Czechoslovakia Medal "For Service To Czech State Security"

[Guest Rick Research]

Got this cased medal with a pinback and sew-on ribbon bar today. Could not find it on Lukasz's Ribbons of The World website under Czechoslovakia... ???

[Guest Rick Research]

It says it is for service, so ? 10 years? 15 years?

[Guest Rick Research]

The sew on ribbon bar was tucked under the dark blue plush liner.

How could I resist?

[Gerd Becker]

Nice! Any markings on the medal or the suspension?

[Guest Rick Research]

Not that I can see. It appears to be well silvered or mock-silvered. Only the best for the boys in SS.

[Guest Rick Research]

I am guessing that following the Soviet model: silver medal with two sets of stripes, this is a 15 years service medal?

[Guest Rick Research]

Bumped back up for Gordon. Anybody got another class?

[Anatoly13]

This is medal of Ministry,not the state award and just for service,not for years of service.

There are few more medals of SS... ;)

[Guest Rick Research]

So... it is a government department award, not a national award?

Who got it? For what?

Cleaning ladies for work inside the headquarters building?

It says "service" not "merit" so... what was it given FOR?

[Anatoly13]

For policemen. ( Ladies included )

[Guest Rick Research]

Ah! The normal civil police? But it does not count as an OFFICIAL State Award?

Nice case and 2 ribbon bars fooled me.

[Anatoly13]

SNB (KGB) was the part of The Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Another medal.For LONG service now. ;)

[Anatoly13]

Rev

[Guest Rick Research]

Same ribbon?

How many years of service is that for?

I can only read Czech words that are close enough to my old bad Russian.... :rolleyes:

[Anatoly13]

Yes,ribbon is the same.

Dunno how many years but I think for many years - "Za dlouholetou praci" - "За долголетнюю работу".

[Guest Rick Research]

Maybe it was a secret-- even to the people who GOT one!

Long long looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong years! :cheers:

[Guest Rick Research]

And I just got one today:

The ribbon is quite dirty, showing wear suggesting it was once swen onto some sort of narrow medal bar strip about as high as a pen. I've never seen any MOUNTED Czech Communist medal bars, so don't know if that was possible as a style.

[bilylev]

SNB (KGB) was the part of The Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Another medal.For LONG service now.

Hi,

SNB is not KGB, its state police, the name of Czechoslovakia secret service was StB.

[Guest Rick Research]

Thank you! Noooooooo reference books at all available/known to me on Czech Communist awards. :(

[ksc]

Thank you! Noooooooo reference books at all available/known to me on Czech Communist awards.

there is also a slovak type with znb and not snb

there is a small different between czech and slovak

i still have a czech book with medals for sale on the sales form,lots of photos even if your "cestina jazyk nemam dobry,kniha moc obrazky"

for the non czech speakers between us = if your czech is not good,book is full with photos!!!

Na zdravi sometimes in Rotterdam & sometimes in the CZ

[Greg Collins]

I have two additional SNB medals that have neither been shown nor discussed here... an SNB Service Medal and a 30 Years SNB Medal. I have seen both turn up on other Warsaw Pact uniforms, most notably on uniforms of the DDR MfS (Stasi). First, the SNB Service Medal:

[Greg Collins]

On to the 30 Years SNB Medal:

[Greg Collins]

And, finally, a comparison of the medal fronts: