Bryan

And the reverse.

Here are the differences between the early medal of Bravery and the late one.

Thanks Rusty. I haven't contact him yet, because I have made big purchase this week.

Here's my Partisan Star 2nd Class:

Very nice Rusty!

Wish I had won this auction.

Your Yugoslavian collection is growing rapidly! What's your secret.

Thanks for sharing pictures of your wonderfull awards.

In Deutschland : http://www.leuchtturm.com/

Thank you Rusty for the traduction!

Here is an other pictures of man with Budyonovkas and one with a GTO badge.

Don't know...

I bought a Yugoslavian Partisan 2nd Class last night and applied existing credit + $15 off and it went right through.

Rusty.

Rusty, maybe because you have so many feedbacks you can have this discount and we can't have it. I do not have over 500 feedbacks.

4 amongst the other 8 have been awarded as a birthday present...

Wish I could also get 4 Order of Lenin as a birthday present.

Anyone is able to translate the picture please?

Gerd is the winner for this round, but you forgot to add Prag to your list.

Here are some informations:

When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, Koniev took command of the 19th Army in the Vitebsk region, and waged a series of defensive battles during the Red Army's retreat, first to Smolensk and then to the approaches to Moscow. He commanded the Kalinin Front from October 1941 to August 1942, playing a key role in the fighting around Moscow and the Soviet counter-offensive during the winter of 1941-42. For his role in the successful defence of the Soviet capital Koniev was promoted to Colonel-General.

Koniev held high commands for the rest of the war. He commanded the Western Front until February 1943, the North Western Front February-July 1943, and the Ukrainian Front (later renamed the First Ukrainian Front) from July 1943 until May 1945. During this latter command he participated in the Battle of Kursk, commanding the northern part of the Soviet counter-offensive that successfully enveloped Erich von Manstein's army.

After the victory at Kursk, Koniev's armies liberated Belgorod, Odessa, Kharkov and Kiev from the Germans, and advanced to the Romanian border. For his achievements on the Ukrainian Front Koniev was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in February 1944.

During 1944 Koniev's armies advanced from Ukraine and Byelorussia into Poland and later into Czechoslovakia. By July he had advanced to the Vistula River in central Poland, and was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In September 1944 his forces, now designated the Fourth Ukrainian Front, advanced into Slovakia and helped the Slovak partisans in their rising against German occupation.

In January 1945 Koniev commanded the Soviet forces which launched the massive winter offensive in western Poland, driving the Germans from the Vistula to the Oder river. In southern Poland his forces liberated Krakow. In April his forces, together with the First Byelorussian Front under his competitor, Marshal Georgi Zhukov, forced the line of the Oder and advanced towards Berlin. Koniev's forces entered the city, but Stalin gave Zhukov the honor of capturing the Reichstag and hoisting the Russian flag over Berlin. Koniev was ordered to the south-west, where his forces linked up with elements of the United States army at Torgau and also liberated Prague shortly before the final surrender of the German forces.

Any idea what the guy on the right side is wearing? I'm not familiar with this.

A small research on the net will give you all the answers.

I didn't know these were made in Yugoslavia.

Now that Wild Cardanswered the 1st part of my question, can somebody else answer the 2nd part.

Sorry I don't have much time on my hand to write a good question. So I'll just ask this.

1. Who is this man?

2. Tell which important cities did his forces captured and liberated during WWII?

I've got a poster at home showing Lenin in the same pose as both statues.

This picture was made at "The Hall of the Warrior Glory" in Volgograd (Stalingrad).

I guess you gave the answer in your previous post.

http://mamayevhill.volgadmin.ru/07_n.htm

Welcome Rusty!

USSR - Badge for International Brigade Participants, 1967

This is cased, if anyone wants to see it (actually, there are two, both cased, so scanning obverse and reverse is easy!).

Very nice. I have never seen this badge before!

Soviet,

you where close but I think it is Klara Zetkin.

Oupps, I was wrong all the way. The only thing I could remember, is that I had already seen here before.

No he didn't. I just didn't explain myself really good. The one Darrell have shown was not availible with document. I wanted to say that an other one was availible with documents, but it seems it has been sold.

The only thing I know that she did was the sculpture inside the Neue Wache in Berlin. I didn't know more about here before doing small research on Internet.

I found this on internet :

Am 22. April 1945 stirbt K?the Kollwitz. Die Urne mit der Asche wird nach Berlin ?berf?hrt und auf dem Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde im September 1945 beigesetzt.

So she is in Berlin, but I don't know where is located the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde in Berlin.

It's nice to have a small paper money collection from the DDR.

What about : K?the Kollwitz

Order of Labor - 3rd Class (later version)

Order of Labor - 3rd Class (Early version)