Soviet THE SOVIET QUIZ - 2011 - QUIZ CLOSED

[ub6365]

I was born in March of 1919. I was also known as number three (third). Whole my life I promoted ideas of communism and world revolution and fought against fashism. I was affected by Stalin’s Great Purge. My last day was May 15, 1943.

Question #96 , please name me and tell about my complicated relationships with Communist Party of China.

[Christophe]

I am the Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International.

From Wikipedia :

The Comintern (1919–1943) was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919. The International intended to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State."

The Comintern was founded after the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference in which Vladimir Lenin had organized the "Zimmerwald Left" against those who refused to approve any statement explicitly endorsing socialist revolutionary action, and after the 1916 dissolution of the Second International.

The Comintern had seven World Congresses between 1919 and 1935. It also had thirteen "Enlarged Plenums" of its governing Executive Committee, which had much the same function as the somewhat larger and more grandiose Congresses. The Comintern was officially dissolved during 1943.

The complicated relationship between the Comintern and the Communist Party of China (CPC) is an important chapter in the history of Comintern.

The CPC was established in 1921 with the help of the Comintern. The CPC declared itself to be a branch of the Comintern. At that time, China had a large revolutionary party called the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang). Its leader, Dr. Sun Yatsen, frustrated by the refusal of aid for China from the democratic Western countries, quickly turned to the Soviet Union and the Comintern. Under the instruction of the Comintern, the CPC joined the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang also applied for membership in the Comintern, but was not accepted since it was essentially considered to be an anti-colonialist bourgeois political party and not a true Marxist vehicle. Sun Yatsen’s successor, Chiang Kai-shek, was once elected as an honorary member of the standing committee of the Comintern.

The Northern Expedition became a point of contention over foreign policy by Joseph Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin funded the KMT during the expedition. Stalin countered Trotskyist criticism by making a secret speech in which he said that Chiang's right wing Kuomintang were the only ones capable of defeating the imperialists, that Chiang Kai-shek had funding from the rich merchants, and that his forces were to be utilized until squeezed for all usefulness like a lemon before being discarded. However, Chiang quickly reversed the tables in the Shanghai massacre of 1927 by massacring the Communist party in Shanghai midway in the Northern Expedition.

After the success of the joint revolution of the Kuomintang and CPC in reuniting China under a single government, they split over their ideological differences. The Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek ultimately became an anti-Communist force. After being besieged by Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist army, the Chinese Red Army had to escape to try to find a new base - this came to be known as the Long March (1934–1935).

During the Long March, the CPC party leadership re-examined its policy in Zunyi (January 1935). Mao Zedong blamed the CPC's failure to ignite a revolution on their decision to blindly follow the Comintern's instructions, which did not take into account the reality of Chinese conditions. During the heated debate, Zhou Enlai unexpectedly accepted the criticism and sided with Mao. Otto Braun was dismissed from his position as the CPC's military commander.

After they resettled in Yanan, the native Chinese Communists, such as Mao and Zhu De, became the real powers in the CPC rather than the foreign Communists supplied by the Comintern. Those Chinese Communists who were loyal to the Comintern, such as a group called the 28 Bolsheviks, fell from all of the most important positions within the CPC. Zhou Enlai became an assistant to Mao in political affairs, such as the pursuit of the United Front and diplomacy. By this time, the Comintern and the Soviet Union could no longer control the CPC. The Comintern continued to give advice, but much of it was simply ignored. The CPC was now a truly Chinese entity, much as the Bolshevik Party had been a truly Russian one.

An exception to this rule was the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, organized by the Manchuria branch of the CPC in 1932. Geographically separated from the CPC headquarters in Yenan, this guerrilla army did not report directly to the CPC center, but was still led and supported by the Soviet Union under the guise of the Comintern until it was defeated by a Japanese occupation force and fled to the Soviet Union in 1942.

Ch.

[ub6365]

Point to Christophe

[JimZ]

Scoreboard update!

24 points - JimZ

17 points - Harvey

15 points - UB6365

14 points - Christophe

12 points - Hauptmann

8 points - Gunner 1

3 points - Valter

2 points - kapten_windu

1 point - Tachel

1 point - K2009

Question 97 belongs to Christophe!!

Jim

Edited December 6, 2011 by JimZ

[JimZ]

WHO WILL GET TO ASK QUESTION 100?????

WHO WILL GET TO REPLY TO IT????

