Gold Star

The Gold Star medal (Russian: медаль «Золотая Звезда») is a special insignia that identifies recipients of the title "Hero" in the Soviet Union and some of its allies, and several post-Soviet states.

Read more about Gold Star:  Soviet Origin, Post-Soviet Successors, Similar Titles/Medals/Orders in Other Countries

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or star:

    “Don different from those regal Dons!
    With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,
    Who shout and bang and roar and brawl
    The Absolute across the hall,”
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

    “The Star that bids the Shepherd fold,
    Now the top of Heav’n doth hold,
    And the gilded Car of Day,
    His glowing Axle doth allay
    In the steep Atlantick stream,”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)