Christian Zulus

Dear Bryan, I found one in my collection, which is rather similar to your one: s/n. 1.879.911 Sorry ...., I have only a flat-bed scanner of cheap quality, which can not scope with the screwpost . Best regards Christian

Dear Bryan, congratulations to that beauty . You have got a prototype, how a real Glory 3cl should look like : - worne ribbon - medal with a lot of patina - Spassky-tower still with rather good details - rather low serial number Glory & Nevski (among the common Soviet awards) bring the best results in citation-quality, when they are researched, as Dave Schwind found out . Best regards Christian BTW: The Glory is the only, true & exclusive "In-the-Line-of-Fire"-Order of the CCCP .

Dear Bryan, what does MZPP mean ? These engraved numbers look a bit sloppy done ... Best regards Christian

Dear Dan, no problem - it's your victory . We are looking forward to question #164 by Charles (Hunyadi) . Best regards Christian

CONGRATULATIONS Dear Dan, congratulations to your new victory . Your answer is absolutly correct: They found the Czar's gigantic & hughe wine cellars. Question #164 is now your turn. Best regards Christian The Bolsheviks had severe problems with mass-alcoholism and at the end, they pumped the precious wine out to the street - so the people of Petrograd started to drink wine from the curbs .

HSU Radzyevsky, Aleksey Ivanovich (13. 8. 1911 - 30. 8. 1979) Dear Bryan, the Marshal's Star belonged to Radzyevsky http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=3977 , who got his HSU also rather late: 21.02.1978 ( медаль № 11294) . Besides the Marshal's Star & HSU he got two Order of Lenins, six Order of the Red Banners, two orders of Suvorov of the 1st degree, one order of Kutuzov of the 1st degree, one order of Suvorov 2nd degree, Order of the Red Banner of Labor, with Order of the Red Star and a "Motherland" 3rd degree. A rather proud & comprehensive collection . His name seems to be of aristocratic Polish origin ? It seems, that Radzyevsky's Marshal's Star is in a private collection and not in a museum of the Russian Federation ? Market value of the set: I guess, far beyond the USD 100k benchmark . Best regards Christian

New question #163 Gentlemen, again a rather easy one, which has to do with the October Revolution. Question: During their storm of the Winter Palace at the 7th of november 1917 the Bolsheviks encountered severe problems in the basement of that palace and they needed 3 days to finish up with them. What were these problems ? Best regards Christian

Dear Carol, many thanks for your congratulations to my victory #34 . I guess, that comrade Alexandra had been very proud about her Lenin & 2 RBLs . It had been a great honour for me, to celebrate another victory at 90th anniversary of the October Revolution AND my victory #34, because "34" is a magic number: The number of the tank, which smashed the Nazis and liberated Europe - T-34 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34 Best regards Christian

Alexandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai Dear Carol, the person is question is Alexandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Kollontai http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/ Kollontai has been a pioneer in the fields of feminism, free love, woman-man-relationship, family in socialism, etc. There she broke the ruling conventions. Here is her writing from 1920 "Communism and the Family" in English translation: http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1...nism-family.htm She had been a leading diplomat and the first female ambassador (20th of september 1942) in the history of the CCCP - during the GPW in Sweden - and that fact maybe saved her existence during the great purges of the NKVD-mad-men in the 1930s. As we can see on the book-cover and the photograph, Kollontai got one Lenin & two RBLs and some foreign orders. Best regards Christian

Dear Sebastijan, many thanks for your expertise . So, the "old" YU-submariner-badge is neither old, nor so rare . Was the gold-wash-version of that badge the one for active officers up to 1970 ? Best regards Christian

Dear Paul, taking the weak Dollar into consideration, I guess, that a dealer might ask for an ORB #2 about USD 2000,- and for an ORB #3 more than USD 3000,- (for items in really excellent condition). For "numbered" ORBs, which are already researched and the result shows, that they are no long-service awards, the asked price might be much higher, I assume. "Numbered" ORBs in rather "normal" documented & complete groups might push the asked price for such a collection into "stratospheric" heights - imagine: A "normal" officers-group, but with ORB, ORB #2, ORB#3 & ORB #4 inside (and the ORB #4 is the only long-service ORB) ... So, your purchase of an ORB #3 for USD 250,- in 1992 would have been a rather good investment . Best regards Christian BTW: I already posted my mentioned RB#2 & RB#3 here at GMIC: RB#2: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24254 RB#3: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24256