Jim

[ub6365]

It will be correct if Jim will ask Question # 100... Who should answer- no idea

[Christophe]

Question #97 :

We were 10, then 9.

We disappeared more than 50 years ago.

Our leader never sent the expected telegraph.

Researches lasted 4 months before all our bodies are found.

Despite controversy, our death still remains a mystery.

Question :

1. Who are we ?

2. What happened to us ?

Good hunt and good luck !!

Ch.

[Hauptmann]

Dyatlov Pass Incident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. It happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (Холат Сяхл) (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). Themountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов). The lack of eyewitnesses has inspired much speculation. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Access to the area was barred for skiers and other adventurers for three years after the incident.^[1] The chronology of the incident remains unclear due to the lack of survivors.^[2][3]

Investigators at the time determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot into heavy snow and a temperature of −30°C. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue.^[1] Their clothing, when tested, was found to be highly radioactive.^[1]

Backround:

A group was formed for a ski trek across the northern Urals in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Свердло́вская о́бласть). The group, led by Igor Dyatlov, consisted of eight men and two women. Most were students or graduates of Ural Polytechnical Institute (Уральский Политехнический Институт, УПИ), now Ural State Technical University:

• Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов), the group's leader
  
• Zinaida Kolmogorova (Зинаида Колмогорова)
  
• Lyudmila Dubinina (Людмила Дубинина)
  
• Alexander Kolevatov (Александр Колеватов)
  
• Rustem Slobodin (Рустем Слободин)
  
• Yuri Krivonischenko (Юрий Кривонищенко)
  
• Yuri Doroshenko (Юрий Дорошенко)
  
• Nicolai Thibeaux-Brignolle (Николай Тибо-Бриньоль)
  
• Alexander Zolotarev (Александр Золотарёв)
  
• Yuri Yudin (Юрий Юдин)
  

The goal of the expedition was to reach Otorten (Отортен), a mountain 10 kilometers north of the site of the incident. This route, at that season, was estimated as "Category III", the most difficult. All members were experienced in long ski tours and mountain expeditions.

The group arrived by train at Ivdel (Ивдель), a city at the center of the northern province of Sverdlovsk Oblast on January 25. They then took a truck to Vizhai (Вижай) - the last inhabited settlement so far north. They started their march towards Otorten from Vizhai on January 27. The next day, one of the members (Yuri Yudin) was forced to go back because of illness.^[1] The group now consisted of nine people.

Diaries and cameras found around their last camp made it possible to track the group's route up to the day preceding the incident. On January 31, the group arrived at the edge of a highland area and began to prepare for climbing. In a woody valley they cached surplus food and equipment which would be used for the trip back. The following day (February 1), the hikers started to move through the pass. It seems they planned to get over the pass and make camp for the next night on the opposite side, but because of worsening weather conditions, snowstorms and decreasing visibility, they lost their direction and deviated west, upward towards the top of Kholat Syakhl. When they realized their mistake, the group decided to stop and set up camp there on the slope of the mountain.

The Search:

It had been agreed beforehand that Dyatlov would send a telegraph to their sports club as soon as the group returned to Vizhai. It was expected that this would happen no later than February 12, but when this date had passed and no messages had been received, there was no reaction—delays of a few days were common in such expeditions. Only after the relatives of the travelers demanded a rescue operation did the head of the institute send the first rescue groups, consisting of volunteer students and teachers, on February 20.^[1] Later, the army and police forces became involved, with planes and helicopters being ordered to join the rescue operation.

On February 26, the searchers found the abandoned camp on Kholat Syakhl. The tent was badly damaged. A chain of footprints could be followed, leading down towards the edge of nearby woods (on the opposite side of the pass, 1.5 km north-east), but after 500 meters they were covered with snow. At the forest edge, under a large old cedar, the searchers found the remains of a fire, along with the first two bodies, those of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, shoeless and dressed only in their underwear. Between the cedar and the camp the searchers found three more corpses—Dyatlov, Kolmogorova and Slobodin—who seemed to have died in poses suggesting that they were attempting to return to the camp.^[1] They were found separately at distances of 300, 480 and 630 meters from the cedar tree.

Searching for the remaining four travelers took more than two months. They were finally found on May 4, under four meters of snow, in a ravine in a stream valley further into the wood from the cedar tree.

Investigation:

A legal inquest had been started immediately after finding the first five bodies. A medical examination found no injuries which might have led to their deaths, and it was concluded that they had all died of hypothermia. One person had a small crack in his skull, but it was not thought to be a fatal wound.

