How traitors and leaders were awarded: awards of the leaders of the USSR and Russia
State awards, which at different times adorned the chest of those who headed our state, are a topic that is interesting in itself. Moreover, with a deeper understanding of it - especially in terms of comparing the number and degree of deserving of regalia among different leaders, very interesting conclusions suggest themselves. What kind? Let's meditate together.
In this review, we will not touch on the Russian Empire, since in this case its volume risks going beyond all reasonable limits. Let's start right away with the latest history - that is, with the Soviet Union. The least awarded was, imagine, its creator - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. As a matter of fact, officially and intravitally, he was awarded only the Order of Labor of the Khorezm People’s Soviet Republic. And the leader of the world proletariat did not even hold this insignia - when he was brought to Moscow, Lenin was already very sick, and the nearby secretary Fotieva ordered to send the “badge” to the archive, from where it was removed already in the 60s. Many people know about the three orders of the Red Banner of War, pinned to the jacket of the already deceased Ilyich by those who stood on the guard of honor. But they can’t be ranked as awards.
But few people know that in 1917, after the adoption of the "Decree on Peace", Lenin was nominated by Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, of course, the imperialists did not give a damn! The Prize Committee rejected the application, “moving out” that it was submitted later than the deadlines. Then, however, he honestly admitted that such an award could not take place while a civil war was going on in Russia. So I received the "Nobel Prize" is already a completely different Secretary General. However, let's not get ahead of ourselves ...
Much more is known about the awards of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. However, often the question of such is discussed in the context of idiotic myths, which at one time surrounded the figure of the Leader. You see, he “inflated the personality cult”, and therefore “rewarded himself” - absolutely, of course, undeservedly. Well, let's get it right. Stalin received the first order of the Red Banner of War in 1919 for the defense of Petrograd and "selfless work on the Southern Front of the struggle against the White Guards." His merits in these moments are not disputed even by the most ardent anti-Stalinists. And Joseph Vissarionovich was not any General Secretary then. In 1922, Stalin was awarded the Order of the Red Star of the Bukhara Soviet Republic - he also did not assign himself.
The awards of the Stalin leader begin, as a matter of fact, with the second order of the military Red Banner, which he received in commemoration of "great merits in the cause of social construction." It should be understood that the word “social” is not used here in the usual sense for us - this means building socialism in the USSR, which really was a real battle, quite worthy of military orders. In 1938, Stalin was awarded the jubilee medal “XX years of the Red Army”. Well, there is more than enough evidence of his merits in the matter of military construction. The first highest award of the USSR - the Gold Medal "Hammer and Sickle" of the Hero of Socialist Labor and attached to that Order of Lenin, Stalin received in 1939. The basis is "exceptional merit in the organization of the party and the building of socialism in the USSR."
Was this award deserved, which Joseph Vissarionovich himself considered his main distinction and, the only one he wore always and everywhere, almost never taking off? (With the full "iconostasis" - and even without foreign awards, the Leader appeared in public on especially solemn occasions that can be counted on the fingers.) Well, let's ponder - by 1939 the country had made an unprecedented, unprecedented in the history of mankind " big leap ”- from plow and torch to full mechanization, electrification, modernization of the national economy. Successfully implemented industrialization and collectivization. On the site of the ruined, half-starved, illiterate Russia, a colossus was erected with the most modern factories, power plants, with advanced science, education and medicine. Instead of embodying the Trotskyist delirium about the “world revolution”, Stalin built the Red Empire on the ashes, which the whole world respected and feared. The title of the Hero in this case is just an objective assessment of the one who organized and headed all this.
What is characteristic, the first military award - the Order of Suvorov of the 1943st degree, Stalin found it possible to accept only in November 1944, after Stalingrad and the Kursk Bulge - when a radical turning point in the Great Patriotic War was obvious even to the most stubborn skeptics. And the first of the two orders of “Victory” - only in 1945, when Nazi evil was completely swept out of our land. The defeat of the Third Reich by that time was already just a matter of time - so, quite deservedly. Like another order of the military Red Banner in the same year. The Supreme received the second “Victory” in the summer of XNUMX. Then he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. And this award should be particularly detailed. Stalin never awarded "himself" - the corresponding decrees were signed by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. So - the Supreme Personnel almost nailed the signers of the Decree on awarding him with the Golden Star of the Hero, and the softest word he used in their address was “sneak”. Joseph Vissarionovich’s particular fury was caused by an attempt to establish the Order of Stalin, which he ruthlessly broke. But the Star of the Hero did not wear. Almost never, once and for all, cutting off: “I have no right! I didn’t fight at the front! ” Here is such a "personality cult."