Dear Bryan, this one seems to be genuine & authentic . Many thanks for sharing . Where did you find the pics and do you have further information about the item & document ? Best regards Christian

Dear Paul, I had to pay about USD 300,- for my ORB 3rd award, type 4, s/n. 8426, in january 1994 in Vienna - a lot of money at that time, but a bargain compared to the present situation . Best regards Christian

2.000 posts at the GMIC-quiz & 2.000 post from comrade Zulus Gentlemen, I want to use this thread to clebrate my post #2.000 at GMIC and also to draw your attention to our quiz, which has reached today the benchmark of 2.000 posts http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtop...st&p=218223 . Both #2.000-incidents happened today at the 90th anniversary of the "Great Socialistic October Revolution". Last night - at 02:00 Moscow time - I had been watching Eisenstein's "October" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October:_Ten_...Shook_the_World on DVD together with a good bottle of excellent Austrian white wine (Gr?ner Veltliner from the Wachau valley of the Danube). Well, there hadn't been so many people around, who wanted to watch with me Eisenstein-movies at midnight in Vienna ... Today is at 20:40 - 22:25 at the French/German-TV-channel ARTE a documentary about the October Revolution: http://dyninet.wdr.de/inetepg/ObjekteZurSe...kmark=&Pos= Best regards Christian

Gentlemen, has anyone any news (e-mail ?) from Mr. Rest, MILITARIA Publishing House, in Vienna ? Waldemar and me are planning to meet Mr. Rest in Vienna. Best regards Christian

Dear Auke, many thanks for the translation and your expertise . Pyotr had been 10 years younger, than "our" Gnitienko, but he died at the beginning of the GPW ... "Our" Gnitienko entered service in the Red Army almost 40 years old - rather late -, but made a rather "heroic" career. I guess, that the propability is almost 100 %, that the 2 Gnitienkos had been brothers. Best regards Christian BTW: I hope, that I will get soon the last documents about Sgt. Gnitienko from our researcher .

Dear Paul, very impressive Medical-Service-Group . Best regards Christian BTW: As with my RB #2 group, it would be nice, to have the missing medals ...

POST # 2000 Let's celebrate this event at the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution . Best regards Christian

Quiz reaches outstanding benchmark at the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution Gentlemen, with the next posting we will reach the benchmark of - 2000 postings - more than 20.000 views - at 100 pages ... and the incident happens exactly at the 90th anniversary of the "Great Socialistic October Revolution" Congratulations to Christophe and all the participants of the quiz . Best regards Christian BTW: Carol's new question might be posting #2.000 .

Dear Carol, congratulations to your well deserved victory . Best regards Christian

Gnitienko's younger brother, who died in 1941 ? Gentlemen, I just found that entry http://allaces.ru/p/people.php?id=00000001198 in the internet, which shows a Gnitienko with the ident "Father's Name": Петр Платонович Гнитиенко (Pyotr Platonovich Gnitienko) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Страна: СССР Годы жизни: 1913 - 25.12.1941 (ПАК) Вид авиации: Бомбардировочная Категория: Стрелок (стрелок-радист) Места службы: 5 ба??25.12.41 Стрелок-радист -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Родился в 1913 г. в д. Шостаки, Супруновского с/с, Полтавской области. 25.12.41 г. в районе с. Литвиновка потерпел катастрофу самолет. Погибли командир звена ст. лейтенант В.Ф.Царьков, стрелок-бомбардир мл. лейтенант И.П.Лимаренко, стрелок-радист старшина П.П.Гнитиенко. Похоронены в с. Погорелое, на кладбище в 2 км сев.-зап. Военного городка. Источники информации: 1. Мемориал. 2. ЦАМО, ф. 58, оп. 818883, д. 389, л. 4,5. My knowledge of the Russian language is too weak - maybe one of our experts might translate the information in a correct way - many thanks . Best regards Christian

Also my opinion . Best regards Christian BTW: That might become victory #6 of Carol I .

Gentlemen, any opinion about that : Best regards Christian

... at least ONE country, which celebrates that important day in the history of mankind . Best regards Christian

Dear Jim, Carol is right: The 4 names at the memorial brass plate of the MI-8 crew are almost impossible to read at the the video ... Best regards Christian BTW: Carol has done an excellent job .