An examination of the four bodies which were found in May changed the picture. Three of them had fatal injuries: the body of Thibeaux-Brignolle had major skull damage, and both Dubunina and Zolotarev had major chest fractures. According to Dr. Boris Vozrozhdenny, the force required to cause such damage would have been extremely high. He compared it to the force of a car crash. Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure. One woman was found to be missing her tongue.^[1] There had initially been some speculation that the indigenous Mansi people might have attacked and murdered the group for encroaching upon their lands, but investigation indicated that the nature of their deaths did not support this thesis; the hikers' footprints alone were visible, and they showed no sign of hand-to-hand struggle.^[1]

Though the temperature was very low (around −25° to −30°C) with a storm blowing, the dead were dressed only partially. Some of them had only one shoe, while others had no shoes or wore only socks.^[1] Some were found wrapped in snips of ripped clothes which seemed to be cut from those who were already dead. However, up to 25 percent of hypothermia deaths are associated with so-called "Paradoxical undressing".^[4] This typically occurs during moderate to severe hypothermia, as the person becomes disoriented, confused, and combative. They may begin discarding their clothing, which, in turn, increases the rate of heat loss.

Journalists reporting on the available parts of the inquest files claim that it states:

• Six of the group members died of hypothermia and three of fatal injuries.
  
• There were no indications of other people nearby apart from the nine travelers on Kholat Syakhl, nor anyone in the surrounding areas.
  
• The tent had been ripped open from within.
  
• The victims had died 6 to 8 hours after their last meal.
  
• Traces from the camp showed that all group members left the camp of their own accord, on foot.
  
• To dispel the theory of an attack by the indigenous Mansi people, Dr. Boris Vozrozhdenny stated that the fatal injuries of the three bodies could not have been caused by another human being, "because the force of the blows had been too strong and no soft tissue had been damaged".^[1]
  
• Forensic radiation tests had shown high doses of radioactive contamination on the clothes of a few victims.^[1]
  

The final verdict was that the group members all died because of a "compelling unknown force". The inquest ceased officially in May 1959 due to the "absence of a guilty party". The files were sent to a secret archive, and the photocopies of the case became available only in the 1990s, with some parts missing.^[1]

[edit]Controversy surrounding investigation

Some researchers claim some facts were missed, perhaps ignored, by officials:^[2][3]

• 12 year-old Yury Kuntsevich, who would later become head of the Yekaterinburg-based Dyatlov Foundation (see below), attended five of the hikers' funerals and recalls their skin had a "deep brown tan".^[1]
  
• The hikers' clothing was found to be highly radioactive, however, the source of the contamination was not found.
  
• Another group of hikers (about 50 kilometers south of the incident) reported that they saw strange orange spheres in the night sky to the north (likely in the direction of Kholat Syakhl) on the night of the incident.^[1] Similar "spheres" were observed in Ivdel and adjacent areas continually during the period of February to March 1959, by various independent witnesses (including the meteorology service and the military).^[1]
  
• Some reports suggest that there was a lot of scrap metal in the area, leading to speculation that the military had utilized the area secretly and might be engaged in a cover-up.^[1]
  

[edit]Aftermath

In 1967, Sverdlovsk writer and journalist Yuri Yarovoi (Юрий Яровой) published the novel Of the highest rank of complexity (Высшей категории трудности)^[5] which was inspired by this incident. Yarovoi had been involved in the search for Dyatlov's group and the inquest, including acting as an official photographer for the search campaign and in the initial stage of the investigation, and so had insight into the events. The book was written in the Soviet era when the details of the accident were kept secret, and Yarovoi avoided revealing anything beyond the official position and well-known facts. The book romanticized the accident and had a much more optimistic end than the real events – only the group leader was found deceased. Yarovoi's colleagues say that he had alternative versions of the novel, but both were declined due to censorship. Since Yarovoi's death in 1980 all his archives, including photos, diaries and manuscripts, have been lost.

Some details of the tragedy became publicly available in 1990 due to publications and discussions in Sverdlovsk's regional press. One of the first authors was Sverdlovsk journalist Anatoly Guschin (Анатолий Гущин). Guschin reported that police officials gave him special permission to study the original files of the inquest and use these materials in his publications. He noticed that a number of pages were excluded from the files, as was a mysterious "envelope" mentioned in the case materials list. At the same time photocopies of some of the case files started to circulate among other unofficial researchers.

