BalkanCollector

Remarkable items! It's strange to see a 100 year old bread.

Great collection and topic Paja! I have few pins and a badge. I'll post the photos soon.

I appreciate the research you're doing Paja. Keep it coming!

Great find Paja! Cheers! 

Hello! 

The fakes exist, although I'm not sure what to think about your piece. Paja should reply very soon and he will be able to tell you more about it.

I know it was not a critique but just a remark.

Thanks for finding the year of the award for Ali Šukrija. Unfortunately, somehow I'm not able to edit my first post, so I can't add Ali Šukrija to 1985 list or recipients. 

Great photos Paja! I've seen some sources that claim different years for the awards so I took these years from one source that seemed the most complete.

Do you have any info about the recipient? 

Very nice! Keep them coming.

Thanks for the info! Very interesting and great looking piece of history! 

Incredible job Larry! 

Looks great! Can you tell us more about it? According to your signature I guess it's from Belgian Congo.

This is probably a Russian medal since the text says "For loyalty to duty and fatherland" in Russian.

Very interesting theme for collecting and very nice medals! Kind of a hidden gem.

The seller said nothing about the authenticity. Only information provided was the basic information about the order.

Thank you for your opinion! Could this, by any chance be the replacement, tombak piece or is it just another copy?

Order of People's Hero sold on ebay auction for 153$+shipping. I'm not sure about the authenticity.

Remarkable photos guys! 

Great photos Paja! Thanks for sharing them!

Thank you very much for the info Gordon!

I've only seen first and second class for sale. If I see the third class I'll let you know.

I've seen some of theses on a local flea market in Zagreb, Croatia, but I didn't know they were rarely awarded. It seems odd that the one that looks like breast star is the lowest grade and the one that's just a cross is the highest.

Here are some photos I took from the internet.

Branko Mamula's ribbon bar.

Ribbon bar of an unknow partisan commander.

And some more random photos.

No problem!

That's really impresive. No wonder the guy got a city named after him.  

Thanks! 

The Order was awarded for "Outstanding achievements in national economy and culture". It was instituted on December 8th, 1948 and it was awarded 125 times. 120 Yugoslav citizens (two of them awarded twice), 1 foreigner, 1 organization and 1 city were awarded with this order. The first one was awarded in 1949 and the last one in 1987. 5 of the recipients of this Order were women.

List of awards from 1948 to 1959 (16 awards):

-          1949 – Moša Pijade

-          1950 – Josip Broz Tito, Boris Kidrič

-          1953 – Miroslav Krleža, People's Youth of Yugoslavia

-          1954 – Aleksandar Ranković, Ivan Regent

-          1955 – Edvard Kardelj, Nikola Kovačević, Božidar Maslarić

-          1956 – Đuro Salaj

-          1957 – Pavle Gregorić, Franc Leskošek

-          1959 – Ivan Karaivanov, Đuro Pucar, Vladimir Simić

List of awards from 1960 to 1969 (22 awards):

-          1960 – Rodoljub Čolaković, Miha Marinko, Josip Vidmar

-          1961 – Vladimir Bakarić, Ivan Gošnjak, Blažo Jovanović, Lazar Koliševski, Ivan Ribar, Petar Stambolić, Mijalko Todorović, Jovan Veselinov, Veljko Vlahović, Svetozar  Vukmanović Tempo

-          1963 – Spasenija Cana Babović, Anka Berus, Tomo Brejc, Karlo Mrazović

-          1965 – Vlajko Begović

-          1968 – Ivan Maček Matija, Koča Popović

-          1969 – Strahil Gigov, Mile Počuča

List of awards from 1970 to 1979 (50 awards):

-          1970 – Ljupčo Arsov, Boris Ziherl

-          1971 – Jovan Beljanski, Kosta Nađ, Milentije Popović, Lidija Šentjurc

-          1972 – Ivo Andrić, Jakov Blažević, Vicko Krstulović, Đoko Pajković

-          1973 – Uglješa Danilović, Cvijetin Mijatović, Vida Tomšič, the city of Skopje

-          1974 – Vlado Janjić, Isa Jovanović, Sergej Krajger, Dušan Petrović Šane

-          1975 – Fadil Hoxha, Andrija Mugoša, Krsto Popivoda, Vidoje Smilevski

-          1976 – Ratko Dugonjić, Josip Hrnčević, Ante Jurjević, Ivan Stevo Krajačić, Nikola Ljubičić, Šefket Maglajić, Mika Špiljak, Veljko Zekonjić

-          1977 – Džemal Bijedić, Josip Cazi

-          1978 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, Oskar Davičo, Rudi Kolak, Slavko Komar, Džavid Nimani, Pavle Savić, Dobrivoje Vidić

-          1979 – Radivoj Davidović Kepa, Stane Dolanc, Stevan Doronjski, Mihailo Lalić, Edvard Kardelj (2nd time posthumous), Moma Marković, Miloš Minić, Đuro Pucar (2nd time posthumous), Mitja Ribičič, Borko Temelkovski, Todor Vujasinović

List of awards from 1980 to 1987 (34 awards):

-          1980 – Milutin Baltić, Antun Biber, Marijan Brecelj Miha, Marijan Cvetković, Franjo Herljević, Pavle Jovičević, Dragoslav Marković, Dobrivoje Radosavljević

-          1981 – Marko Belinić, Bogdan Brecelj, Savo Brković, Peko Dapčević, Drago Gizdić, Veljko Milatović, France Popit, Nikola Sekulić, Mihailo Vraneš

-          1982 – Radovan Vlajković

-          1983 – Angel Čemerski, Dragutin Kosovac, Hamdija Pozderac

-          1984 – Viktor Avbelj, Emerik Blum, Blagoje Taleski

-          1985 – Veselin Đuranović, Dragiša Ivanović, Branko Mamula, Krste Markovski

-          1986 – Dragan Nikolić, Branko Pešić, Ida Sabo, Vlado Šegrt

-          1987 – Danilo Kekić, Vidoje Žarković

List of awards with unknown year (3 awards):

-          Božin Jovanović, Alija Sirotanović, Ali Šukrija

And of course here's the Order: