Yugoslavia Commendation to Colonel of Yugoslave Army

[order_of_victory]

Here is one of the nicest Eastern Block Docs I have seen

Here is the front of the document

Edited December 10, 2007 by order_of_victory

[order_of_victory]

Inside, signed by Tito - the seller said this was an orginal signature but I cant say any more than that

Order of Victory

[Bryan]

It would be interesting if a native speaker could translate this document. If it's the real thing, it looks to be a quite impressive document!

[Guest Rick Research]

It is in Croatian. As ever, grammar rusty, but here goes--

Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces

of the Socialist Federative Republic

of Yugoslavia

To Colonel

Zaklan Spasu

In recognition and gratitude for pre-

vious revolutionary labor and (success?) (?man-

aging/maintaining?) the unity of the Yugoslavian

People's Army

Marshal of Yugoslavia

(signature)

Is there a DATE somewhere?

[SasaYU]

It is in Croatian. As ever, grammar rusty, but here goes--

Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces

of the Socialist Federative Republic

of Yugoslavia

To Colonel

Zaklan Spasu

In recognition and gratitude for pre-

vious revolutionary labor and (success?) (?man-

aging/maintaining?) the unity of the Yugoslavian

People's Army

Marshal of Yugoslavia

(signature)

Is there a DATE somewhere?

It is in Serbian.

To be precise, in the days when there was Federal Yugoslavia and all of the states were in federation, language was called Serbo-Croatian.

Also, the exact translation would be:

Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces

of the Socialist Federative Republic

of Yugoslavia

To Colonel

Zaklan Spasu

In recognition and gratitude for devoted revolutionary labor

and successfull leadership of the units of the Yugoslavian

People's Army

Marshal of Yugoslavia

(signature)

TITO

Edited December 11, 2007 by SasaYU

[Anatoly13]

This is document of Plaketa JNA.

[Anatoly13]

case

[Anatoly13]

and my doc

[Anatoly13]

close up

[new world]

close up

Nice doc and badge!

[Bryan]

Indeed very nice document and badge!

I wonder why the document from order_of_victory doesn't have any date.

[order_of_victory]

Thanks Anatoly for the additional info and thanks to Rick and SasaYU for the transalations

The seller of this itm said it dated from the 1970's, its intresting that mine does not have a date and has a metal star on the front

Order of Victory

[Anatoly13]

Metal star is on the face sheet of a folder from the document.

The box has the drawn star on my picture.

[order_of_victory]

Metal star is on the face sheet of a folder from the document.

The box has the drawn star on my picture.

Sorry Anatoly i miss read the pictures

Order of Victory

[Luka]

Inside, signed by Tito - the seller said this was an orginal signature but I cant say any more than that

That is not original signature.

[SasaYU]

It is Tito' signature, but is it original or inprinted is hard to say.

[Anatoly13]

This is Tito's signature of course!

The signature is made by a ball pen. As I did not see, how he signed I can not be sure about originality.

But it is very similar!

[Luka]

Well, it is very hard to imagine that tito has signed thousands of those and other documents in person...

[SasaYU]

If it is not inprinted, it is original.

[Luka]

Realy?

Edited December 27, 2007 by Luka

[order_of_victory]

What the seller said to me when I bought mine was that Tito always signed is own name in Black Marker pen, now I dont know weather he was saying that to justify the signature on the item or not

But its not unusual for leaders to sign there own names on Comendations Stalin did it for while

Order of Victory

[SasaYU]

Of course.

I wonder if Luka can explain to us why he thinks that signature is not original.

[Luka]

I wonder if Luka can explain to us why he thinks that signature is not original.

Of course I can...as I said before...

It is senseless that he was signing(in person) so many documents(which are counted up to thousands and more...).

The signature on the subject document is called facsimile.

Only the documents of more importance(for an higher rated officers-just an example) where signed in person.

Edited December 29, 2007 by Luka

[SasaYU]

Of course I can...as I said before... It is senseless that he was signing(in person) so many documents(which are counted up to thousands and more...). The signature on the subject document is called facsimile. Only the documents of more importance(for an higher rated officers-just an example) where signed in person.

Luka, thank you for your explanation.

Seems to me that you are some kind of expert.

Only, I wonder what are "an higher rated officers", since on Anatoly's commendation is written that it is assigned to "general-major" of JNA.

[Luka]

I was referring to document of order_of_victory!

There is also little chance that Anatoly's document is personaly signed...but all this is not very importante because these documents are not rare and dont have any special value...

Edited December 31, 2007 by Luka