A Women who spied for the Soviets for years 25/9/20 and 9/3/22
1815 Napoleonic war the last time Switzerland saw war.
1919 Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg founded the German Communist Party KPD
1922 Walter Rathenau assassinated by ultra nationalist after signing a treaty with Russia.
1923 Sun Yatsen founding father of he Chinese Republic followed by Chiang Kai-shek who purged communists.
1924 There were 160 thousand Jews in Berlin roughly a third of Germany's Jewish population. Robert Rene Kuczynski was a distinguished demographic statistician. "Kuczynski rate" and had the biggest private library in Germany. They spoke English and French also and Karl Liebknecht ( Marxist)Max Liebermann , Walter Rathenau and Albert Einstein were amongst their friends. During WW1 he calculated Germany's nutritional requirements.
1926 Jeugen her brother after studying economics studied at the Brookings institute in Washington
The KPD led by Ernst Thalmann got direct funding from Moscow and had Die Rote Fahne (Red flag) newspaper
1926 Jozef Pilsudski the strong Polish leader died
1927 Ursula worked in the archive for Ullstein publishers, Germany's largest newspaper and book publisher. She went to the US for an adventure and taught German to the children of a Quaker family and saw the depression there
Henry Street Settlement NY founded by Lillian Wald . She became aware of issues of minority rights suffrage and racial integration
1929 Agnes Smedley "Daughter of Earth, Mike Gold "Jews without money"
1930 Married Rudolf Hamburger and he got a job in British Shanghai as the municipal architect.They went there via the Trans Siberian Railway. Shanghai was the largest city in China. Germany lost her territory in China at the end of WW1. Foreigners needed no passport and it was the spy capital of Asia. They had a son Michael.
Richard Sorge (fictional James Bond by Ian Fleming) He sent German and Japanese secrets to Moscow. While Rudi ws at work their home was used as a Party meeting place.
Noulens was Yakov Rudnik a Ukrainian Jew, was arrested as a spy in China
1932 Japan invaded the Chinese sections of Shanghai
1935 Reich Citizen Law< Jews could no longer be German citizens.
1933 Hitler took power this was 14 years after the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II
1937 Sino -Soviet non aggression pact.Later Vassily Chukov was now senior advisor to Chaing Kai-shek.
Nazi agents in Britian were all caught thanks to Blechley Park.but there were plenty of Soviet spies including the Cambridge 5
1938 -1938 Stalinist Purges many of the people she worked with were killed.
1938 Chaimberlan's Munich Agreement removed the last hope of anti Fascist Union in Europe so General Franco had a free hand in Spain to deal with the Republicans.
1938 Nov 1938 Kristallnacht
1938- 1940 17thousand Jewsih refugees fled to Shanghai on the Lloyd Triestino Line.
1939 August 23rd When Russia and Germany signed a pact a plan was almost ready to assassinate Hitler. Now all her work was put on hold.
1939 November Russian invaded Finland the Winter war till Moscow Peace March 1940
1939 1st Sept Germany attacked Poland 3rd Sept Britain declared war.
1941 August Britain and the Soviets invaded Persia to secure the oil fields.
August Churchill gave the go ahead to do nuclear weapon research.
1942 Dec Pearl Harbour
1942 German army surrounded at Stalingrad
1943August Quebec Agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt to make an atom bomb.
Klaus Fucks was a leading Atomic scientist who fled Germany and handed over all nuclear information to Ursula to send to the Soviets .He was one of 17 British scientists to go to the US to work on the Manhattan project and handed in all information he got there.
130,000 people worked on the Manhattan Project
Millicent Bagot was the spy catcher portrayed as Connie Sachs in John le Carre novels and she worked under Filby
Lieutenant Joseph Gould American Army recruited spies to be dropped into Germany from anti Nazis exiles living in England these were put into POW camps in England to learn from German prisoners about current Germany, They discovered that many German soldiers still believed that Hitler would win the war.
The OSS did not pay attention to the fact that they were communist workers connected via a "cutout " or intermediary to Ursula. They dropped near Berlin and reported that 2/3rds of German industry and power there was still working The newest US communication technology got to the Russian and as well as all they reported back
1945 2nd May the German forces surrendered to the Russian General Vasily Chuikov. 1941 He had been the Soviet defense attache in Chunking and had helped get Rudi out of Chinese prison there
1948 Johann Patra needed help getting out of China as all foreigners were fleeing, he had married a German woman and adopted a child. As an anti Nazi German felt he was entitled to repatriation. The GRU had severed contact with him, and he ended up in South America.