Stalin had three medals for the Great Patriotic War: “For the Defense of Moscow” and for the victory over Germany and Japan, respectively. We will challenge! There were also foreign awards - most of all they adored assigning them to Joseph Vissarionovich in Mongolia and Czechoslovakia. In the first case - five awards, including the title of Hero of the Mongolian People’s Republic, in the second - four, of which two are “Military Crosses”. The then leaders of the mentioned states perfectly understood where their countries would have been without Stalin, the USSR and the Red Army. Joseph Vissarionovich received his last award in 1949. It was the Order of Lenin.
Nikita Khrushchev, who replaced Stalin at the head of the USSR as a result of the military coup organized by him, was his antagonist in almost everything. Stalin built and won, without protruding his role - Khrushchev destroyed everything that he could reach, shamelessly appropriating other people's merits. With awards, everything happened in this vein. The general orders of Khrushchev - Suvorov ІІ degrees and Kutuzov І degrees (beyond Stalingrad and the Kursk Bulge, respectively), most historians consider, to put it mildly, undeserved. And already in the matter of hanging the Stars of the Hero on himself, Nikita broke up, so he broke up. The bald maize-seed acted briskly - if he had managed to “steer” the USSR not a dozen years old, but a little more, he would have definitely outdone the “dear Leonid Ilyich”. And so “only something” three times Hero of Socialist Labor: the first Star was received in 1954, obviously, from accomplices for a successful coup, and the other two are even more beautiful - “for the virgin land” and “for space exploration”. Cosmonaut, damn it ... The hero of the Soviet Union was hung just for his birthday - in 1964, exactly before he was overthrown to hell.
Khrushchev had seven orders of Lenin. And as far as foreign awards are concerned, there wasn’t anything here - the German Order of Karl Marx, the Czech White Lion, and the Bulgarian George Dimitrov (plus the title of Hero of Bulgaria), Romanian and Mongolian awards. The pearl of the collection is the Egyptian Order of the Nile Necklace. Well, after that I had to urgently make Abdel Nasser a Hero of the Soviet Union. Concerning this award subsequently laughed and spit not only the entire USSR, but also the Arab East. Shame ...
Talking about the awards of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev ... Well, this is, let’s say, not the easiest task - there is always a danger of getting lost in bearded jokes and “perestroika” nonsense. Yes, in the award business he outdid, perhaps, everyone and everything - even, it seems, got into this Guinness Book of Records. Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (only Marshal Zhukov had so many Stars), Hero of Socialist Labor ... Cavalier of the Order of Victory, the award of which was canceled in 1989. 16 Soviet orders and 22 medals. There is nothing to say about foreign awards - from Mongolia and Poland - 8 awards, 12 - from Czechoslovakia, 6 - from Cuba ... And also - Ethiopia, Guinea, Vietnam and others, and others.
At the same time, among the rewards of this Secretary General are those that he certainly deserved, defending his homeland in the Great Patriotic War from the autumn of 1941. The Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, two orders of the Red Banner of War, medals "For Combat Merit", "For the Defense of the Caucasus" and "For the Victory over Nazi Germany" - Leonid Brezhnev rightfully received all this as a front-line soldier. And as for the "Victory" ... Yes, by status, and in fact Brezhnev, this order was not put. However, the fact that they took him from the dead Secretary General, and people who deserve the respect of the descendants is much less than him, personally I disgust.
So - regarding those who selected. The collapsed Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, did not disdain Soviet awards. What did he get them for? Well, if in the submission to the Order of the Red Banner of Labor great successes were also mentioned in working on the Stalinets combine, then further ... The remaining awards - from the medal For Labor Valor to the two Orders of Lenin and the Badge of Honor were received by our future destroyer Homeland during the "hard labor" work on not at all dusty Komsomol and party leadership posts. As for the medal "For Strengthening the Military Commonwealth," I am generally silent. On the forehead - with a nail ... the highest award of Russia - the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called, Gorbachev also has, as well as the Russian Order of Honor. However, all these are trifles in comparison with foreign awards, and in particular with the extraordinarily premiums and honorary titles. Here, the "tagged" simply have no equal!
