Christian Zulus

Dear Frank, congratulations to your victory #9 . You are THE DDR-expert . After finishing your "framing-job" we are waiting eagerly for your question #151 . Best regards Christian

Dear Anatoly, Igor sells now the COMPLETE & DOCUMENTED group of our Admiral - incl. People's Hero: http://www.collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=17893 Well, USD 175.000,- .... Best regards Christian

That's true Chris, it's the only one in the www . Best regards Christian BTW: Maybe our native experts could post more pics ?

Gentlemen, the - faked - YU-Hero of our comrade Admiral had been offered a time ago: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=17666 - also some nice photographs of that Admiral at GMIC-YU . Well, it seems, that some of the really big US-collectors are making cash - or have to make cash, due to some real estate loans in the USA . Outstanding group for a museum, but the Military Museum in Belgrade doesen't have that budget for new items . Best regards Christian

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Dear Bryan, you brought the problem to the point . The fact is, that GMIC-YU produced a bit of a mess in some topics . It might be a good job for us (and for you) to become our CLUB HOST . Best regards Christian

GMIC-YU already #3 at the Communist-Era-Section at GMIC Gentlemen, Yugoslavia is not only the fastest growing section at GMIC, but already #3 - in terms of postings - at the Communist-Era-Section at GMIC . Yugoslavia just surpassed the DDR-section (GDR) and is now #3 behind Mongolia and the Soviet Union. In my opinion, that "ranking" represents also the "phaleristic" quality of orders & medals from these 3 states of the past, as I already mentioned at some other threads: CCCP offers the most interesting items and groups (and the most expensive ones ), then I would rank Mongolia, due to the sheer beauty of the majority of their awards and on third place I would rank Yugoslavia. That is now also documented by the interest of the GMIC-members, if you take the number of postings into account. Best regards Christian

Update at "Mir Nagrad" of Gnitientko's correct s/n. for his Glory 1cl Gentlemen, the staff of "Mir Nagrad" http://www.mirnagrad.ru/cgi-bin/index.cgi , a website, which has a comprehensive listing of all full cavaliers of the Order of Glory, already updated Gnitienko's correct 1965 s/n. for his Glory 1cl: http://www.mirnagrad.ru/cgi-bin/exinform.c...;ич Best regards Christian BTW: I sent all the documents to them .

Dear Milian many thanks - really breathtaking I think, that communist YU is really a great #3 - behind CCCP & Mongolia - in producing outstanding orders, medals and badges . Best regards Christian

Dear Vic, many thanks for your compliments concerning my own Kandybin group . I think you are right: It's the Nakhimov, which boosts the price tag . So, this group might be again one of Igor's recent "bargains" for the rich collector ... Best regards Christian

Brigade Commander & Rear Admiral Gentlemen, in the citations of a Soviet Navy group Igor offers now at his website for mere USD 78.000,- http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtop...st&p=211553 , it is noted twice, that Brigade Commanders had the rank of a Rear Admiral. Also Vice Admiral Georgiy Stepanov, whose group is it, got his command over a naval brigade as a Captain 1st rank and promoted after some years to the rank of a Rear Admiral. So, what had been the reason, that Ivan Kandybin didn't promote to an Admiral's rank ? - Did he retire too soon ? - Had been the command of a coastal defense brigade, despite the large number of boats and the strategic importance of just that harbour in Latvia, too less important ? Best regards Christian

Nice and interesting group, but according to the "heroic content" and the career of our comrade, it seems a bit overpriced. Problems: The Motherland 3cl seems to be "unresearchable" and some (important) badges are missing (+ their docs) . I paid for my complete & researched Soviet naval group, from a comrade with a rather similar career (he retired too soon, so he didn't promote - as a brigade commander (!) - to the rank of a Rear Admiral ), in spring 2002 mere USD 400,- . O.K., without Nakhimov ... : http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11948 USD 78.000,- for merits in minesweeping during the GPW are a bit heavy - that's my humble opinion . But it is a Soviet Navy group and will be sold soon .... Best regards Christian