1949 the USSR first secret nuclear test in Kazakhstan.
1950 Klaus Fuchs was arrested and mentioned that he dropped off messages to a lady in Banbury. The Americans had been decoding the Venona traffic and Ursula took her 2 younger children and flew to Berlin where her brother Jugens lived. She refused to do more spy work Len and her son Michael soon followed. She became a writer of propaganda
1977 She wrote her autobiography called "Sonya's Report", the Stasi wanted her to censor her unconventional love life but she refused . At the age of 84 she was permitted to go to Britain to publicise her memoirs. MPs wanted her arrested but MI5 did not want an embarrassing trial
2000 Ursula Kuczynski died at the age of 93
#1961 Soviet Building of the Berlin Wall
#1968 Soviet crushed the Prague Spring
#1989 Fall of Berlin Wall
#2014 Russian invasion of Crimea
#2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Ursula read books by Lenin Luxemburg and radical novels by Jack London and Maxim Gorky. Her mother Bertha would not give her an academic education so she was sent to study typing and shorthand. Ursula was aware of the Weimar Republic's wealth of the small privileged and poverty and begging of the unemployed. She was also involved inthe Henry street settlement under the progressive Lilian Wald. She worked at Prosnits books where she met American communists
For an adventure she went to America where she worked teaching German to a Quaker family
The men in her life.
.Rudolf Hamburger did architectural modernism of the Bauhaus movement. Albert Speer (Hitlers architect)was at the same Berlin Technical University.
1930 Married Rudolf Hamburger and he got a job in British Shanghai as the municipal architect.They went there via the Trans Siberian Railway. Shanghai was the largest city in China. Germany lost her territory in China at the end of WW1. Foreigners needed no passport and it was the spy capital of Asia. Rudi could not get work in Germany when he qualified as an architect. He answered and add that told him if he got to Shanghai there was a job for him. They went via Siberia and Manchuria. Ursula was bored being the wife of a colonial . They had a son Michael.
When she heard that Agnes Smedley was in Shanghai met up with her, and this brought her into the circle of espionage.
1929 Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley '' She was a troubled person and advised to write a story of her thoughts which ended up being a successful novel. Shanghai was the largest city in China and the birthplace of the CCP Chinese Comunist party.
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`Richard Sorge code name Ramsey (fictional James Bond by Ian Fleming)He recruited Ursula. The spies were run by the Centre who used them and when they were no longer of value cast them aside. He sent German and Japanese secrets to Moscow. While Rudi was at work their home was used as a Party meeting place. Ursula had a relationship with him and he took her for rides on the motorbike. He was the one whose friendship she never got over and always had a photo of him on her wall. He survived the purge of the Russian army as he refused to leave Japan and go to |Moscow at the time.
He informed the Soviets that Japan had not intention of invading Siberia. He was one of a few that informed Germany were about invade Russia a report rejected by Stalin. His wife was arrested as a German spy and died in a Gulag. He was hanged in Japan in 1944 where he was spying on German and Japanese secrets. While Rudi was at work the home was used as a secret meeting place for Soviet spies under Sorge
Ursula and Agnes went out touring and brought back reports of what Japan was doing. She was invited to come to Moscow for a 6 month course to be a spy, here you made friends but never ever knew their names. Meanwhile she took Michael to the Hamburger parents who were living in Czechoslovakia..After 6 months she fetched Michael and travelled back to Shanghai by ship. On the ship she made out that she just met up with her partner Johann Patra.
was a seaman who could speak a number of languages
She told Rudi she was leaving him and took Michael to Mukdan (Shenyang today) with Johan Patra They got a cabin in the garden of a German aristocrat who worked at the German Embassy next door. He was a Nazi who dealt in arms with Japanese Military in Manchuria. and was extremely talkative. And promised he would look after Mischa if something happened to her. She and Johan Patra had a daughter Nina together, Rudi was prepared to be the father if she was alone.
