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    P U ! A 1940s Czech Communist School Badge ?


    Guest Rick Research

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    Guest Rick Research

    This is a little one (unlike the monstrously huge Military Academy badges) that I'll show first next to a 1946-56 Soviet University Graduate badge that I also picked up at today's show, for size comparison

    Like the gigantic Military Academy badgtes, it is made by Zukov (mark "Zukov O2" on the screw dissk only),and the badge and screw disk are obviously silver, though unhallmarked. The screwplate is silvered on one side and brass on the other. The lion appears to have never been silvered, unless that's worn off the brass:

    Unfortunately, since the lion is a pronged-on separate piece, at some point it got squeezed on the back leg, fracturing out the red enamel from the star there.

    But look at kitty's tummy-- that is the OLD Czech shield, not the Communist model--sitting on a red star!

    So is this from the period around the 1948 coup?

    P = ???

    Political ?

    Police ?

    Pedagogical ?

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    PU = Pechotni Uciliste

    That would be a badge from the Infantry School, in use 1955-1962

    Other abbreviations:

    AU = Automobilni Uciliste - Transport School

    DTU = Delostrelecke Technicke U - Artillery Technical

    DU = Delostrelecke U - Artillery

    IU = Intendancni U - Intendance

    LTU = Letecke Technicke U - Air Force Technical

    LU = Letecke U - Air Force

    SU = Spojovaci U - Signals

    TU = Tankove U K Gottwalda - Tank School of Klement Gottwald

    UCO = U Civilni Obrany - Civil Defence

    U PSL = U Pozemnich Specialistu Letectva - Air Ground Specialists

    U PVO = U Protivzdusne Obrany - Anti-aircraft

    VPU = Vojenskopoliticke U J Hakena - Military Political School of J Haken

    VU = Vojenske U Hrdiny SSSR Kapitana O Jarose - Military School of Hero of Soviet Union Captain O Jaros (1958-)

    VU PVS = Vojenske U Pohranicni a Vnitrni Straze J Fucika - Military School for Border and Interior Guards of J Fucik

    ZU = Zdravotnicke U - Medical Orderlies

    ZTU = Zenijni Technicke U i Pro Odbornost Chemik - Engineer Technical and Chemical

    ZEL U = Zeleznicni U - Railway

    Greetings/GRA

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    Guest Rick Research

    :jumping: Didn't expect that-- or that it could be so late, from the "old style" lion!

    TERRIFIC list for the abbreviations! :cheers:

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    most likley "Pedagogical" - there had been a quite a high number of these "Pedagogical Universities" in the democratic states in Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and 1950s.

    sorry .... I have been to late with my guessing - I think, that GRA seems to be right :blush: .

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

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    • 11 months later...
    Guest Rick Research

    VERY nice! Thanks! :cheers: I haven't seen another here since the "PU" I picked up.

    You switching over from CUban to CZech-- alphabetically, maybe? :lol:

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    VERY nice! Thanks! :cheers: I haven't seen another here since the "PU" I picked up.

    You switching over from CUban to CZech-- alphabetically, maybe? :lol:

    HE HE :D ,

    no Rick just thought I would add a little info and pics here,

    Regards Eddie

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