His Soviet Awards include Hero of the Soviet Union—thus curiously making him a recipient of both the USSR’s and Nazi ...

Two of them received the award of the Hero of the Soviet Union . This is the highest honour a soldier can have. In proportion to population, Assyrians came second in Russia to have the medal as ...

Boris Gromov, a hero of the Soviet Union, Afghan war veteran and former Moscow Region governor, told TASS in an interview. "I’d like to stress that our troops are acting courageously and with ...