page_title: Walter Krivitsky
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Walter Krivitsky / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Erstürmung des Fort Siedlicka der Festung Przemysl durch k.u.k. Infanterie English: Storming Fort Siedlicka, the fortress of Przemysl by K.U.K. infantry
context_page_description: Walter Germanovich Krivitsky was a Soviet intelligence officer who revealed plans of signing the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact before he defected, weeks before the outbreak of World War II.
context_section_description: Walter Krivitsky was born on June 28, 1899, to Jewish parents as Samuel Ginsberg in Podwołoczyska, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Pidvolochysk, Ukraine), he adopted the name "Krivitsky," which was based on the Slavic root for "crooked, twisted". It was a revolutionary nom de guerre when he entered the Cheka, Bolshevik intelligence, in around 1917.
caption: The Siege of Przemyśl (1915) occurred while Krivitsky was in his teens
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