Guschin summarized his studies in the book The price of state secrets is nine lives (Цена гостайны - девять жизней).^[3] Some researchers criticized it due to its concentration on the speculative theory of a "Soviet secret weapon experiment", but the publication aroused the public discussion, stimulated by interest in the paranormal. Indeed, many of those who remained silent for 30 years reported new facts about the accident. One of them was the former police officer Lev Ivanov (Лев Иванов), who led the official inquest in 1959. In 1990 he published an article^[6] along with his admission that the investigation team had no rational explanation of the accident. He also reported that he received direct orders from high-ranking regional officials to dismiss the inquest and keep its materials secret after reporting that the team had seen "flying spheres". Ivanov personally believes in a paranormal explanation - specifically, UFOs.

In 2000, a regional TV company produced the documentary film "The mystery of Dyatlov Pass" ("Тайна Перевала Дятлова"). With the help of the film crew, a Yekaterinburg writer, Anna Matveyeva (Анна Матвеева), published the fiction/documentary novella of the same name.^[2] A large part of the book includes broad quotations from the official case, diaries of victims, interviews with searchers and other documentaries collected by the film-makers. The narrative line of the book details the everyday life and thoughts of a modern woman (an alter ego of the author herself) who attempts to resolve the case.

In September 2011, Ancient Aliens on the History Channel featured a lengthy segment on the Dyatlov Pass incident.

Despite its fictional narrative, Matveyeva's book remains the largest source of documentary materials ever made available to the public regarding the incident. In addition, the pages of the case files and other documentaries (in photocopies and transcripts) are gradually published on a web forum for enthusiastic researchers: [2] .

The Dyatlov Foundation has been founded in Yekaterinburg (Екатеринбург), with the help of Ural State Technical University, led by Yuri Kuntsevitch (Юрий Кунцевич). The foundation's aim is to convince current Russian officials to reopen the investigation of the case, and to maintain the "Dyatlov Museum" to perpetuate the memory of the dead hikers.

Dan :cheers:

Edited December 6, 2011 by Hauptmann

[Hauptmann]

Yuri Yudin hugging Lyudmila Dublinina as he prepares to leave the group due to illness, as Igor Dyatlov looks on. Photo taken from a roll of film found at the camp of theDyatlov Pass incident and annexed to the legal inquest that investigated the deaths.

Skiers setting up camp at about 5. p.m. on Feb. 2, 1959. Photo taken from a roll of film found at the camp of the Dyatlov Pass incident and annexed to the legal inquest that investigated the deaths.

A view of the tent as the rescuers found it on Feb. 26, 1959. The tent had been cut open from inside, and most of the skiers had fled in socks or barefoot. Photo taken by soviet authorities at the camp of the Dyatlov Pass incident and anexed to the legal inquest that investigated the deaths.

Dan :cheers:

Edited December 6, 2011 by Hauptmann

[Christophe]

Dan,

Congrats!! You got it!!

I thought it would be more difficult...

Personally, I had never heard about this story... I learnt something...

Your turn, now, for Question #98.

Ch.

[Hauptmann]

Question #98:

A good thing peta didn't exist in the soviet union during ww2.

The plan often backfired.

Tanks alot for the food.

To whom does this question refer and what is their story?

Dan :cheers:

[Christophe]

The question refers to Soviet Anti-tank dogs.

They were dogs taught to carry explosives to tanks, armored vehicles and other military targets. They were intensively trained by the Soviet and Russian military forces between 1930 and 1996 and used in 1941–1942 against German tanks. Although the original dog training routine was to leave the bomb and retreat so that the bomb would be detonated by the timer, this routine failed and was replaced by an impact detonation procedure which killed the dog in the process.

In 1924, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Soviet Union approved the use of dogs for military purposes, which included a wide range of tasks such as rescue, delivery of first aid, communication, tracking mines and people, assisting in combat, transporting food, medicine and injured soldiers on sledges, and detonation of enemy targets. For these purposes, a specialized dog training school was founded in the Moscow Oblast. Twelve regional schools were opened soon after, three of which trained anti-tank dogs.German Shepherd dogs were favored for the program for their physical abilities and ease of training, but other breeds were used as well. The idea of using dogs as mobile mines was developed in the 1930s, together with the dog-fitting mine design. In 1935, anti-mine dog units were officially included in the Soviet Army.

