Soviet Ambassador Dimitri Chuvakhin pinned two medals for valor on Shlomo Rigler of Natanya, a World War II veteran of the Red Army, in the first such award to former Soviet citizens in Israel. Rigler was a private in tank unit which fought in General Zhukov’s forces from Auschwitz to Breslau. He Joined the Red Army after it liberated Breslau, later settling in Israel.
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