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Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs.
People executed for spying for the Soviet Union (1 C, 11 P) ... Pages in category "Executed spies" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total.
Pages in category "Soviet people executed for spying for the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ignace Reiss (1899 – 4 September 1937) – also known as "Ignace Poretsky," [1] "Ignatz Reiss," [2] "Ludwig," [3] "Ludwik", [1] "Hans Eberhardt," [4] "Steff Brandt," [5] Nathan Poreckij, [6] and "Walter Scott (an officer of the U.S. military intelligence)" [7] – was one of the "Great Illegals" or Soviet spies who worked in third party countries where they were not nationals in the late ...
The execution of General Tukhachevsky and the other seven generals severely weakened the Soviet military. This was first seen in the Red Army's disastrous performance in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940, in which the Soviet military suffered more than 100,000 dead or missing against a smaller and poorly-armed Finnish military. [ 7 ]
The NKVD soon focused attention on them and began investigating an alleged anti-Soviet conspiracy of German spies in the military, centered around the Air Force and linked to the conspiracies of 1937–1938. Suspects were transferred in early June from the custody of the Military Counterintelligence to the NKVD. Further arrests continued well ...
Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Орлов, born Leiba Leyzerovich Feldbin, later Lev Lazarevich Nikolsky, and in the US assuming the name of Igor Konstantinovich Berg; 21 August 1895 – 25 March 1973), was a colonel in the Soviet secret police and NKVD Rezident in the Second Spanish Republic.
Zoya quickly became the most revered Soviet heroine, and numerous Soviet public monuments to her were commissioned, in a top-down manner." [11] Numerous Soviet writers, artists, sculptors and poets dedicated their works to her. [16] In 1944, the film Zoya was made about her. [17]