Talk:Hero of the Soviet Union

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Sources for this my claim: The last recipient of the title Hero of the Soviet Union was a Soviet diver, Captain of the 3rd rank Leonid Mikhailovich Solodkov on December 24 1991 for fulfillment of the special diving task.

are [1][2][3] and others. Cmapm 17:19, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Maybe next to the names of the list of recipients a brief description of what their achievements were.

I need a source for Nasser being awarded the status, or I'm removing it. I can't find any mention on google, and I would think such a thing would be well-documented. Sherurcij ^{(talk) (bounties)} 05:51, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the extremely late reply :-)) but the source is [4]. Cmapm 02:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Vladimir Melnik

What about Vladimir Melnik? It says on the article about the "liquidators" (workers who helped to clean up after the Chernobyl (sp?) meltdown) was awarded it for placing a radition sensor on the reactor.

First women recipients

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was not the first woman recipient of the title - she was the first WARTIME woman recipient. The first women to be awarded with the title were Valentina Grizodubova, Polina Osipenko and Marina Raskova in 1938 - see [5].

Leonid Brezhnev

Hi i am from Türkiye. I think i saw a mistake. I know that only Georgy Zhukov was given Hero of the Soviet Union medals as four times. Leonid Brezhnev was awarded 3 times. The medal at the right in his photo is not Hero of the Soviet Union medal. It is Hero of Socialist Labor medal. Not only becouse of photos i also know it from the museum in Kiev. This museum is under Motherland statue and at the fourth floor it is written on the wall that only Georgy Zhukov was awarded for four times. I visit there several times. http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullan%C4%B1c%C4%B1:Devrimdpt —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.252.253.247 (talk) 22:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC).

Brezhnev did, in fact, receive the Hero of the Soviet Union four times, as referenced in this plaque: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brezhnev_plaque.jpg . He wore five star medals of two different kinds: four medals of Hero of the Soviet Union, and one star for Hero of Socialist Labor. --Ericdn (talk) 21:47, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Endel Puusepp listed twice

E. Puusepp is listed twice. I think he should be only listed among "domestic" recipients as at the time of decoration he was a citizen of USSR, but nevertheless he was Estonian and not Soviet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.97.48.83 (talk) 21:13, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

POV problem? From the end of World War II until Estonian independence from the USSR, all Estonians living in the Estonian SSR or elsewhere in the USSR were Soviet citizens. More to the point, if he received the Hero of the Soviet Union award, chances are he wasn't anti-Soviet, at least at the time. --Ericdn (talk) 21:51, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Spanish Flags: contemporary or modern?

The flags next to two Spanish-born recipients (Rubén Ibárruri and Ramón Mercader) show the Spanish flag of the 2nd republic (1931-1939) which seems to make no sense. If all the flag icon is saying is that "these men were Spanish" then shouldn't it be the current spanish flag? That seems to be more cosnistent with the guidelines, as the point is that they were Spanish, not something to do with the 2nd Republic.

Common practice on Wikipedia is to recognize people for their achievements under the flag that they were under at the time. For example, the East German recipients are shown with the East German flag, even though they would live in reunited Germany under the German flag if they were alive today. By the same token, a German general from World War I would be given the old Imperial German flag, not an anachronistic modern German flag, and a general from the Nazi era would get the swastika flag. 72.148.45.37 (talk) 12:11, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Copyediting needed

The first sentence under "Overview" does not make sense, and needs to be modified. I can't do it, because I don't even understand, what is being tried to say. DubZog (talk) 21:55, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Fixed Alex Bakharev (talk) 22:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Jakub Gakar Hyten

What is the source for Jakub Gakar Hyten being awarded the HSU? I can't find any mention of this elsewhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.119.87.6 (talk) 13:16, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

It's fiction, I think --Arachn0 (talk) 10:19, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

No list?

Is there any reason that there isn't a list of the individual awarded the HoSU like other highest national awards?220.238.47.156 (talk) 11:40, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Kim Philby

Didn't Kim Philby recieve this honnour ? His work for the KGB was importaint and he was a an ideological spy, who didn't care about money (which was importaint reguarding such matters in the USSR) ? 83.249.164.158 (talk) 22:43, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

"Not god, not tsar, nor hero"

In the second verse of the Russian version of the Internationale, which was the Soviet national anthem until 1944, it says "No one will grant us deliverance, Not god, nor tsar, nor hero." I would be interested to hear how that was reconciled with the title "Hero of the Soviet Union". Gingekerr (talk) 19:14, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

And Alexander Rodimtsev?

In "Notable recipients" section I think Rodimtsev must appeared. He was one of the key characters of Battle of Stalingrad. Angonfer9 (talk) 14:46, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Guys... Why's Alexander Rusev listed here?

He is a damn WWE wrestler(See Foreign recipients) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.76.140.150 (talk) 15:10, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

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