They also worked in Harbin, which was full of White Russians that they had no sympathy for. They saw famine and peasants abanding their children especially baby girls
The Soviets considered Japanese expansion in China a threat. Meanwhile with the Stalinist purges you could never ask what happened to your previous boss.
1942 Rudolf worked in Tehran as an architect building the Persian Finance Ministry building. Russia and Britain had troops there so that the Germans could not get the oil fields. He was inept as a spy and asked for information and was arrested by the British and sent to the Soviets who decided he was a double agent and put him in a Gulag for 10years.
. Otto, Rudi's brother, a refugee in Shanghai got a message that Rudi was at Bai Mansion prison. He contacted Johann Patra. After 9 month captivity he was put on a plane to Russia.
1935 most of Kuczynski's family had fled from Germany to Britain and she visited them there, then went off to Warsaw 1936 with Rudi and her nanny Olga Moth. Patra was pleased that Rudi was back with her for his child Nina. In Warsaw Rudi found work as an architect. Ursula went to work in Danzig(Gdansk) for 3 months a "Free City" but run by German Nazi's, They set to work to sabatage the German Uboats.
1937 she received the highest award The order of the Red Banner given to her personally by Mikhail Kalenin. (Kalingrad named after him) He was the one who signed the execution of the 22000 Polish officers in the Katyn massacre.
Alexander Allan Foote 1905 -1956 a Spanish Civil War Veteran. He had got a girl pregnant and decided to take his chances in war in Spain. Ursula sent him to Munich where he had lessons in German and learned about the BMW factory and aircraft engines used by the luftwaffe. When Ursula fled from Switzerland he took her role. He was at a restaurant which was Hitlers favorite. here he saw the Milford sister and Oswald Mosely.. They had plans to assassinate Hitle but once the Ribontroff treaty signed this was called off. He later went to West Berlin and informed on the Soviet spies but never about Ursula.to M16
Len Beuton 1914 to 1997 a Spanish Civil War Veteran It was well known that Russia used these veterans of the International Brigade as a spuy recruiting ground. He had been a fighter in the Republic Army during the Spanish Civil war and one of the few survivors of his brigade he was fearless Ursula was in Switzerland where she worked and trained Len Beurton. He was in Munich studying German and frequented the restaurant that Hitler did and worked on a plan to assassinate Hiltler till the Ribbentrop Pact when this was called off he finally crossed into Switzerland after war was declared.
She married Len and got a British passport. Himlers agents were combing Switzerland
to flee as she knew she was compromised. Olga Muth went into the British Embassy to tell them that Ursula was a spy as she could not go to England and wanted the baby who she had brought up. Ursula came came via Vichy and Spain to Portugal. She took a ship to Liverpool and got there just before the port was bombed. In Oxford she took a house in the Judge Neville Lazkis garden, a leader in the Jewish community.. Len gave the British embassy infomation about Nazi's and they gave him a false passport as he could otherwise not travel through Franco's Spain as he was a listed Republican fighters. Len and Ursula had a son Peter. Now she had 3 children each with different fathers. Ursula's 4 sisters each married Englishmen and .settled
Her brother Jeugen Cuxzynski also fled to East Germany.
Alexander Rado was a Hungarian Jew
Melita Norwood
Milicent Bagot was the one who realized that Usula was a spy but never succeeded in getting evidence; perhaps Filby managed to discourage this investigation. As a woman working under men while Usula appeared to be a housewife with children.
Milicent Bagot was the one who realized that Usula was a spy but never succeeded in getting evidence; perhaps Filby managed to discourage this investigation. As a woman working under men while Usula appeared to be a housewife with children.
1950 When Karl Fuchs was arrested she knew she had to leave England
The Verone traffic was now decoded so all the spies were in danger but she had already left for East Germany. She was one of the few who told the authorities she was no longer working in espionage. Most Russian spies could not retire and usually died in disgrace.
She became a writer under the name Ruth Werner.
She loved Rudi for his kindness, Petra for his revolutionary strength and Len for his long sweet comradeship.
