Ed_Haynes

Ed,

His patronymic is Petrovich.

Regards,

slava1stclass

Thanks, "slava"!

Ed,

His last name is Dekhtyar.

Regards,

slava1stclass

There is apparently great variability as to how to render his Ukranian name into Russian. As my very unhappy internet connection allows today, let me get all the documents up and we can -- I hope -- resolve his name.

The (familiar) OPW2 certificate.

Part 2.

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"??!?

Wikipedia is as reliable (or unreliable) as its users make it. The German nobility article above, for example, is not all that well written or clear. It says "The nobility was divided in various subgroups" and then lists four in a row, but the first two and the second two are totally different concepts and overlap each other. Some Uradel were Hochadel, and the others Niedere Adel. Some (maybe all) Briefadel were Niedere Adel, since sovereigns, even in microstates of the Holy Roman and German Empires, had noble lineages going well back (even if that required creativity).

The list in that article of examples of titles leaves out some less common ones, like Vogt, and variations of the ones there, like Kurf?rst, Markgraf and Reichsfreiherr. And there is no real precedence, as this varied heavily. Members of sovereign houses (Hochadel) generally ranked ahead of non-sovereigns (Niedere Adel), as their names indicate, but within the category of sovereigns, things were confusing. A prince normally outranks a duke, but a F?rst or Prinz of a sovereign house like Lippe or Liechtenstein did not outrank a duke. Also, within the lower nobility, I believe mediatized princes (members of former sovereign houses which had lost their sovereignty) outranked non-mediatized princes, no matter their actual titles.

By the way, Junker, listed there as a category of lesser nobility, is considered a derogatory term by Junkers themselves.

As I said, Dave:

. . . While these (in various translations) differ in meaning and substance over time and space, . . . .

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.