His Judaic Nobel Peace Prize has been spoken about. Generally speaking, how many times Gorbachev was awarded “for peace and disarmament” is difficult to calculate. Mostly Americans. They also awarded “for the development of democracy, the struggle for freedom and against oppression”. For some reason, Italians were especially zealous, but, in general, holy fools from all over the world tried. Among the Italian awards, by the way, there are very interesting ones. For example, the prize “For a Brave Mind” was divided between Ronald Reagan (deceased at that time) and Mikhail Sergeyevich (alive, of course). Reagan got "for the mind", Gorbachev - "for courage." No comment ... It’s equally difficult to say anything censorship about awarding this activist with the “Freedom” medal, which he personally handed to him by George W. Bush and some other “distinctions” - like the prize of the International Zionist Women's Organization from Miami. Oh yes - forgot! There is also a Grammy Award received, again, together with another American president, Bill Clinton. For scoring the cartoon "Peter and the Wolf" ...
In my deep conviction, if there is a prize that citizen Gorbachev truly honored - an honorary scientist of 25 world universities and an honorary citizen of 12 cities (including not a single Russian one), it is the Order of Judah established by Emperor Peter the Great. And enough about that.
Of course, our story would be incomplete if we did not touch on the awards and regalia of the current president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. There are only one awaiting sensational revelations immediately - Vladimir Vladimirovich has only one Soviet order - “Badge of Honor”. From those times, there is the Bronze Medal "For Merit" of the GDR Army and two departmental medals of the State Security Committee. Somehow it’s not enough for the KGB colonel ... However, with Russian regalia it’s also not enough - the orders of Honor and For Services to the Republic of Dagestan. That's all. There are six religious insignia of high rank. Enough of foreign awards - up to the French Order of the Legion of Honor. It seems that there are 25 of them today. Well, what can you do - status, third term. American, by the way - not a single one. True, there is a “Named Firearm” from ... Ukraine! Honorary degrees are also available - in educational institutions in Russia, Greece, India, Greece, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Honorary citizen of Crimea and 11 cities - exclusively in Russia and Serbia (there are even more). A lot of sports regalia, the deservedness of which hardly anyone will doubt.
In principle, another in place of Putin would have hung himself, for example, with military orders - for the same Syria or Crimea. Or he would have appropriated something “labor” - for the “Northern” or “Turkish” flows. Well, at least - for the development and implementation under his "strict guidance" of the same "Vanguard" with the "Dagger"! Fortunately, Putin is not the “other.” I don’t see the need to develop this idea - on the basis of the above, everyone can independently draw conclusions on how the true significance of this or that leader of our country relates to the number of his awards and regalia.
In this review, we will not touch on the Russian Empire, since in this case its volume risks going beyond all reasonable limits. Let's start right away with the latest history - that is, with the Soviet Union. The least awarded was, imagine, its creator - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. As a matter of fact, officially and intravitally, he was awarded only the Order of Labor of the Khorezm People’s Soviet Republic. And the leader of the world proletariat did not even hold this insignia - when he was brought to Moscow, Lenin was already very sick, and the nearby secretary Fotieva ordered to send the “badge” to the archive, from where it was removed already in the 60s. Many people know about the three orders of the Red Banner of War, pinned to the jacket of the already deceased Ilyich by those who stood on the guard of honor. But they can’t be ranked as awards.
But few people know that in 1917, after the adoption of the "Decree on Peace", Lenin was nominated by Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, of course, the imperialists did not give a damn! The Prize Committee rejected the application, “moving out” that it was submitted later than the deadlines. Then, however, he honestly admitted that such an award could not take place while a civil war was going on in Russia. So I received the "Nobel Prize" is already a completely different Secretary General. However, let's not get ahead of ourselves ...
Much more is known about the awards of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. However, often the question of such is discussed in the context of idiotic myths, which at one time surrounded the figure of the Leader. You see, he “inflated the personality cult”, and therefore “rewarded himself” - absolutely, of course, undeservedly. Well, let's get it right. Stalin received the first order of the Red Banner of War in 1919 for the defense of Petrograd and "selfless work on the Southern Front of the struggle against the White Guards." His merits in these moments are not disputed even by the most ardent anti-Stalinists. And Joseph Vissarionovich was not any General Secretary then. In 1922, Stalin was awarded the Order of the Red Star of the Bukhara Soviet Republic - he also did not assign himself.
The awards of the Stalin leader begin, as a matter of fact, with the second order of the military Red Banner, which he received in commemoration of "great merits in the cause of social construction." It should be understood that the word “social” is not used here in the usual sense for us - this means building socialism in the USSR, which really was a real battle, quite worthy of military orders. In 1938, Stalin was awarded the jubilee medal “XX years of the Red Army”. Well, there is more than enough evidence of his merits in the matter of military construction. The first highest award of the USSR - the Gold Medal "Hammer and Sickle" of the Hero of Socialist Labor and attached to that Order of Lenin, Stalin received in 1939. The basis is "exceptional merit in the organization of the party and the building of socialism in the USSR."