Gentlemen, at least one of the two items should be in Belgrade, in that museum: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=16820 . But who knows, maybe Tito's Soviet "Order of Victory", Suvorov 1cl, "Order of Freedom" + the 2 YU-Marshal-Stars are already at some flats our houses of Tito's children or grand-children in Zagreb - or a collector in Moscow is happy about having Tito's orders .... According to old YU-Law, Tito's order might be his private property - and the property of his heirs . It might be, that the museum in Belgrade shows only copies of Tito's awards . Best regards Christian

Great - that YU-Marshal-Star is something like the Soviet "Order of Victory" in double-super-king-size . Has anybody some close-up pics of that gem ? Best regards Christian

Dear Christophe, that seems to be a very special question for our DDR-specialist Frank Knarf ... But since the 21st of september he hadn't been at GMIC . Maybe you could send a PM to him ? Best regards Christian

Dear Christophe, o.k., then it hadn't been General Clay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_D._Clay either, because he arrived together with Johnson . Did the important personality play a role in the Eastern or Western sector of Berlin ? Might the journalist have been Annamarie Doherr (1909 - 1974) working for the "Frankfurter Rundschau" ? Best regards Christian

Dear Paddy, offer your Partisan 1cl to Igor http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showuser=1007 , he has only a 2cl in his partisan-section on his website to offer and he might be maybe happy, to get a fine and good preserved 1cl: http://www.collectrussia.com/showcat.htm?cat=Partisan . For his Partisan 2cl he is asking USD 740,-. Best regards Christian

Dear Bryan, as already mentioned in an older thread at GMIC-YU, his hughe collection should be there: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=16820 Best regards Christian BTW: Who had more orders & medals: Tito or Brezhnev ????

Dear Christophe, interesting and compelling question about the "anti-fascist protection barrier" . The important personality had been the Vice President of the USA Lyndon B. Johnson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson , who arrived in Berlin. The rest of the question needs some more research ... Best regards Christian

Dear Paddy, as long as Alexei "Nota Bene" http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showuser=1181 thinks, that both medals are o.k., you are on the save side . Alexei is the sucessor of PMD for making the certificates somehow and a true expert. I just read the statement of Alexei in the other soviet forum - congratulations . Best regards Christian

Gentlemen, our GPW-veteran & last Marshal of the Soviet Union had been fully rehabilitated after his bold attempt to rescue to CCCP in august 1999 with some (completly!) drunken friends: President Putin decorated former coup plotter Marshal Dmitri Yazov in the Kremlin on November 17, 2004. Yazov was awarded Russia's Order of Merit for "high achievements in useful, societal activities." Marshal Yazov works also as a consultant to President Putin ... http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/...279edebba6.html http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/...1ad2982300.html Best regards Christian BTW: As far, as I can remember, Igor or Dimitry offered years ago the complete diaries of Yazov, he wrote in prison, for sale at a rather moderate price (+ a wide range of more documents and ID-cards, but no orders or medals).

Ed presented a researched "Crimean" Glory 3cl of Gnitienko's comrade from the 55th Rifle Corps Gentlemen, Ed Haynes showed us the research of the Glory 3cl of Private Netsenko - also an Ukrainian soldier -, who got his Glory 3cl also for heroic deeds during the liberation of the Crimean peninsula in spring 1944 - 12th of may: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=22041 Also with a really great citation . Best regards Christian

Netsenko and Gnitienko got their Glories in the ident 55th Rifle Corps at the same operation at the Crimea Dear Ed, great citation , what proves again, that the Order of Glory delivers the most heroic citations . Great coincidence: Sergeant Gnitienko http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5536 and Private Netsenko fought during the liberation of the Crimea in the ident 55th Rifle Corps, which consisted of the 87th, 347th (Gnitienko) and 387th (Netsenko) Rifle Divisions. Gnitienko got his Glory 3cl & 2cl at the Crimea (1cl during "Operation Bagration") for rescuing 4 comrades under fire (3cl) and for killing a large number of Hitlerites (2cl). Ed, whenever you intend to sell Netsenko's Glory 3cl, I might pay the best price . Best regards Christian

At least the BoH is not faked ... Best regards Christian

Dear Christophe, you are right, the question is completly stupid, as: "What is the colour of the sky, when the sun is shining?". But at least, the winner gets 4 great books (except "Stalingrad" I have all of them in my library - really well made publications with good maps and nice colour plates) . OSPREY-Eastern-Front-quiz: http://www.ospreypublishing.com/competition.php Best regards Christian