The Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction of the Soviet Union. It was awarded 12,775 times. Due to the large size of the list, it has been broken up into multiple pages.
This makes it quieter and more powerful due to better gas containment. There are considerable trade-offs: the Nagant has an extremely heavy trigger pull, over 20 pounds in double-action and around 15 even in single-action, and the mechanism…