Was this award deserved, which Joseph Vissarionovich himself considered his main distinction and, the only one he wore always and everywhere, almost never taking off? (With the full "iconostasis" - and even without foreign awards, the Leader appeared in public on especially solemn occasions that can be counted on the fingers.) Well, let's ponder - by 1939 the country had made an unprecedented, unprecedented in the history of mankind " big leap ”- from plow and torch to full mechanization, electrification, modernization of the national economy. Successfully implemented industrialization and collectivization. On the site of the ruined, half-starved, illiterate Russia, a colossus was erected with the most modern factories, power plants, with advanced science, education and medicine. Instead of embodying the Trotskyist delirium about the “world revolution”, Stalin built the Red Empire on the ashes, which the whole world respected and feared. The title of the Hero in this case is just an objective assessment of the one who organized and headed all this.
What is characteristic, the first military award - the Order of Suvorov of the 1943st degree, Stalin found it possible to accept only in November 1944, after Stalingrad and the Kursk Bulge - when a radical turning point in the Great Patriotic War was obvious even to the most stubborn skeptics. And the first of the two orders of “Victory” - only in 1945, when Nazi evil was completely swept out of our land. The defeat of the Third Reich by that time was already just a matter of time - so, quite deservedly. Like another order of the military Red Banner in the same year. The Supreme received the second “Victory” in the summer of XNUMX. Then he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. And this award should be particularly detailed. Stalin never awarded "himself" - the corresponding decrees were signed by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. So - the Supreme Personnel almost nailed the signers of the Decree on awarding him with the Golden Star of the Hero, and the softest word he used in their address was “sneak”. Joseph Vissarionovich’s particular fury was caused by an attempt to establish the Order of Stalin, which he ruthlessly broke. But the Star of the Hero did not wear. Almost never, once and for all, cutting off: “I have no right! I didn’t fight at the front! ” Here is such a "personality cult."
Stalin had three medals for the Great Patriotic War: “For the Defense of Moscow” and for the victory over Germany and Japan, respectively. We will challenge! There were also foreign awards - most of all they adored assigning them to Joseph Vissarionovich in Mongolia and Czechoslovakia. In the first case - five awards, including the title of Hero of the Mongolian People’s Republic, in the second - four, of which two are “Military Crosses”. The then leaders of the mentioned states perfectly understood where their countries would have been without Stalin, the USSR and the Red Army. Joseph Vissarionovich received his last award in 1949. It was the Order of Lenin.
Nikita Khrushchev, who replaced Stalin at the head of the USSR as a result of the military coup organized by him, was his antagonist in almost everything. Stalin built and won, without protruding his role - Khrushchev destroyed everything that he could reach, shamelessly appropriating other people's merits. With awards, everything happened in this vein. The general orders of Khrushchev - Suvorov ІІ degrees and Kutuzov І degrees (beyond Stalingrad and the Kursk Bulge, respectively), most historians consider, to put it mildly, undeserved. And already in the matter of hanging the Stars of the Hero on himself, Nikita broke up, so he broke up. The bald maize-seed acted briskly - if he had managed to “steer” the USSR not a dozen years old, but a little more, he would have definitely outdone the “dear Leonid Ilyich”. And so “only something” three times Hero of Socialist Labor: the first Star was received in 1954, obviously, from accomplices for a successful coup, and the other two are even more beautiful - “for the virgin land” and “for space exploration”. Cosmonaut, damn it ... The hero of the Soviet Union was hung just for his birthday - in 1964, exactly before he was overthrown to hell.
Khrushchev had seven orders of Lenin. And as far as foreign awards are concerned, there wasn’t anything here - the German Order of Karl Marx, the Czech White Lion, and the Bulgarian George Dimitrov (plus the title of Hero of Bulgaria), Romanian and Mongolian awards. The pearl of the collection is the Egyptian Order of the Nile Necklace. Well, after that I had to urgently make Abdel Nasser a Hero of the Soviet Union. Concerning this award subsequently laughed and spit not only the entire USSR, but also the Arab East. Shame ...
