Liberation of Warsaw

Date: 9th June 1945
Campaign: World War II
Reciptent:
Medal Composite: Brass
Number Issued: 690,000

Established by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 9th June 1945. Awarded to all servicemen of the Soviet Army, Navy, Ministry of Internal Affairs Troops (MVD) and State Security Committee Troops (KGB) who participated in the liberation of Warsaw from 14 January 1945 until 17 January 1945. On 1 August 1944, Polish Home Army General Tadeusz Komorowski ordered the Home Army to attack the German garrison. Fighters used molotov cocktails or captured German weapons to fight German artillery and aircraft. The Red Army were on the outskirts of Warsaw and halted, letting the fighting continue between the ill-equipped Polish Home Army and the German garrison for 66 days before taking Warsaw in 1945.