pride

Sociedad de Educación Patriótico Militar (SEPMI)

Amazing, as usual!

New 60° Aniversario Seguridad del Estado y Orden Interior medal 

4/6/2021

No differences, it's just Cuba! certainly they were used by the militia until 2009, in 2011 we have already seen the replacement with those in green/brown felt

From our blog https://cuba-militaria.org/mtt/

I can confirm the legitimacy of these two beret, you can see boths in the attached pics

MTT Milicias de Tropas Territoriales

It is but we have no evidence of the use based on photos or regulations. It remains a mystery, personally i believe that it was never adopted 

http://soviet-awards.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5095

5 hours ago, bbrandon said:

I have done some research during the last 2 days and can now definetely confirm that there is a new type of Hero of Labor Medal in Cuba. This new Version hast got a large gear now behind the star, actually quite similar looking to those sold at ebay right now.

 

This can be also seen on the cuban award sites:

 

http://www.trabajadores.cu/heroe

 

Comparing the date of the pictures, this new typ of award seems to be in official use since around 2021, as the 2020 awardess seem to still have received the older, known type.

 

Also the Cuban Hero of Labour Award Ceremonies which can be found at Youtube, show this new design around 2021, when you look very closely - see pic below.

 

Still, about these medals sold online I can't tell if those are wearers copies, tourist souvenirs or the real deal. I am not even sure if wearers copies are/were common in cuba. Also what I found to be quite uncommon, is, that each award seems to be available as a screwback AND as a pinback Version - with otherwise very minor to non-existant differences. (excluding the miniature sizes). Could this have to do anything with first and second class of this medal?

 

What I also realized is, that the hole of the support plate where the ring goes through looks quite large on the versions at ebay. So it could be that this new 2021 award Version already has another subtype (if ebay medals are the real deal).

 

PS. About "caribbean" and "cuba" wording in description, what pride wrote is true - ebay does not allow cuba products to be sold and paypal will make a deep check and / or block payment when word "cuba" shows up, they are also blocking quite some communist countries products that way.

 

5 hours ago, bbrandon said:

I have done some research during the last 2 days and can now definetely confirm that there is a new type of Hero of Labor Medal in Cuba. This new Version hast got a large gear now behind the star, actually quite similar looking to those sold at ebay right now.

 

This can be also seen on the cuban award sites:

 

http://www.trabajadores.cu/heroe

 

5 hours ago, bbrandon said:

Exactly, they have changed the design in recent years, here you can see it quite clearly

 

Hi guys, i've purchased several times from this seller over the past few years and it has always been fine.  I know he has good connections with people on the island and his stuff comes directly from there.  

But it's true, the quality of the Orders has significantly deteriorated over the years, and obviously not just since the end of the URSS.  This happened for many reasons, among the first the enormous economic difficulties of the country which are reflected in every area, including decorations. 

Regarding Bob's observation, i have an explanation and i'm 99.9% sure that it's like that: avoid the word "Cuba" in auctions to avoid problems with ebay / paypal.  This is happened to me twice during the years, the last one during a uniform sale: the payment was blocked by paypal and they asked to me for an explanation about the items.  Payment freezed for 11 days then everything ok.  All of this vecause of the embargo restrictions and so on

Boletin "Revolucion", organo oficial M-26-7 n°12+ n°21 1958

Boletin informativo "Resistencia" publicado por el Movimiento de Resistencia Civica de La Habana 1958

Thanks for your precious words

That's right, till today we have no evidence of the use  in photos or regulations. It remains a mystery, personally i believe that it was never adopted in Cuba

http://soviet-awards.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5095

2 different types: gold and silver plated

Some info here: https://cuba-militaria.org/effekten/

Mine:

From https://cuba-militaria.org/effekten/

"These specialists badges are in use since 1976. Overall there are four grades. The higest grade is the Master (Maestro – M), the lowest is the third grade (Tercera – III). Only professional military can purchase the master grade. Conscripts can purchase a higher grade (without master grade) after completion of a education chapter or rather after six months in service. However only once per year. (source: Verde Olivo, issue April 2013)"

My set:

My set

Sierra Maestra bulletin / revista M-26-7

Album Expedicionarios Granma

Name and surname: My. Antonio ....

"My." stand for MAYOR

This document dates back to the end of the 60's and was distributed to the participants at the meetings with the high ranks of the government, like Raul and Fidel