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    Medal "For Service To Czech State Security"


    Guest Rick Research

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    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... ???

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    Guest Rick Research

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

    How could I resist?

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    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.

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    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?

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    • 1 year later...
    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? :unsure:

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

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

    Nice case and 2 ribbon bars fooled me.

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    Same ribbon? :speechless1:

    How many years of service is that for?

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

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

    Long long looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong years! :cheers:

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    • 5 months later...
    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.

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

    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 cheers.gif sometimes in Rotterdam & sometimes in the CZ

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    • 1 year later...

    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:

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