Talking about the awards of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev ... Well, this is, let’s say, not the easiest task - there is always a danger of getting lost in bearded jokes and “perestroika” nonsense. Yes, in the award business he outdid, perhaps, everyone and everything - even, it seems, got into this Guinness Book of Records. Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (only Marshal Zhukov had so many Stars), Hero of Socialist Labor ... Cavalier of the Order of Victory, the award of which was canceled in 1989. 16 Soviet orders and 22 medals. There is nothing to say about foreign awards - from Mongolia and Poland - 8 awards, 12 - from Czechoslovakia, 6 - from Cuba ... And also - Ethiopia, Guinea, Vietnam and others, and others.
At the same time, among the rewards of this Secretary General are those that he certainly deserved, defending his homeland in the Great Patriotic War from the autumn of 1941. The Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, two orders of the Red Banner of War, medals "For Combat Merit", "For the Defense of the Caucasus" and "For the Victory over Nazi Germany" - Leonid Brezhnev rightfully received all this as a front-line soldier. And as for the "Victory" ... Yes, by status, and in fact Brezhnev, this order was not put. However, the fact that they took him from the dead Secretary General, and people who deserve the respect of the descendants is much less than him, personally I disgust.
So - regarding those who selected. The collapsed Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, did not disdain Soviet awards. What did he get them for? Well, if in the submission to the Order of the Red Banner of Labor great successes were also mentioned in working on the Stalinets combine, then further ... The remaining awards - from the medal For Labor Valor to the two Orders of Lenin and the Badge of Honor were received by our future destroyer Homeland during the "hard labor" work on not at all dusty Komsomol and party leadership posts. As for the medal "For Strengthening the Military Commonwealth," I am generally silent. On the forehead - with a nail ... the highest award of Russia - the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called, Gorbachev also has, as well as the Russian Order of Honor. However, all these are trifles in comparison with foreign awards, and in particular with the extraordinarily premiums and honorary titles. Here, the "tagged" simply have no equal!
His Judaic Nobel Peace Prize has been spoken about. Generally speaking, how many times Gorbachev was awarded “for peace and disarmament” is difficult to calculate. Mostly Americans. They also awarded “for the development of democracy, the struggle for freedom and against oppression”. For some reason, Italians were especially zealous, but, in general, holy fools from all over the world tried. Among the Italian awards, by the way, there are very interesting ones. For example, the prize “For a Brave Mind” was divided between Ronald Reagan (deceased at that time) and Mikhail Sergeyevich (alive, of course). Reagan got "for the mind", Gorbachev - "for courage." No comment ... It’s equally difficult to say anything censorship about awarding this activist with the “Freedom” medal, which he personally handed to him by George W. Bush and some other “distinctions” - like the prize of the International Zionist Women's Organization from Miami. Oh yes - forgot! There is also a Grammy Award received, again, together with another American president, Bill Clinton. For scoring the cartoon "Peter and the Wolf" ...
In my deep conviction, if there is a prize that citizen Gorbachev truly honored - an honorary scientist of 25 world universities and an honorary citizen of 12 cities (including not a single Russian one), it is the Order of Judah established by Emperor Peter the Great. And enough about that.
Of course, our story would be incomplete if we did not touch on the awards and regalia of the current president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. There are only one awaiting sensational revelations immediately - Vladimir Vladimirovich has only one Soviet order - “Badge of Honor”. From those times, there is the Bronze Medal "For Merit" of the GDR Army and two departmental medals of the State Security Committee. Somehow it’s not enough for the KGB colonel ... However, with Russian regalia it’s also not enough - the orders of Honor and For Services to the Republic of Dagestan. That's all. There are six religious insignia of high rank. Enough of foreign awards - up to the French Order of the Legion of Honor. It seems that there are 25 of them today. Well, what can you do - status, third term. American, by the way - not a single one. True, there is a “Named Firearm” from ... Ukraine! Honorary degrees are also available - in educational institutions in Russia, Greece, India, Greece, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Honorary citizen of Crimea and 11 cities - exclusively in Russia and Serbia (there are even more). A lot of sports regalia, the deservedness of which hardly anyone will doubt.
In principle, another in place of Putin would have hung himself, for example, with military orders - for the same Syria or Crimea. Or he would have appropriated something “labor” - for the “Northern” or “Turkish” flows. Well, at least - for the development and implementation under his "strict guidance" of the same "Vanguard" with the "Dagger"! Fortunately, Putin is not the “other.” I don’t see the need to develop this idea - on the basis of the above, everyone can independently draw conclusions on how the true significance of this or that leader of our country relates to the number of his awards and regalia.
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