The original idea was for a dog to carry a bomb strapped to its body, and reach a specific static target. The dog would then release the bomb by pulling with its teeth a self-releasing belt and return to the operator. The bomb could then be detonated either by a timer or remote control, though the latter was too rare and expensive at the time to be used. A group of dogs practiced this for six months, but the reports show that no dogs could master the task. They performed well on a single target but became confused after the target or location was changed and often returned to the operator with the bomb unreleased, which in a live situation would have killed both the dog and the operator.

Continual failures brought about a simplification. The bomb was fastened on the dog and detonated upon contact with the target, killing the animal. Whereas in the first program, the dog was trained to locate a specific target, this task was simplified to find any enemy tank. Dogs were trained by being kept hungry and their food was placed under tanks. The tanks were at first left standing still, then they had their engines running, which was further combined with sporadic blank-shot gunfire and other battle-related distractions. This routine aimed to teach the dogs to run under the tanks in battlefield situations.

^Ch.

[Hauptmann]

You nailed it Christophe... #99 is now all yours! :jumping:

Dan :cheers:

[JimZ]

I'll update the score once Dan confirms......that's question 99 that will be up next and finally, THE BIG ONE!!!

Thanks for your comment UB, and I would be honoured to ask question 100. However, I'll just be trying to answer question 99 like all the rest....and the honour will belongs to the person coming back with the correct answer.....!

Drums are starting to roll............

Jim :cheers:

[Christophe]

Guys,

One thing is sure : I will be the only one not allowed to ask Question #100...

I come back to you as soon as possible with Question #99

Cheers.

Ch.

[Christophe]

Let's go with Question #99

Question #99 :

I have been Minister of Defense.

When I was very young, I joined the Communist Party, and have gone to jail for short periods.

I have served in several wars, and ended my military career as Army General.

I have been awarded several orders, including 2 Orders of Lenin.

I have been the 1st recipient of a new Order.

Question :

1. Who am I ?

2. What was this new Order ?

Good hunt and good luck !!

The winner will have the upmost privilege to ask for Question #100 !!!!

Ch.

Edited December 7, 2011 by Christophe

[JimZ]

You guys move too fast....But i like it that way.

Scoreboard update!

24 points - JimZ

17 points - Harvey

15 points - UB6365

15 points - Christophe

13 points - Hauptmann

8 points - Gunner 1

3 points - Valter

2 points - kapten_windu

1 point - Tachel

1 point - K2009

Question 99 above!!

Jim

[ub6365]

Heinz Hoffmann

Scharnhorst Order ???

[Christophe]

UB, congratulations !! :jumping:

You get the point... and the right to ask for Question #100 !!

Heinz Hoffmann (November 2, 1910, - December 2, 1985) was Minister of National Defense in the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic, and since October 2, 1973 Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Hoffmann came from a working class family. After attending school in Mannheim, he spent the 1925 - 1930 period learning to be an engine fitter at MWM (Motoren Werke Mannheim AG). From 1926 to 1930 he was a member of the Young Communist League of Germany, followed by membership in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). During this time Hoffman served several short prison sentences for participating in demonstrations and fights.

After the rise of the Nazi party in 1933, he was faced with a warrant for his arrest. Hoffmann fled Germany and immigrated to the Soviet Union by the way of Switzerland and Czechoslovakia. Until 1945 he used the alias “Heinz Roth,” which is the reason why he used Heinz as his first name rather than his given name Karl-Heinz. In the Soviet Union he attended the International Lenin School in Moscow.

For a few months in 1936 and 1937 he attended military school in Ryazan conducted by the Frunze Military Academy in preparation for service with the Republican forces in Spain. Upon graduation he was given the rank of Lieutenant. From 1937-1938 he served in the 11th International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He was a Battery Commissar in the Hans Beimler Battalion. He took command of the Battalion after his commander was wounded. He himself was severely wounded in the legs and abdomen by infantry gunfire south of Quijorna. Hoffmann was hospitalized in Madrid for a few months then later moved to a clinic in Eaubone, France where he recovered from 1938 to 1939. From April 1939 to November 1940, he was on rest and convalescence in Soviet Union.

Starting in March 1941, he attended a special course of the Comintern in Pushkino, northwest of Moscow. In addition to an extensive social science training he was also taught military subjects. This included training in rear area sabotage with other German exiles. He was medically disqualified from training after parachute jumps aggravated his earlier leg wounds. Hoffman was then selected to work in German prisoner of war camps after assisting the Soviet NKVD in interrogating prisoners. From 1942 to 1944, Hoffmann was a teacher at the Antifascist School, first in the territory of Gorky, and later in Krasnogorsk. By 1945, Hoffman headed the Party School No. 12 in Moscow.

