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Did you know ...

• Pavel Antseborenko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 for detonating a live hand grenade to avoid capture, killing himself and several German troops in the process?
• Yakov Kreizer (pictured) was the first Soviet general awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title during World War II?
• the first foreigner decorated in World War Two with the highest Soviet medal, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Czechoslovak soldier, Otakar Jaroš after the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943?
• Israfil Mamedov, the first Azeri Hero of the Soviet Union, killed about seventy Germans, including three officers, during the Battle of Moscow on December 3, 1941?
• Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front?
• Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Sidorenko, a World War II Soviet sniper, destroyed a tank and three tractors, in addition to killing five hundred Wehrmacht soldiers?
• Alexander Novikov, double Hero of the Soviet Union and pioneering commander of the Soviet Air Force, was used to frame Marshal Zhukov, then thrown in prison by Joseph Stalin?
• 78 soldiers of the Soviet 25th Rifle Division were awarded the title, Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest honorary title and the superior degree of distinction of that nation?