Soviet Triple Attack

[slava1stclass]

To all:

For the labor award aficionados among you.

Regards,

slava1stclass

[Christian Zulus]

Dear "slava1stclass",

many thanks for the pic .

Looks like the portrait of an extraordinary successful chief of a collective farm with having produced 3 extraordinary surplus harvest (HSL + 2 Lenins) .

BTW: Beginning with the end of the 1940s there had been very precise regulations for collective farmers for what they will get a HSL, Lenin or RBL. Young Gorbachev helped during the harvest at the collective farm of his father in Southern Russia. The harvest had been excellent. The father got a Lenin and young Gorbachev received his first RBL. I guess, that without his early RBL, Gorbachev wouldn't have made his brilliant career in the Komsomol . And without that RBL the Soviet Union would maybe still exist ... My humble theory: Orders & medals are of eminent importance in the history of the CCCP.

Best regards

Christian