02-05-2012, 10:06 PM
As this is mainly a "Soviet" forum, I suspect the question (and the answer) were directed at the awards of the USSR during the period before the USSR ceased to exist. Throwing in post-1991 "stuff" (and I struggle here to use a "nice" word) just distorts things. I further suspect that after 1992 people just do whatever they want to (both at the governmental and individual level).












