Gerd Becker

Hello and welcome, Ilja and also from me best regards to your grandfather. If you have some time, please tell us more about him. best, Gerd

Thanks a million, Andreas

I am looking for the following orders: Order of the Red Star Nr. 922.290 Order of the Red Star Nr. 476.613 Order of the Red Star Nr. 3.549.323 Order of the Great Patriotic War 2nd class Nr. 464.475 Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st class Nr. 59.329 Order of Lenin Nr. 306.506

Hi Andreas, unfortunately the pictures were all 0 KB and there was nothing i could save on my harddisk. Could you send them again, if possible? It seems, going by the titles of the pictures i should be VERY sorry. Thanks for the excellent info to my question I will answer your email now. Gerd

Hi everyone, i made a Websearch, but could not find valuable info to this question. Can someone tell me, which the 20 Autonomous Republics and the 8 Autonomous Areas were or provide a link to this topic? Any info is much appreciated. Thanks in advance best, Gerd

Ahem, i just ran into the Communist-Forum, posted that in record time and logged out again in less than 250 Milliseconds! I didn?t even look at other forums. I promise... Thanks so much for explanations and the list with the ranks. I wasn?t sure about some of them, so thats clear now.

No, we will not! Thanks, Rick. Gerd

I wonder, if this could be the reason? What do you think? Gerd

Ok, a few questions crossed my mind: Commander of Food and Forage? What is that? Did he got this position because he didn?t well? Or because he changed the unit and had to start in a lower position? Or was that an important position? On Service Staff, what does that mean? The active staff? Chief of Staff or Commander of Staff translates with the german Stabschef or Chef des Stabes? Commander of Base Service was the Commander of the Base Service-Staff? So he were in the Army and switched to the Air Force in 1937? When you have a little spare-time, could you write down his ranks in Russian, if possible? I try to find the german equivalents to them. Thanks Gerd

Rick, i posted this on another forum and someone said this:

Citation lower half

Wow, this is a suprise. I wonder, what the reason may be. Stalin what a persecution maniac. This got to be an interesting story for my website. Thanks, Rick. Gerd

ebay Italy I have to keep that in mind Nice Jacket, Andreas

I have asked Vadim to take a look on this. He will hopefully chime in and enlighten us on the dark parts. Edit: I have cutted them in two pieces, maybe they are better to read now. The lower part is further down the thread.

Yep unfortunately true, Andreas. I told you, its not good. I hope, on the next research its better. best, Gerd

Great. These should not be impossible to find. Rick, i have the other scans ready. Give me a sign and i will send them to you. Gerd

Here is the picture of our Comrade Lykov. I am sorry, thats the best, i can do.

Hi Andreas, thanks, you have seen this one, haven?t you? He got, beside his Red-Star an OGPW 1st class Nr. 59329 and the Medals for Victory over Germany and Defense of Leningrad. Unfortunately there was only a very very dark picture of our man. I will post it here, but he will remain a ghost, as there is really not much to see on that photo. Rick, you are the best! Thanks, mate. Gerd

Rick, thats great. Thank you so much. One question to the visor: With scrambled eggs you mean the silver squiggled stuff right on the "sunscreen"? Forgive me, i don?t know the right terms for uniforms and headgear. So he made a decent career and even made it to Major and Divisional Commander. Thats great. Rick, don?t strain your eyes too much with these blurry copies. They are already packed up to be shipped to you soon. Thanks again, my friend. I owe you. Gerd

Hello, this is the second Order, for which i got the research today. The translation is in progress and more Information will be posted soon. Order of the Red Banner Number 369.473, awarded on the 15.11.1950 as a Long-Service award for 20 years service.

Hi everyone, i got the Research for two of my orders today and one of them is an Order of the Red-Star with screwpost-base and a quite low number. The translation of the research is in progress and will be posted soon in this thread. Here is the Order of the Red Star Number 217.937, awarded on the 01.10.1943.

Fantastic minis everyone. I recognize one or two, which were in my collection and some of you guys have more of my former minis. Tom, the three-piece Mini-EK is AWESOME. I saw it, but too late, otherwise i would have bought it. Excellent Piece and only the second, i have ever seen.

Chet, like i said in private, that is a fantastic and rare Medal-bar. Congrats to this outstanding find. Gerd

Fantastic badges, Andreas. If Rick is this excited, you must have a real treasure

Bob, this is one of the most wonderful soviet awards. Its an award mainly awarded to Junior Officers and Company Commanders. Its made from sterling silver with hot baked wonderful red enamel. I hope to own one myself one day. This one is special, because its researched and Rick has lots of information of the awardee. I am sure, he will start a thread about this one day. Rick, thanks so much Gerd