Bryan

This is indeed a sad news. I wish him a speedy recovery!

Christian, I guess it is not correct for this kind of medal. What I find interesting is that all the jubilee medals and few others have this kind of ribbon. So it has nothing to do with monarchist-oriented comrade. I guess it's just the tradition mixed with the Russian tradition with the 5 sided suspensions. Maybe all medals that first came from Moscow during WWII were with 5 sided suspensions and then when the IKOM initiated their own medals and design, they switched to the triangle style ribbon. I don't know if there is a real explanation for that, but keep in mind that both ribbon style did coexist in the Ex-Yugoslavia.

It's quite interesting that the Ex-Yugoslavia got the Russian style 5 sided suspensions and the Austro-Hungarian triangle ribbon style. A lot of influence from those 2 super powers.

Wow! What a nice exemple. Anatoly you've got a very nice yugoslavian collection. What can I say more than that :

Welcome Anatoly and thanks for your contribution!

And the booklet.

Reverse

Interesting conversion found on Internet.

Thanks Tom! Welcome to the forum!

I didn't know they are making "fake" partisan orders !?!? Or is it something else ... ?

Anybody has this book?

A nice addition to your collection! Were you lucky enough to get the award booklet?

Is it normal that they are not marked???

Is this the second class? Yugoslavian Security service badge

Waldemar, I will look what I can do with my little scanner and I hope I am able to set it at 300 dpi. I guess I won't have any problem, because it is said that my scanner as a resolution of max. 4800x1200 dpi. Concerning the upload and download from big files I would recommend to use http://www.megaupload.com/ We can upload for free files that are less than 500 MB.

Waldemar, if you need any scans from the community I'm ready to help you with your project and give some scans from my collection. Unfortunetly I have very few information on yougoslavian orders. We would need the help of a native that could provide us some more information. By the way, this looks very nice what you have done.

I can understand why you couldn't choose only one! They are all very nice orders!

Oh man Ed, your groups related to the fall of Berlin are such an eye candy for me !!! One day ... @ Christophe : Thanks for the nice comments!

Ed, here is one interesting group for sale. Sadely it is too expensive for a university student like me. http://www.russianglory.com/Ivanov_a.jpg http://www.russianglory.com/Ivanov_r.jpg

Some more Sovit stuff

Reviewing stand along the Ost-West-Achse (Stra?e des 17. Juni)

A similar picture

Some GI's in Berlin (July 1945)

I thought it would fit here.

What a huge collection you have! Thanks for charing all those nice pictures with the community!