In January 1946, he returned to Berlin and was initially on the personal staff of Wilhelm Pieck, and later the staff of Walter Ulbricht. From 1950 until his death, Heinz Hoffmann was a member of parliament and was a candidate or a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party. In 1952 he joined the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party. Hoffmann belonged to the Politburo of the Socialist Unity Party from 1973 until his death in 1985.

Starting in 1949, Hoffmann was involved in the establishment of the East German armed forces. He was first Vice President of the German Administration of the Interior and Head of the Department of Political Culture with the rank of Inspector General. In 1950, Hoffmann was appointed Head of the Main Administration for Training (HVA), the immediate predecessor of the Barracked People's Police. During the establishment of Kasernierte Volkspolizei (KVP), he was on July 1, 1952 made their chief being promoted Lieutenant-General on October 1952. Hoffmann held that position until 1955. From 1955 to 1957 Hoffmann studied at the Voroshilov General Staff Academy of the Soviet Union. Due to this training he was not in East Germany when the new National People's Army was founded.

After his return from the Soviet Union, he served from 1957 to 1960 as the first Deputy Minister of National Defense, and from 1958 to 1960 also serving as the Chief of Staff. In 1959 he was promoted to Colonel-General and in 1961 to Army General. In 1960, Hoffmann was promoted as the successor of Willi Stoph as Minister of National Defense of the GDR serving in that position until his death. With the elevation to the office of the Minister, he also became a member of the National Defense Council.

After his death, the 9th Armored Division of the East German Army was named after Heinz Hoffmann, as well as the Grottkauer Straße in Berlin district of Hellersdorf was renamed Heinz-Hoffmann-Straße.

Awards and honors :

• 1954: Vaterländischer Verdienstorden
  
• 1965: Order of the Red Banner
  
• 1970: Order of Karl Marx
  
• 1974: Order of Lenin
  
• 1974: Scharnhorst Order
  
• 1975: Hero of the German Democratic Republic
  
• 1975: Honorary doctorate degree (Dr. h.c.) in philosophy from the Party University “Karl Marx”
  
• 1980: Hero of the German Democratic Republic
  
• 1980: Order of Karl Marx
  
• 1980: Order of Lenin
  
• 1985: Order of Karl Marx
  

Ch.

[Christophe]

And the Scharnhorst Order...

Ch.

[Christophe]

In fact, the list of awards previously posted is not complete, as we can see on the picture an Order of the October Revolution...

Ch.

[JimZ]

Scoreboard update!

24 points - JimZ

17 points - Harvey

16 points - UB6365

15 points - Christophe

13 points - Hauptmann

8 points - Gunner 1

3 points - Valter

2 points - kapten_windu

1 point - Tachel

1 point - K2009

The honour of asking question 100 goes to UB6535!!

CONGRATULATIONS on reaching the 100th Question.....!!! :jumping:

And now.....to whom will the honour of answering the 100th question go to?????

Jim

Edited December 8, 2011 by JimZ

[ub6365]

I would like to transfer honour of asking 100th question to JIMZ...

Edited December 8, 2011 by ub6365

[JimZ]

Thanks UB6365. I am actually very flattered and will accept the honour. I'll try to come up with something interesting shortly.......

Jim :cheers:

[JimZ]

So, many thanks to UB6365 who has passed on the honour to ask the 100th question to me We usually apply a rule that does not allow the person passing up a question from replying to it. However, given that this is the 100th question, and given that its as much of an honour to ask it, as it is to answer, this rule will not apply and the question can therefore be answered by anybody, including UB6365.

And without much more ado....and hopefully something for you to chew on......

QUESTION 100

Born in the year when the second world war broke out I would die 24 years later.

Before I turned 20 I would get to the USSR where I would stay for three years - I was rather disullioned.

I would remain a near nobody for a year and a half after leaving the USSR, till one day that would cast me in infamy and shroud me in conspiracy.

1) What is my full name?

2) What was the nature of my stay in the USSR?

3) In which city did I live and where did I work in the USSR?

4) What did I write about life in USSR?

5) What did I do that would make me infamous and shroud me in conspiracy?

6) How did I die?

Good hunting!!

Jim

Edited December 8, 2011 by JimZ