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Soviet Corporal Aleksandr Pavlovich Dikhtyar
Ed_Haynes replied to Ed_Haynes's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
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Soviet Corporal Aleksandr Pavlovich Dikhtyar
Ed_Haynes replied to Ed_Haynes's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
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Republic of Cuba Medalla "Combatiente Internacionalista" (II)
Ed_Haynes replied to Stogieman's topic in Republic of Cuba
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Republic of Cuba Medalla "Combatiente Internacionalista" (II)
Ed_Haynes replied to Stogieman's topic in Republic of Cuba
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Never too late to educate your niece as to the correct names (in English) of these things: Sukhbaatar Order. Size? See comparisons in numerous threads here. For example, the Byamba Gezegt or Suuigiyn Gombo groups? http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14479 http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2746 Copies? If I knew, I wouldn't say.
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The peacekeeping medal has already bveen posted and discussed, see: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=16218 I shall merge these threads.
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Duke Baron Count
Ed_Haynes replied to Bear's topic in Great Britain: Research, Documentation & History
Again, we still don't know the "when" and "where" of this question. Ought we assume automatically that every question is "German"??!? -
Duke Baron Count
Ed_Haynes replied to Bear's topic in Great Britain: Research, Documentation & History
As I said, Dave: Such a vague question is hard to engage, even with the notorious sloppy inaccuracies of 'Wikipedia'. -
While this is , the movie is available on DVD (at least in English) and -- while not as good as the stage play on which it is based -- reveals all the ambiguioties of a conflict like Afghanistan '79 ( or . . . ???).
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Soviet Moscow Sculpture Park
Ed_Haynes replied to order_of_victory's topic in Russia: Soviet: Other Militaria
True! Regardless of how outsiders see "history", how people deal with (or deny) their recent history is fascinating. Having gone, recently, directly from Delhi (where history from the British period is an inconvenient irrelevant embarassment -- except for cricket) to Moscow (where history is denied and disguised unless it is Tsarist) to Ulanbaatar (where history is accepted with a shrug) was powerful. -
Duke Baron Count
Ed_Haynes replied to Bear's topic in Great Britain: Research, Documentation & History
While these (in various translations) differ in meaning and substance over time and space, you may want to see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nobility http://www.chinet.com/~laura/html/titles02.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nobility etc. . . . . While Wikipedia -- as I tell my students CONSTANTLY -- is not 100% reliable, it is not a bad place to start. If you don't have a library nearby. -
Soviet Moscow Sculpture Park
Ed_Haynes replied to order_of_victory's topic in Russia: Soviet: Other Militaria
I heard a range of opinions, from "But we're (all) rich now!" to "But Marx was right, Russia couldn't have had a real revolution without undergoing the suffering of capitalism, and that is what we're doing now." In various parts of the former USSR, things seem to range from a "just wait, people will eventually remember that Stalin was good" attitude to a joyous and quite shameless resurgence of unreconstructed Nazis, crawling out from under their slimy rocks under cover of resurgent "nationalism". It will be interesting to watch. Whether it is a Jewish or Chinese curse, the old quote can be recalled: "May you live in interesting times." The statues sre still there, some of them. -
Thei is a US Air Force award (yet another US Air Force award!), the "Air & Space Campaign Medal". Though NOT for Iraq. See: http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2534 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_and_Space_Campaign_Medal
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See also: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2453