Agent Sonya,Moscow's most daring Wartime Spy by Ben Mc Intyre 2020 335pg
A Women who spied for the Soviets for years 25/9/20
Time line and history part of the story
1815 Napoleonic war the last time Switzerland saw war.
1919 Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg founded the German Communist Party KPD
1922 Walter Rathenau assassinated by ultra nationalist after signing a treaty with Russia.
1923 Sun Yatsen founding father of he Chinese Republic followed by Chiang Kai-shek who purged communists.
1924 There were 160 thousand Jews in Berlin roughly a third of Germany's Jewish population. Robert Rene Kuczynski was a distinguished demographic statistician. "Kuczynski rate" and had the biggest private library in Germany. They spoke English and French also and Karl Liebknecht ( Marxist)Max Liebermann , Walter Rathenau and Albert Einstein were amongst their friends. During WW1 he calculated Germany's nutritional requirements.
1926 Jeugen her brother after studying economics studied at the Brookings institute in Washington
The KPD led by Ernst Thalmann got direct funding from Moscow and had Die Rote Fahne (Red flag) newspaper
1926 Jozef Pilsudski the strong Polish leader died
1927 Ursula worked in the archive for Ullstein publishers, Germany's largest newspaper and book publisher. She went to the US for an adventure and taught German to the children of a Quaker family and saw the depression there.
Henry Street Settlement NY founded by Lillian Wald . She became aware of issues of minority rights suffrage and racial integration
1929 Agnes Smedley wrote"Daughter of Earth, Mike Gold "Jews without money"
1930 Married Rudolf Hamburger and he got a job in British Shanghai as the municipal architect.
Noulens was Yakov Rudnik a Ukrainian Jew, was arrested as a spy in China
1932 Japan invaded the Chinese sections of Shanghai
1935 Reich Citizen Law< Jews could no longer be German citizens.
1933 Hitler took power this was 14 years after the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II
1937 Sino -Soviet non aggression pact.Later Vassily Chukov was now senior advisor to Chaing Kai-shek.
1938 -1938 Stalinist Purges many of the people she worked with her were killed.
1938 Chaimberlan's Munich Agreement removed the last hope of anti Fascist Union in Europe so General Franco had a free hand in Spain to deal with the Republicans.
1938 Nov 1938 Kristallnacht
1938- 1940 17thousand Jewsih refugees fled to Shanghai on the Lloyd Triestino Line.
Nazi agents in Britian were all caught thanks to Blechley Park.but there were plenty of Soviet spies including the Cambridge 5
1939 August 23rd When Russia and Germany signed a pact a plan was almost ready to assassinate Hitler. Now all her work was put on hold.
1939 November Russian invaded Finland the Winter war till Moscow Peace March 1940
1939 1st Sept Germany attacked Poland 3rd Sept Britain declared war.
1941 August Britain and the Soviets invaded Persia to secure the oil fields.
August Churchill gave the go ahead to do nuclear weapon research.
1941 Zhukov had been the Soviet defense attache in Chunking and had helped get Rudi out of Chinese prison there
1942 Dec Pearl Harbour
1942 German army surrounded at Stalingrad
1943August Quebec Agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt to make an atom bomb.
1945 2nd May the German forces surrendered to the Russian General Vasily Zhuikov.
1949 the USSR first secret nuclear test in Kazakhstan.
1950 Klaus Fuchs was arrested, so Ursula knew she was exposed.
#1989 Fall of Berlin Wall
2000 Ursula Kuczynski died at the age of 93
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Ursula read books by Lenin Luxemburg and radical novels by Jack London and Maxim Gorky. Her mother Bertha would not give her an academic education so she was sent to study typing and shorthand. Ursula was aware of the Weimar Republic's wealth of the small privileged and poverty and begging of the unemployed. She was also involved inthe Henry street settlement under the progressive Lilian Wald. She worked at Prosnits books where she met American communists
For an adventure she went to America where she worked teaching German to a Quaker family
The men in her life.
.Rudolf Hamburger did architectural modernism of the Bauhaus movement. Albert Speer (Hitlers architect)was at the same Berlin Technical University.
They went there via the Trans Siberian Railway. Shanghai was the largest city in China. Germany lost her territory in China at the end of WW1. Foreigners needed no passport and it was the spy capital of Asia. They had a son Michael.
Richard Sorge (fictional James Bond by Ian Fleming) He sent German and Japanese secrets to Moscow. While Rudi ws at work their home was used as a Party meeting place.
