Order Of Victory: Military order of the Soviet Union
The Order of Victory (Russian: Орден «Победа», romanized: Orden Pobeda) was the highest military decoration awarded for World War II service in the Soviet Union, and one of the rarest orders in the world.
The order was awarded only to Generals and Marshals for successfully conducting combat operations involving one or more army groups and resulting in a "successful operation within the framework of one or several fronts resulting in a radical change of the situation in favor of the Red Army." In the history of the Soviet Union, the award had been awarded twenty times to twelve Soviet leaders and five foreign leaders, with one revocation. The last living recipient was King Michael I of Romania, who died on 5 December 2017.
| Order of Victory Орден «Победа» | |
|---|---|
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| Insignia of the Star of the Order | |
| Awarded by Soviet Union | |
| Motto | Honneur et patrie ("Honour and Motherland") |
| Eligibility | Only Marshals and Military Generals |
| Awarded for | Conducting combat operations involving one or more army groups and resulting in a "successful operation within the framework of one or several fronts resulting in a radical change of the situation in favor of the Red Army" |
| Status | No longer awarded |
| Grades (w/ post-nominals) | Member |
| Statistics | |
| Established | 8 November 1943 |
| First induction | 10 April 1944 |
| Last induction | 20 February 1978 (last induction later revoked) |
| Total inductees | 20 |
| Precedence | |
| Next (higher) | None |
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| Ribbon of the Order of Victory | |
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