7/28/2023 0 Comments Red star order online![]() ![]() The ribbon of the Order of the red Star was a 24mm wide silk moiré dark red with a 5mm wide central silver stripe. The Order was attached to clothing by a threaded stud and screw attachment. The otherwise plain reverse bore the maker’s mark and the award serial number. Below the shield, the hammer and sickle also of oxydised silver. In the center of the obverse is an oxydised silver shield bearing the image of an erect soldier wearing an overcoat and carrying a rifle, along the shield’s entire circumference, a narrow band bearing the Communist motto in relief, «Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!» “ Workers of the world, unite!“, the band below the soldier bore the relief inscription “USSR” ( «СССР»). The Order of the Red Star is a red enameled 47mm to 50mm wide (depending on the variant) silver five pointed star. Its statute was only defined on May 1930, amended on, 19 June 1943, 26 February 1946, 15 October 1947, 16 December 1947 and by decree No 1803-X of 28 March 1980. The Order of the Red Star was also used as a long service award from 1944 to 1958 to mark fifteen years of service in the military, state security, or police. The Order was awarded for personal courage and bravery in battle, successful operations of military units and formations, outstanding service in ensuring public safety and the security of the State Border of the USSR, exemplary performance of special command tasks and other outstanding deeds committed in peacetime, merit in the development of military science and technologies used in training of the Armed Forces of the USSR or merit in strengthening the defense capabilities of the socialist community. It was awarded to soldiers of the Soviet Army, Navy, border and internal security forces, employees of the State Security Committee of the USSR, as well as NCOs and officers of the bodies of internal affairs to units, warships, associations, enterprises, institutions and organizations as well as to military personnel of foreign countries. Dr László Csosz is historian and senior archivist of the National Archives of Hungary, and research fellow of the Wiener Holocaust Library, London.The Order of the Red Star (or Орден Краснoй Звезды in Russian) was a military decoration of the Soviet Union established on 6 April 1930 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The narrative is underscored by the historian Dr László Csősz and illustrated by maps, documents, archival images and family photographs.ĭr Agnes Kaposi is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Churchill Fellow. The tone is light and there is plenty of irony and even humour. Her memoir is thoroughly researched and written with compassion and optimism, without self-pity. She was the third woman to become a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Entering Britain as a graduate engineer, she started a family and built a career as a researcher, educator and consultant. In 1956, the Hungarian revolution offered the opportunity to escape. She struggled through post-war hardship to re-enter Hungarian society, only to be caught up for a decade in the vice of Stalinism. ![]() ![]() She worked as a child labourer in the agricultural and armament camps of Austria and was liberated by a rampaging Soviet Army. ![]() Many of her family and friends were murdered in the Holocaust, together with half a million other Hungarian Jews, but a series of miracles and coincidences allowed her to survive. She started school at the outbreak of World War II. Yellow Star-Red Star is the poignant memoir of Dr Agnes Kaposi, a Hungarian-born British engineer, educator, author and Holocaust survivor.ĭr Agnes Kaposi was born in Hungary in 1932, a year before Hitler came to power. Red Star Pizza is a family owned and operated business located in the heart of New Jersey. ![]()
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