1930 Married Rudolf Hamburger and he got a job in British Shanghai as the municipal architect.They went there via the Trans Siberian Railway. Shanghai was the largest city in China. Germany lost her territory in China at the end of WW1. Foreigners needed no passport and it was the spy capital of Asia. Rudi could not get work in Germany when he qualified as an architect. He answered and add that told him if he got to Shanghai there was a job for him. They went via Siberia and Manchuria. Ursula was bored being the wife of a colonial . They had a son Michael.
When she heard that Agnes Smedley was in Shanghai met up with her, and this brought her into the circle of espionage.
1929 Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley '' She was a troubled person and advised to write a story of her thoughts which ended up being a successful novel. Shanghai was the largest city in China and the birthplace of the CCP Chinese Comunist party.
.
`Richard Sorge code name Ramsey (fictional James Bond by Ian Fleming)He recruited Ursula. The spies were run by the Centre who used them and when they were no longer of value cast them aside. He sent German and Japanese secrets to Moscow. While Rudi was at work their home was used as a Party meeting place. Ursula had a relationship with him and he took her for rides on the motorbike. He was the one whose friendship she never got over and always had a photo of him on her wall. He survived the purge of the Russian army as he refused to leave Japan and go to |Moscow at the time.
He informed the Soviets that Japan had not intention of invading Siberia. He was one of a few that informed Germany were about invade Russia a report rejected by Stalin. His wife was arrested as a German spy and died in a Gulag. He was hanged in Japan in 1944 where he was spying on German and Japanese secrets. While Rudi was at work the home was used as a secret meeting place for Soviet spies under Sorge
Ursula and Agnes went out touring and brought back reports of what Japan was doing. She was invited to come to Moscow for a 6 month course to be a spy, here you made friends but never ever knew their names. Meanwhile she took Michael to the Hamburger parents who were living in Czechoslovakia..After 6 months she fetched Michael and travelled back to Shanghai by ship.
Johann Patra. On the ship she made out that she just met up with her partner was a seaman who could speak a number of languages
She told Rudi she was leaving him and took Michael to Mukdan (Shenyang today) with Johan Patra. They got a cabin in the garden of a German aristocrat who worked at the German Embassy next door. He was a Nazi who dealt in arms with Japanese Military in Manchuria. and was extremely talkative. And promised he would look after Mischa if something happened to her. She and Johan Patra had a daughter Nina together, Rudi was prepared to be the father if she was alone.
They also worked in Harbin, which was full of White Russians that they had no sympathy for. They saw famine and peasants abanding their children especially baby girls
The Soviets considered Japanese expansion in China a threat. Meanwhile with the Stalinist purges you could never ask what happened to your previous boss.
1942 Rudolf worked in Tehran as an architect building the Persian Finance Ministry building. Russia and Britain had troops there so that the Germans could not get the oil fields. He was inept as a spy and asked for information and was arrested by the British and sent to the Soviets who decided he was a double agent and put him in a Gulag for 10years.
. Otto, Rudi's brother, a refugee in Shanghai got a message that Rudi was at Bai Mansion prison. He contacted Johann Patra. After 9 month captivity he was put on a plane to Russia.
1935 most of Kuczynski's family had fled from Germany to Britain and she visited them there, then went off to Warsaw 1936 with Rudi and her nanny Olga Moth. Patra was pleased that Rudi was back with her for his child Nina. In Warsaw Rudi found work as an architect. Ursula went to work in Danzig(Gdansk) for 3 months a "Free City" but run by German Nazi's, They set to work to sabatage the German Uboats.
1937 she received the highest award The order of the Red Banner given to her personally by Mikhail Kalenin. (Kalingrad named after him) He was the one who signed the execution of the 22000 Polish officers in the Katyn massacre.
