10-08-2010, 10:56 PM
I was thinking today after reading recent posts about awards being returned to the state on death and so on, just what tales some Soviet awards would have to tell. I was wondering are there any known stories of Soviet forces "surrendering" or being encircled and awards being "lost in battle" or "stolen" by German forces only to be reunited with the original awardee after they were "liberated" from German hands? or maybe retrieving a battlefield dug award and returning them to the person who originally was awarded with it?
