Soviet Union munguva yemberi iri pedyo. Mwedzi mumwe gare gare, Sorge akasungwa muJapan nokuda kwoutsori. Akatambudzwa, akamanikidzwa kureurura, kutongwa uye kusungirirwa muna November 1944. Stalin akaramba kupindira nokuda kwake navaJapan. 