Alexander Allan Foote 1905 -1956 a Spanish Civil War Veteran. He had got a girl pregnant and decided to take his chances in war in Spain. Ursula sent him to Munich where he had lessons in German and learned about the BMW factory and aircraft engines used by the luftwaffe. When Ursula fled from Switzerland he took her role. He was at a restaurant which was Hitlers favorite. here he saw the Milford sister and Oswald Mosely.. They had plans to assassinate Hitle but once the Ribontroff treaty signed this was called off. He later went to West Berlin and informed on the Soviet spies but never about Ursula.to M16
Len Beuton 1914 to 1997 a Spanish Civil War Veteran It was well known that Russia used these veterans of the International Brigade as a spuy recruiting ground. He had been a fighter in the Republic Army during the Spanish Civil war and one of the few survivors of his brigade he was fearless Ursula was in Switzerland where she worked and trained Len Beurton. He was in Munich studying German and frequented the restaurant that Hitler did and worked on a plan to assassinate Hiltler till the Ribbentrop Pact when this was called off he finally crossed into Switzerland after war was declared.
She married Len and got a British passport. Himlers agents were combing Switzerland
to flee as she knew she was compromised. Olga Muth went into the British Embassy to tell them that Ursula was a spy as she could not go to England and wanted the baby who she had brought up. Ursula came came via Vichy and Spain to Portugal. She took a ship to Liverpool and got there just before the port was bombed. In Oxford she took a house in the Judge Neville Lazkis garden, a leader in the Jewish community.. Len gave the British embassy infomation about Nazi's and they gave him a false passport as he could otherwise not travel through Franco's Spain as he was a listed Republican fighters. Len and Ursula had a son Peter. Now she had 3 children each with different fathers. Ursula's 4 in sisters each married Englishmen and .settled in England.
Her brother Jeugen Cuxzynski also fled to East Germany.
Alexander Rado was a Hungarian Jew
Melita Norwood depicted as Red Joan in movie British women Soviet spy exposed in 1992 but not prosecuted
Milicent Bagot was the one who realized that Usula was a spy but never succeeded in getting evidence; perhaps Filby managed to discourage this investigation. As a woman working under men while Usula appeared to be a housewife with children.
Milicent Bagot was the one who realized that Usula was a spy but never succeeded in getting evidence; perhaps Filby managed to discourage this investigation. As a woman working under men while Usula appeared to be a housewife with children.
1948 Johann Patra needed help getting out of China as all foreigners were fleeing, he had married a German woman and adopted a child. As an anti Nazi German felt he was entitled to repatriation. The GRU had severed contact with him, and he ended up in South America.
1950 When Karl Fuchs was arrested she knew she had to leave England
1950 Klaus Fuchs was arrested and mentioned that he dropped off messages to a lady in Banbury. The Americans had been decoding the Venona traffic and Ursula took her 2 younger children and flew to Berlin where her brother Jugens lived. She refused to do more spy work Len and her son Michael soon followed. She became a writer of propaganda
Klaus Fucks was a leading Atomic scientist who fled Germany and handed over all nuclear information to Ursula to send to the Soviets .He was one of 17 British scientists to go to the US to work on the Manhattan project and handed in all information he got there.
130,000 people worked on the Manhattan Project
Millicent Bagot was the spy catcher portrayed as Connie Sachs in John le Carre novels and she worked under Filby
Lieutenant Joseph Gould American Army recruited spies to be dropped into Germany from anti Nazis exiles living in England these were put into POW camps in England to learn from German prisoners about current Germany, They discovered that many German soldiers still believed that Hitler would win the war.
The OSS did not pay attention to the fact that they were communist workers connected via a "cutout " or intermediary to Ursula. They dropped near Berlin and reported that 2/3rds of German industry and power there was still working The newest US communication technology got to the Russian and as well as all they reported back
1977 She wrote her autobiography called "Sonya's Report", the Stasi wanted her to censor her unconventional love life but she refused . At the age of 84 she was permitted to go to Britain to publicise her memoirs. MPs wanted her arrested but MI5 did not want an embarrassing trial
The Verone traffic was now decoded so all the spies were in danger but she had already left for East Germany. She was one of the few who told the authorities she was no longer working in espionage. Most Russian spies could not retire and usually died in disgrace.
She became a writer under the name Ruth Werner.
She loved Rudi for his kindness, Petra for his revolutionary strength and Len for his long sweet comradeship.
Richard Sorge offered glamour and peril. Johan Patra's seaman was jealous and competitive, while Len needed her for simple, strong and unquestioning love.
Richard Sorge offered glamour and peril. Johan Patra's seaman was jealous and competitive, while Len needed her for simple, strong and unquestioning love.
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