Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I te tau 1968, i puta a Suvorov me te honore mai i te Kura Whakahaere Rererangi Whero o Frunze i Kiev. I taua tau ano, i mahi ia i Chernivtsi hei rangatira o te roopu tank me te 145th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment, 66th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division, o te Carpathian Military District i Ukraine, i uru atu ki te whakaekenga a te Kawenata o Warsaw ki Czechoslovakia, Operation Danube
He aha? Ko tenei wheako e korerohia ana i roto i tana pukapuka 1981 "The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army".