87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

[CtahhR]

He may not have done the term required for any of the "Victory" Medals but awarded commemoratives due to being in the "War Veterans" union later on whilst the Soviet Union was still around. Don't forget Umalatova also awarded OPWs too.

I am still fighting for a 84 year old WWII veteran to get his War Medal 67 years later.

As an update;

His OPWII'85 gives us a little insight... Pavel Vasil'evich Veretel'nikov, a 1925 Kazanovo native.

(Still not got the veteran his Medal yet either)