Order of The Red Banner - Individual Feats

Individual Feats

Feats of valour worthy of the award of the Order of the Red Banner were as much against internal as against external enemies of the USSR as detailed below:

• Private Mikhail Minin was awarded the Order of the red Banner for being the first to enter the Reichstag building on April 30, 1945 during the Battle of Berlin, and the first soldier to mount the red flag on its roof at 10:40 pm.
• Pavel Dybenko won 3 Orders of the Red Banner, his first in the 1921 bloody suppression of the naval rebellion in Kronstadt, his 2 others in 1922 in the suppression of peasants uprisings.
• Sasha Fillipov received his posthumous award in 1944 for spying on, and being executed by the Germans during the Battle of Stalingrad.
• Official Executioner Vasili Mikhailovich Blokhin was awarded his in 1941 for leading a company of executioners that performed and supervised numerous mass executions during Stalin's reign.
• Major General Mikhail Vasilyevich Vodopianov was awarded 2 of his 4 Orders of the Red Banner for his leadership of long range bomber groups during World War II often personally leading the missions.