Ed_Haynes

Document, part 1.

For those who love OPW wierdness (even in the 85s):

Corporal Aleksandr Pavlovich Dikhtyar, Horse Scout Platoon, 1127th Rifle Regiment., 337th Lubyansk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Order of Bogdan Khemelnitsky Rifle Division, 27th Army

An interesting post is getting dangerously political. Be careful, please.

The interior. Said to have been awarded to him as a Police Sergeant-Major by the Kiev MOOP in April 1968.

And the somewhat more uncommon Jubilee Medal for 50 Years of the Soviet Militia.

Stamp. Also said to be 114th Guards Long Range Bomber Regiment.

Victory over Japan.

Closup on stamp. Said to be 114th Guards Long Range Bomber Regiment.

Polar defense.

Part 2. Unnumbered 1952.

Document, part 1.

Not yet fully researched, but whatever I can get will come along here. Guards Senior Sergeant (later Police Sergeant-Major) Aleksandr Petrovich Panfilenko. As always, any and all information is appreciated.

And, apparently, to a "foreign friend"? (Has his [?] medal, but we've seem those.)

A familiar medal. The unfamiliar:

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.

The peacekeeping medal has already bveen posted and discussed, see: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=16218 I shall merge these threads.

Again, we still don't know the "when" and "where" of this question. Ought we assume automatically that every question is "German"??!?

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 . . . ???).

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.

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.

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

See also: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2453