Heroes of the Soviet Union Stamp Set

This set of six stamps features six men and women named as Heroes of the Soviet Union. The stamps were issued between 1965 and 1969, and primarily featured intelligence agents and communist partisans who were killed during World War II Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov - 4 Kopeks - Kuznetsov was an NKVD intelligence agent and partisan who operated in Nazi-occupied Ukraine during World War II. He is credited with personally killing six high-ranking German soldiers and civilians in occupied Ukraine before he himself was killed in March 1944. He was named a Hero of the Soviet Union and even has a minor planet (2233 Kuznetsov) named after him.   Imants Sudmalis - 4 Kopeks - Sudmalis joined the Communist Union of the Youth of Latvia at age 16 and later worked as an editor and partisan. After Germany invaded and occupied Latvia in June 1941, he fought in defense of Riga and later was in charge of an underground Komsomol resistance cell. In February 1944, he was executed by the Germans and in 195