Soviet Order of Lenin cousins

[Bob]

I recently acquired an Order of Geroge Dimitrov... not that I am a Bulgaria collector but I liked the design in how it was so similar to the Order of Lenin.

Are there any other awards with same similarity? E.g. from other communist countries?

[DutchBoy]

I think the next closest would be an East German Karl marx order, the other commie countries don't as I recall have quite the same thing (except Mongolia of course, which I suppose you have already).

[Eric Schena]

Hi all:

Czechoslovakia had the Order of Klement Gottwald - for Construction of the Socialist Homeland (Ř?d Klementa Gottwalda ? Za Budov?n? Socialistick? Vlasti), which could possibly be included as an equivalent to the Order of Lenin. Good luck finding one - they are rarer than hen's teeth. Heck, most Czech orders are tough to locate.

Cheers,

Eric

[Bob]

Hi all:

Czechoslovakia had the Order of Klement Gottwald - for Construction of the Socialist Homeland (Ř?d Klementa Gottwalda ? Za Budov?n? Socialistick? Vlasti), which could possibly be included as an equivalent to the Order of Lenin. Good luck finding one - they are rarer than hen's teeth. Heck, most Czech orders are tough to locate.

Cheers,

Eric

Let's start with a picture:)

http://www.medals.org.uk/czechoslovakia/csr/csr006.htm

http://www.vyznamenani.net/CSR/Order_of_Kl...t_Gottwald.html

Not quite close enough in design for me. I guess Lenin only had 1 cousin in Dimitrov:)

Still, certainly a nice one.

[Ed_Haynes]

So this is about design rather than function? So Sukhbaatar is out of the running? The Order of Kim Il Sung is out? Just Lenin, Marx, and Dmiitrov? A nice trio for sure, but . . . ???

Edited October 2, 2006 by Ed_Haynes