Samand Siabandov, Soviet Red Army writer (died 1989)

Samand Siabandov

Samand Aliyevich Siabandov was a Soviet writer, military officer and politician of Kurdish origin who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union during the Soviet war against Nazi Germany.

Red Army

Soviet army and air force from 1918 to 1946

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars to oppose the military…