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Hello, your Glory is a "smooth" clock face variaiton. There a eight or nine different variations of the 3rd class Glory oder. Most of them have a different time on the clock. Have a look at the webside of www.mondvor.narod.ru Your variation appear in the serial number range: ~130.000 to ~ 340.000. best regards Andreas

USAirforce, you medal looks like a fake. best regards Andreas

Do you have better / bigger pictures and what is the weight of the medal ? best regards Andreas

The Red Star looks okay to me, just bad pictures and a eavyly worn piece. regards Andreas

I think it?s as nine. Looks like the engraver made the horizontal bar latest. regards Andreas

great citation for street fighting in Berlin, thanks for sharing best regards Andreas

Hello Paul, looks like a fake medal to me. But better and bigger picture of the medal (only the medal without ribbon) is needed. I added a picture of the lower ribbon of the medal to compare. A genuine one on the right and a fake on the left. Your lower ribbon on the medal looks like the first one. best regards Andreas

From what I see, the Order of Glory 774.664 looks okay in my oppinion. For the Order of Glory 2 class better pictures are needed with the clock tower. regards Andreas

Red Stars for fighting in and around Berlin 1.835.889 - 29.06.1945 1th Belorussian Front 2.171.986 - 06.07.1945 2nd Guards Tank Army regards Andreas

Great citation, what is the serial number of the Red Star? best regards Andreas

Yes, you are right. He has two Red Banners without figures. You can see a lot of photos with persons who have two Red Banner and the second one has no "2". best regards Andreas

Impressive award group. Thanks for sharing. regards Andreas

Interesting award citation ! Thanks for posting. best regards Andreas

I ?ll have a military merit medal awarded to a medical worker, who worked in the " Mobile Field Hospiotal No. 60" in Stalingrad 1942/43. Is there anything about the structure or organisation (strengh) of a mobile field hospital in the book? I couldn?t find anything about the structure or organisation of a field hospital in the web. best regards Andreas

Master of Combine Harvesting Issued by Narkomzag (Narkomat of Agricultural Procurement) which existed from 1938 to 1946. Original screw plate with "Vsekokhudozhnik, Moscow" makers mark. Around 5.000 of these badges have been issued.

Hunyadi, it?s a nice original Order of the Glory and the filled 1 can be carefully reengraved. Here is a total ugly copy of an Order of Glory sold a longer time ago on ebay. best regards Andreas

and the reverse.

The Table medal shows Peter the Great 1709, in memory for 275 years battle of Poltawa Artist: I. Postol 1989 - Leningrad Mint - 800 pieces minted. According to the theme this medal should be minted in the year 1984 (1709 + 275) and not 1989. Made out of brass. I wonder who got these rare medal. regards Andreas

The first military merit medals looks okay. But he serial number 734.287 is to high for the little square suspension. The change to 5 sided big suspension is somewhere around 470.000. regards Andreas

Doc, in my honest oppinion it is a total loss of money, if they are offered as genuine to you. If they are cheap and you want to use them to decorate a uniform it is a good deal. I think all three suspensions or at least parts of them are fakes. The labour medal is a fake. It is made from a later version without number. For the two military merit medals I have no clue. Better pictures are needed. If the medal with hand engraved serial number is okay, it could be a good deal. They are very rare. best regards Andreas

Supreme Soviet badge

As I know this badge was founded by the central comitee of the KOMSOMOL for the virgin soil land reclamation in the 60?s and 70?s. best regards Andreas

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Awarded from 1944 to 1954. I guess, only a few thousands were made and awarded. Here are some pictures from books. regards Andreas

From WIKIPEDIA Komsomol (Russian: Комсомол) is a syllabic abbreviation word, from the Russian Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodiozhi (Коммунистический союз молодёжи), or "Communist Union of Youth". The organization was established on October 29, 1918. Since 1922 the full official name in Russian was Vsesoyuzny Leninskiy Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodyozhi (VLKSM) (Всесоюзный Ленинский Коммунистический Союз Молодёжи (ВЛКСМ) Overview Komsomol served as the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the youngest members being fourteen years old, the upper limit for an age of rank and file being 28, while Komsomol functionaries could be older. Younger children could join the allied Pioneers organisation. Komsomol had little direct influence on the Communist Party, and on the government of the Soviet Union. But Komsomol played an important role as a mechanism for teaching the values of the CPSU in the young, and as an organ for introducing the young to the political domain. Along with these purposes, the organisation served as a highly mobile pool of labour and political activism, with the ability to move to areas of high-priority at short notice. Active members received privileges and preferences in promotion. For example, Yuri Andropov, CPSU General Secretary for a short time following Leonid Brezhnev, reached political heights by means of the Komsomol organisation of Karelia. At its height, in the 1970s, Komsomol had tens of millions of members; around two-thirds of the present adult population of Russia is believed to have once been a member. During the revolution, the Bolsheviks showed no interest in establishing or maintaining a youth wing. However, by 1918 the first Congress was held under the patronage of the Bolshevik Party, despite the organisations having not entirely coincident membership or beliefs. By the time of the second Congress, a year later, however, the Bolsheviks had, in effect, taken control of the organisation, and it was soon formally established as the youth wing of the party. In the early years, the organisation was initialized as RKSM and RLKSM. The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika and glasnost, finally recognized that Komsomol was no longer serving the interests of the youth; the calibre of Komsomol leadership was low, and these, along with other structural problems, could no longer be hidden in the new, more open, atmosphere. Komsomol had long been a haven for conservatism and bureaucracy, and had always been largely politically impotent, properties then at odds with the times. At the radical Twentieth Congress of the Komsomol the rules of the organisation were massively altered to reflect a more market-oriented approach. However, the reforms of the Twentieth Congress eventually destroyed the organisation, with fragmentation, lack of clarity-of-purpose, and waning of interest, membership and calibre of membership?there was simply no longer a need for the organisation. During the early stages of perestroika, when private enterprise was cautiously introduced, Komsomol was given privileges in opening businesses, with a motivation to give youth a better chance. At the same time, many Komsomol leaders entered and headed the Russian Regional and State Anti-Monopoly Committees. As a result, many Komsomol activists were given an advantageous foot on the business ladder?Mikhail Khodorkovsky being a prominent example. Folklore was quick to put together a motto: "Komsomol is a school of Capitalism", hinting at Lenin's "Trade unions are a school of Communism". The organ of the Komsomol, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, survived the organization.