Medalla de la Campaña de Rusia

Blue Division Medal (Aguila de San Andres)
Medal and Ribbon
Awarded by  Nationalist Spain
Type	Campaign medal
Eligibility	Spanish Forces
Awarded for	Volunteer Service in WW2
Campaign	Soviet Union
Description
Clasps	None
Statistics
Established	9 November 1943

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 (span.), was in total composed of 47,000 men, sent by Francisco Franco to aid the Third Reich, as a way to payback Adolf Hitler's help with the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War.

Description

• The obverse is a Nationalist Spain Eagle with a 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 Kremlin surrounded with chains and the inscription "Rusia 1941"

References

1. ^ Carlos Caballero Jurado (2009). Atlas ilustrado de la Divisin̤ Azul(Illustrated Atlas of the Blue Division). Susaeta Ediciones. ISBN 8467702028. 

See also

• Blue Division Medal (anti-bolshevism)
• Blue Division
• Spanish Civil War