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Award
Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Hrdina Československé socialistické Republiky
Type
Medal signifying award of the title Hero of the Czechoslovak Republic
Awarded for
extraordinary merits for the republic connected with a heroic achievement or repeated achievements
Presented by
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Status
no longer awarded
Established
1955
First awarded
25 November 1965
Last awarded
7 January 1983
Total
31
The title of the Hero of the Czechoslovak Republic was established in 1955. The name of the title was changed to Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1960. It was awarded 31 times to some Czechoslovak war heroes, to the general and later president Ludvík Svoboda, to the Czechoslovak president Gustáv Husák, to the Czech cosmonaut Vladimír Remek, to various Soviet generals and marshals, and to Leonid Brezhnev. The never-awarded 32nd medal has been given to the Czech National Museum.
The title was awarded by the government to honor extraordinary merits for the republic connected with a heroic achievement or repeated achievements.
The Hero was always also awarded the Order of Klement Gottwald in similar fashion to how a Hero of the Soviet Union was also always awarded the Order of Lenin, a Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria was also awarded the Order of Georgi Dimitrov, and a Hero of the German Democratic Republic was also awarded the Order of Karl Marx.
The medal was worn on the left breast side above all the Czechoslovak awards or their ribbons, always in natura and in front of the Gold Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor (Czechoslovakia) [cs].
The title was canceled as a result of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, when the government of the new Czech and Slovak Federative Republic on 7 October 1990 enacted a law setting up a new, de-communized honors system.[1] No new awards of the title have been permitted thenceforth, but existing awardees were (and are) still permitted to wear their medals.[2]
^"The Act on the State Decorations of the CSFR". Prague Castle: President of the Czech Republic. 2 October 1990. Retrieved 7 February 2024. Section 17: Cancelled have been as follows: [...] Governmental Decree No. 6/1955 Coll., on the Provision of Awarding the Title "Hero of the Czechoslovak Republic" ...
^"The Act on the State Decorations of the CSFR". Prague Castle: President of the Czech Republic. 2 October 1990. Retrieved 7 February 2024. Section 18: No Orders, Medals or other similar Awards in accordance with the existing legal provisions may be awarded or conferred from the effective date of this Act; this shall not affect the right to wear insignia of these Orders, Medals or other similar Awards.
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