The Medalla de la campaña de Rusia ("Medal of the Russian Campaign"), commissioned 9 November 1943, was awarded by Nationalist Spain to those Spanish volunteers who served at the Russian front during World War II, as members of the Blue Division.[1] This force, attached to the Heer of the Wehrmacht, known as the 250th Infantry Division, was in total composed of 47,000 men, sent by Francisco Franco to aid the Third Reich, as a way to pay back Adolf Hitler's help during the Spanish Civil War.
The obverse is a Nationalist Spain Eagle with an Iron Cross, with the swastika, above the Falange's symbol, all surrounded by a laurel circle and a crown on the top
On the reverse the Novgorod's Kremlin surrounded with chains and the inscription "Rusia 1941"
References
^Carlos Caballero Jurado (2009). Atlas ilustrado de la Divisin̤ Azul(Illustrated Atlas of the Blue Division). Susaeta Ediciones. ISBN84-677-0202-8.
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