Tag #142295 - Interview #95224 (Ferdinand Chernovich)

I was awarded with the medal for Military Merits [27] after Kursk battle. I got it in autumn, 1943. It was written in my order citation that I demonstrated discipline and valor. Then I was told that there was a decree by the minister of defense not to give high class military awards to the representatives of certain nationalities such as Jews, Chechens, Tartars. I do not know whether that information was true. It was mostly likely that people were included in the list to be awarded with the Red Banner Order [28], but in fact they were given the award of a lower class.