Bryan

Shitt this is a nice citation! Anything related to the Berlin capture is for me : What is the number of the Red Banner?

And the reverse

Sold for $650

Reverse

This one was sold as a Court plaque.

I can only dream about having such group in my collection. Very nice Mr. forum name "Wild Card"!

Is the last badge very light? It does look very nice indeed!

Ummmmh it seems the original award cards and citations were stolen from the archives or is Dave in the archives in Moscow right now?

Christian, I'm rather secessionist and would prefer to be out of the Commenwealth. So I know nothing about British Empire medals.

Ok so it seems this is not in May 1945, but in July 1945 and it seems these are not al Marshals. Thanks for the clarification. I'm sorry, but I have no idea what a CBE? Any clarification would be appreciate.

I'd like to know which crosses are wearing the 3 Marshals at the right from Zhukov and Montgomery. Is that a Polish cross or something like that? Sorry for my ignorance.

Dave, when I was there last summer I saw that on almost all pictures shown with orders, the soldiers were KIA. So there is much chances that those are posthumous ones! By the way, most of the stuff shown at the Stalingrad Panorama museum were in my opinion 100% original. I saw few museum copies out there.

I'm not sure if the late Lenin were that ugly or are these museum copies?

Here are some pictures I made last year at the Stalingrad Panorama museum from a small exhibition on the war in Afghanistan. There was also a tiny section on the war in Chechnya. Hope you enjoy it!

Well to me, Igor doesn't have realistic prices, that's one of the reason I have never bought from him. I don't know if I'm missing a point, but other dealers sell RB Type 2 between $500-$600.

What's so special about this medal for selling so high? http://cgi.ebay.ca/Order-of-Red-Banner-Rus...1QQcmdZViewItem

The one at Checkpoint Charlie

An original Border plaque.

Thank you Dan! I still need a Soviet one for my collection!

Welcome Olivier!

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Again something very interesting that showed up on eBay. ORDER OF THE YUGOSLAV STAR Starting bid US $2,000.00

I don't know if it has to be kept as a secret or not, but I would like to take some time to thank our friend Andriy who started to make English translations of the Mondvor website. Andriy Kuznetsov and Igor Pak have made a lot for the collecting community by creating THE reference website for Soviet phalerists by creating the wonderful site http://mondvor.narod.ru/ I am very happy that this guy is part of our small community at GMIC and I wanted to say a big thank you for taking some of his free time to translate his website in English. I think this will help a lot the non-Russian speakers or other that try hard to learn it, but still have difficulty to read articles in Russian. You will find 2 first articles that have now been translated. THE ORDER OF FRIENDSHIP OF PEOPLES and THE ORDER OF SERVICE TO THE MOTHERLAND IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE USSR. I think we should do a collect for Andriy, so he could take some days off at his job to translate more articles. http://mondvor.topcities.com/