Nu de Helden ster van Mielke te koop staat vraag ik me af, hoeveel en welke buitenlanders droegen de titel Held van de Sovjet Unie?
In de DDR weet ik dus alleen van Mielke en Erich Honecker,
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In the years of the Great Patriotic War over 11,500 Soviet people of more than 100 nationalities became Heroes of the Soviet Union. Besides, a number of citizens of other countries were also awarded the Gold Star Medal for heroic feats performed in the struggle against Nazism. The first foreign citizen to receive the highest Soviet distinction (posthumously) was Otakar Jarosh, an officer of a Czechoslovak Army unit stationed in the USSR. Besides him, the Gold Star Medal was conferred for heroic deeds performed in the struggle against Nazism on another four servicemen of the Czechoslovak Army, three servicemen of the Polish Army, four airmen from the French Normandie-Neman Fighter Regiment, which fought as a unit of the Soviet Armed Forces, and Bulgarian General Vladimir Stoyanov-Zayimov, who was shot to death by Nazi henchmen in 1942. The Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union was posthumously awarded to Captain of the Guards Ruben Ibarruri, commander of a machine- gun company, the son of the ardent Spanish Communist Dolores Ibarruri. The gallant German patriot and antifascist Fritz Schmenkel, who fought against the Nazis in a Soviet partisan detachment and gave his life for the homeland of the October Revolution, was also made Hero of the Soviet Union.
) draagt die bij de medailles horen. Geeft toch een beetje idee van de hoeveelheid medailles.



Roel Rijks schreef:Bedankt voor de foto, in het Nederlands zegt met Spange.

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