Word: suvorov
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...June 1942, Colonel Stalin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for bravery in combat, in 1944 was mentioned in his father's Order of the Day, again for bravery. Said Pravda: "He has continually made a brilliant record in heaviest fighting." Vasily got the Order of Suvorov, 2nd Class, and command of the 16th Air Division (50 planes), based at Dallgow Field near Potsdam. Red airmen say that he just about ran the entire 16th Air Division, since its nominal head, Colonel General Leonid Rudenko, carefully deferred to Joe Stalin's 25-year...
Joseph Stalin had good news of one son, bad news about another: Guards Colonel Vassily Josefovich Stalin won the Order of Suvorov, second class; Jacob Djugashvili, son by a first marriage, was reported (by Paul Ghali of the Chicago Daily News) to have committed suicide in 1943 in the Nazi Oranienburg prison camp...
...long years the citizens of Ismail, Bessarabian city on the lower Danube, have shared a suppressed desire. In 1912 they ordered a statue of Catherine the Great's famed General Suvorov, Russian hero who liberated the city from the Turks. In nearby Odessa a suitable equestrian statue of the general was made, and was ready for shipment when World War I broke out. When that war was finished, Ismail was no longer part of the Russian Empire, and the new Red Russia was not interested in the memory of Tsarist heroes...
...knight and entitles him to wear a crimson satin mantle lined with white taffeta.* He is also an honorary member of London's famed and hoary Athenaeum Club. These honors have now been augmented by one from another great ally of the U.S.-Russia's Order of Suvorov, First Degree, one of the highest military awards the Soviet Union can bestow...
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov (1729-1800) joined the Russian Army as a boy, served against the Swedes and Prussians. He rose to be a major general, a field marshal, a count of the Holy Roman Empire, a prince, a friend of Catherine II. He won signal victories against the Turks, the Poles and the French Revolutionists. Like many another great captain, Suvorov ended his days in defeat and temporary disgrace. But he is a natural hero of the Soviet Union-a rough-spoken soldier's soldier, who disdained foppery and diplomatic delicacy...