Establishment of the Order of the Red Star was held in 1930, according to the Decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.Appointment of a purely military award, it should be awarded only to those who distinguished themselves in the performance of important missions.Form proper pentagrams, emblems of the armed forces of the first proletarian state, and the color corresponding to the flag of the USSR, asking themselves a target orientation of the mark.
Blvukher - the first Commander of the Order of the Red Star.The hero of the Civil War, who later became a marshal.He did not get a reward for past achievements, and for the very specific actions to protect the CER subjected to attack by chaykanshistov.Order as feats of previous years were not protected from the repressions of the late 30s.Blucher was shot.
silver and enamel steel materials of which made the order.In the center is placed a composition consisting of figures of a Red Army soldier with a bayonet at the ready in a frame of round shape with the slogan "Workers of all countries, unite!", The emblem of the USSR and the inscription "hammer and sickle".Number of the Order of the Red Star applied to the back of the lower ring nut, through which it is attached.They are awarded not just individual characters, but also military units, ships and groups.
pre-war fate of the Order of the Red Star broadly consistent with its purpose.The conflict in the Lake Khasan, the Khalkhin-Gol, advances Soviet aircraft Ilyushin and Tupolev long record air travel, weapons development Degtyareva, Tokarev - all that proud country, and that more or less was associated with her defense, he noted.In the years 1930-1941 "stars" were awarded 21 500 people.
In 1942 there was a practice that has become an unwritten rule according to which the heroism associated with a fatal risk, presents the Order of the Red Star.Award-soldiers and officers wore it on his chest near the stripe for the seriously wounded.In terms of mass heroism Mint, which produced the government awards, working at full capacity, they were released more than 2.8 million copies.
Many knights of the Order of the Red Star learned about his award after years or even decades after the victory, the submission may be lost, such cases were rare.And in the sixties and seventies in the national newspapers published articles with catchy headlines "The award has found a hero!" "Red Star" was the order of the mass during the battle against Nazism.
Peacetime was calm not all, cases, enough to perform the feat.In the early sixties the doctor caught in the crash, assisted the injured passengers, although he had suffering from injuries sustained in the plane crash.Sappers cleared terrible field - a legacy of the war.Then there was Afghanistan.The problems solved by our soldiers in the country, were not simply those that fell on the share of their grandfathers.
After the demise of the USSR, the motto of the Order of the Red Star lost its relevance, the proletarians are no longer together.His place was taken by other awards, but the glory of the heroes who shed blood for the homeland, will not be forgotten ever.
