Ed_Haynes

I suspect that, much as is still done in other similar situations today, allied Soviet officers were "attached" or "embedded" as "advisors" to various "friendly" units.

Nice one, for sure. And service record too!

(where is the :envy: smiley?)

So, back to the issue at hand, I guess the next step is for some one (or some ones) to put in for complete research on these known mult-Red Banner chaps. It will be a very different matter if their seventh and eighth Red Banners are numbered XXXXXX or if they are numbered XX or even just X? That should tell us what we want to know?

Awards records cards on these chaps would reveal all? Or at least something??

It's for me the first time I see an award card that was typed.

Really? See:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=12356

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11059

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11060

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11063

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10376

By the era of the Fourth Afghan War it seems typewriters were fairly common?

Nice NICE one, Gerd! Someday, we DO have to learn Russian, eh?

Congratulations on the new arrival, Ron. Lovely!

Yes, the #1 destination for Soviet phaleristic museums. See other threads for more pictures. Especially: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9297

Yes, this poison has been out there for some time. Absent a serial number, especially if one engraves FAKE in that spot, this fecal matter may have a place in collecting. With numbers, it is just poisonous dreck.

I too am a former child of the Cold War. My second month in school was spent under a desk practicing the absurdly ineffective anti-nuclear blast "drills" of those days.

I was always an "elderly" child, having played among the detritus and leavings of the two World Wars, but the Cold War was Current Events as I grew up.

For those too younfg to have lived through the 1970s (congratulations of a dubious sort as we all relive them starting next month) that was a nadir when-- incredible as this may seem now-- Leonid Brezhnev actually believed that he was WINNING that "war."

From surrogate conflicts, and the annual flight of "Bears" over my coastline, came a respect for Soviet "Vlast," and my historian's curiosity as to how and why that system worked.

As for collecting, the disappearaance of affordable Imperial German items not already in my collection in the mid 1990s, the appearance of post-Union awards that had NEVER been available before, and the sheer lustrous beauty of Soviet enamelwork drew me in. that was before any research became possible.

And of course, if any nation and any people deserve the credit for holding a line against global tyranny, it is the peoples of the former Soviet Union. Researching their awards for wartime heroism iss an honor, I hope, to their memory.

And an example to a generation of Vichyites of self-sacrifice and determination sadly lacking in today's western world.

As usual, Rick pretty much sums it up for me too.

The research capability makes much of the interest here, making Soviet awards (numbered) closer to my "first love", Indo-British awards (named). If you can't (don't) research it, it is just a pretty thing.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Bazhanyuk

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10002

Documented and researched MMM for Egypt, 1972.

A nice pair with the Red Banner I have for Egypt: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8627&st=40 .

Agreed, Jan. But it does give us something to think about (in a sub-forum that badly needs such things ).

Yes, it is the arts collaborative whatever boys. The screwback does differ substantially from the familiar unnumbered "eared" screwbacks commonly found on the early Khalkingol badges. At the very least, something to think about. Has anyone ever seen this pattern of screwback on any Mongolian (or other) awards before??

(Maybe I should be asking this over at http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5087 ??)

Dear Ed

Congratulations! You got a nice collection. You have to admit it is a fantasy order.

This order 1893 once in my hand. Do you buy from NJ dealer?

Tang Si

Yes, Tang Si, from our friend in NJ.

A pretty one that just oozes history. Research time!

Based on that badge shown over there, we may now have to show:

Type 1 (mirror reverse, numbered on screwnut, maker on screwnut ?MOAX?) Low = ???/High = 117776

Type 2.1 (mirror reverse)

Type 2.2 (mirror reverse, extra high quality)

Type 3.1 (flat reverse)

Type 3.2 (flat reverse, silver)

Thanks!!!! Fascinating!!!!!!!!!!!

Over on another thread

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13591&st=13

an early Khalkingol badge with a numbered screwplate has been discussed. FYI.

The Khalkingol badge.

Numbered to the screwplate: 117,776.

What?? Numbered on the screwplate??

Details, scans, please!!!

That will be very interesting to those of us over at http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5087

And . . .

Oh well, the remainder (translated):

Part 3:

Part 2

Service record? An interesting career, methinks. May I xerox the translation . . . .

Part 1:

Captain Yegor Yefimovich Mosin

Just a simple little Red Star.

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13653

The moral? Do research on EVERYTHING!

The remainder of the stack of records make clear:

This Red Star awarded 30 December 1956 for long service to Captain Yegor Yefimovich Mosin, Chief of the Officer's Club, Central Office of the 6th Railway Brigade Administration, 9th Railway Corps. Born 25 December 1918, Volkova Slobodka village, Mikhailovsky district, Kursk region, peasant, warehouse worker. Entered military 28 October 1939, later became commissar [zampolit] and spent his career thus. Fought in Finnish War (25 Jan 1940-13 March 1940) and in Great Patriotic war (Southern Front, 22 June 1941-31 June 1942, wounded at Sinelnikovo [major railway junction] 8 January 1942). Party member since February 1943. Transferred to reserve 23 January 1959.

Full awards:

- Red Star (this one)

- Military Merit Medal (1950)

- Victory Over Germany (1945)

- XXX Anniversary Armed Forces (1948)

- 40th Anniversary Armed Forces (1957)

- And, perhaps, a second MilitaryMerit Medal?

Much more information in the file, which can be posted as needed.

His photo, unfortunately cropped in xeroxing: