Established on 6 April1930, the Order of the Red Star was an Order (decoration) of the Soviet Union, given to Red Army and Navy personnel for "exceptional service in the cause of the Defense of the Soviet Union in both war and peace." Image File history File links Soviet Order of the Red Star This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links Soviet Order of the Red Star This work is copyrighted. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... An Order is a decoration, awarded by a government to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity. ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-КреÑÑ‚ÑŒÑнÑÐºÐ°Ñ ÐšÑ€Ð°ÑÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐÑ€Ð¼Ð¸Ñ - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ...
The Order consisted of an enamelled red pentagonal star, with a white metal image of a soldier bearing a rifle in the center. Below the soldier are the letters CCCP (USSR), and surrounding him is the Communist motto, "Proletariats of the World Unite." At the bottom of the star is the hammer and sickle. The Order was worn on the right chest without ribbon; on less formal occasions a ribbon bar, dark red with a silver central stripe, may be worn instead.
The Order of the Red Star was one of the most common military decorations during the Great Patriotic War, with almost 3 million awards made to more than 2 million individuals, many of whom being junior officers. The Order was also used as a long service award, until the establishment of the Irreproachable Service Medal in 1958. The Eastern Front1 was the theatre of combat between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
His next award, the Order of the RedStar of the BPSR 2nd Class, was given to him for gallantry displayed during the liquidation of the band headed by Astan Korkhul Bek on February 6, 1923.
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 1st Class No. 1 was given, by an ordinance of October 26, 1943, to Major-General A.I.Danilov, Commander of the 12th Army of the Third Ukrainian Front, for his part in the liberation of the city of Zaporozhye.
The Order of Victory was intended to be given to top-ranking commanders of the Red Army for a successful operation within the framework of one or several fronts resulting in a radical change of the situation in favour of the Soviet Armed Forces.
The five-pointed redstar (a pentagram without the inner pentagon) is a symbol of Communism and Socialism and represents the five fingers of the worker's hand, as well as the five continents (as traditionally counted).
In no particular order, they are: the youth (the future generations), the military (to protect and defend socialism), industrial workers (labourers), agricultural workers (peasantry), and the intelligentsia (to criticize and to improve the ideas and practices of life in order to attain communism).
The redstar is or was used on several flags and coats of arms of communist states, for example on the flag of former Yugoslavia, and in some separatist and socialist movements, like estelada flag in Catalan Countries.
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