last: nice group of all nationalities (remember the official story of stalingrad: the 23 defenders of the "sergent Pavlov house" (Lenin place) who fought 3 days from 25 to 28 september against the germans = "a symbol of the unity of the people of ussr:11 russians, 6 ukrainians, 1 kazakh, 1 ouzbek, 1 tadjik, 1 tartar, 1 jew"
Sebastien
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism"
(a well-known german bearbed)
05-03-2003, 08:16 AM (This post was last modified: 04-08-2012, 06:19 AM by CtahhR.)
S.P. Korolev, the "chief designer" of Soviet boosters, satellites and spacecraft, is awarded HSL and an order of Lenin by L.I. Brezhnev. note the HSL and order of Lenin boxes on the table.
Korolev with 2 HSL stars and a Lenin prize.
Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, under the leadership of the Communist Party--forward to new victories in the construction of communism!
Here is an old photo of a Soviet U-boat officer and some of his crew,Spring 1940. His name is Fjodor Grigorjevitj Versjinin
and he is HSU since Feb 7th 1940.
He was the commander on SC-311 and got his title for sinking more then 10000 tons of enemy ships !
The truth ? Well he did sank the finnish ship Wilpas 775 ton
Dec 29 th 1939 and later the Swedish ship Fenris 484 Ton
Jan 5th 1940.
And in just 2 years of war, Fjodors run out of luck, Oct 12th 1942
he was sunk by Finnish deapth charges.
A old photo and a sad story behind it....
Christer
What % of Soviet sub crews survived the war? It must be like 25% or something.
Ever visit the WWII Soviet sub near Leningrad? I have been there a few times and it always amazes me how small it is inside. There are some good displays on Soviet subs in WWII in the Naval Museum in St.Pete too.
