Historically, ROCOR has always affirmed that it was an inseparable part of the Russian Church, and that its autonomous status was only temporary, based upon Ukaz 362, until such time as the domination of the Soviet government over the affairs of the Church should cease:

Though many of his development projects required foreign technical expertise, he avoided awarding contracts to British and Soviet companies.

The practice of awarding the title multiple times was abolished by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1988 during perestroika.

The armed forces of Germany, the United States, the former Soviet Union and others have engaged in awarding streamers.

On 12 August 2010 the High Administrative Court of Ukraine dismissed suits to declare four decrees by President Viktor Yanukovych on awarding the Hero of Ukraine title to Soviet soldiers illegal and cancel them.

Soviet speed skaters Yevgeny Grishin and Lidiya Skoblikova were the only multiple gold medalists.

* Lidiya Ginzburg ( 1902 – 1990 ), major Soviet literary critic and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad

The star of the Soviet Order of Victory awarded to Eisenhower.

Often, one finds statements that Soviet POWs on their return to the Soviet Union were often treated as traitors ( see Order No. 270 ).

* 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union.

Chernenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1976, in 1981 and in 1984 he was awarded Hero of the Socialist Labour: on the latter occasion, Minister of Defence Ustinov underlined his rule as an " outstanding political figure, a loyal and unwavering continuer of the cause of the great Lenin "; in 1981 he was awarded with the Bulgarian Order of Georgi Dimitrov and in 1982 he received the Lenin Prize for his " Human Rights in Soviet Society.

* Order of the Red Banner of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic ( 17 February 1930 )

Stalin personally never thought much of it, and neither commented publicly on his performance nor awarded him recognition ( i. e. Order of Victory ) as he did for most other Soviet Marshals.

It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

Every republic of the Soviet Union also was awarded with the Order of Lenin.

* July 29 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR institutes the Order of Suvorov, the Order of Kutuzov, and reinstates the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

It fought in three campaigns on behalf of the Soviet Union between 22 March 1943, and 9 May 1945, during which time it destroyed 273 enemy aircraft and received numerous orders, citations and decorations from both France and the Soviet Union, including the French Légion d ’ Honneur and the Soviet Order of the Red Banner.

Because the invasion of the Soviet Union intended to impose the New Order was essentially a war of conquest and extermination, German propaganda efforts designed to win over Russian opinion were, at best, patchy and inconsistent.

Leonid Brezhnev again recreated the All-Union Ministry for Securing the Public Order in July 1966 and later assigned Nikolay Shchyolokov as Minister ; the RSFSR Ministry was disbanded for the second time, the first being at the creation of the NKVD of the Soviet Union.

The most infamous were the Commissar Order ( which stipulated that Soviet political commissars were to be shot on sight ) and the Night and Fog Decree ( which called for the forced disappearance of resistance fighters and other political prisoners in Germany's occupied territories ).

The success of the mission earned Komarov the awards of the Order of Lenin and Hero of the Soviet Union.

Komarov was posthumously awarded his second Order of Lenin and also the Order of Hero of the Soviet Union.

* Order of Friendship of Peoples ( Soviet Union, 1994 )

During the Great Patriotic War, on 29 July 1942, the Soviet authorities introduced an Order of Alexander Nevsky to revive the memory of Alexander's struggle with the Germans.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

At the founding congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( the predecessor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ) Vladimir Lenin was able to gain enough support for the establishment of an all-powerful central organ at the next congress.

" Several delegates to the Congress were quite specific in the criticism, one of them accusing Lenin and his associates of making the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic a place of exile for opponents.

When Lenin died, the Soviet leadership was uncertain how the building of the new, socialist society should proceed.

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union emerged from the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin.

From the outset, this new republic held that film would be the most ideal propaganda tool for the Soviet Union because of its widespread popularity among the established citizenry of the new land ; Vladimir Lenin, in fact, declared it the most important medium for educating the masses in the ways, means and successes of Communism, a position which was later echoed by Joseph Stalin.

The original cover art featured a Soviet mural of Vladimir Lenin and images of Reagan and then-UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

After eight months of liberal rule, the October Revolution brought Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power, leading to the creation of the Soviet Union in place of the disintegrated Russian Empire.

The Russian armies were separated, defeated and pushed back, which forced Lenin and the Soviet leadership to abandon for the time being their strategic objective of linking up with the German and other European revolution-minded comrades ( Lenin's hope of generating support for the Red Army in Poland had already failed to materialize ).

Movie theaters in the Soviet Union showed newsreels and clips of Chiang, at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls, and in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

Malevich's assumption that a shifting in the attitudes of the Soviet authorities towards the modernist art movement would take place after the death of Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky's fall from power, was proven correct in a couple of years, when the Stalinist regime turned against forms of abstraction, considering them a type of " bourgeois " art, that could not express social realities.

Lenin, who had earlier hoped for a speedy Soviet revolution in Germany and other parts of Europe, quickly decided that the imperial government of Germany was still firmly in control and that, without a strong Russian military, an armed conflict with Germany would lead to a collapse of the Soviet government in Russia.

At this point Lenin again argued that the Soviet government had done all it could to explain its position to Western workers and that it was time to accept the terms.

The response arrived on 21 February, but the proposed terms were so harsh that even Lenin briefly thought that the Soviet government had no choice but to fight.

When Communists had taken power, Lenin, who had lived in Munich some years before, sent a congratulatory telegram, but the Soviet Republic was put down on 3 May 1919 by the Freikorps.

Vladimir Lenin, leader of both the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic | RSFSR and the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1924, was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century.

Social developments in the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1941 included the relinquishment of the relaxed social control and allowance of experimentation under Lenin to Stalin's promotion of a rigid and authoritarian society based upon discipline – mixing traditional Russian values with Stalin's interpretation of Marxism.

Meant to be the culmination of previous show trials, it was now alleged that Bukharin and others sought to assassinate Lenin and Stalin from 1918, murder Maxim Gorky by poison, partition the Soviet Union and hand out her territories to Germany, Japan and Great Britain.

Another of Eisenstein's films, 1927's October, depicted the Bolshevik perspective on the October Revolution, culminating in the storming of the Winter Palace which provided Soviet viewers with the victory that the workers and peasants lacked in Battleship Potemkin, ending with Lenin ( as played by an unknown worker ) declaring that the government is overthrown.

Civil warfare intensified after Lenin dissolved the Russian Constituent Assembly ( 5 – 6 January 1918 ) and the Soviet government signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ( 3 March 1918 ) removing Russia from the Great War.