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    OK, this will be way too easy and I am NOT happy with it, but . . .

    We all known that out colleagues who "do" German awards are overly and perhaps perversely fixated on the backsides, rears, rumps, back sides, whatevers of their awards. Dismissing what that may say about them and their predelictions, we also may want to direct some attention to backsides of our awards.

    What award is this? (Some very modest "image-fiddling" has been done.)

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    Gentlemen,

    another rather easy question:

    Who am I?

    I am a hero of WW II and received a lot of medals and orders - among them: Order of Victory, Suvorov 1cl, etc., etc. - and promoted to the rank of a Marshal.

    Here you see a portrait of me in younger years, before WW II and in civil clothes.

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

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    Sorry, I really made that one too easy. Not knowing much about architecture and personalities, I was so excited to actually have won one of these through mundane knowledge/guessing regharding awards that I rushed a question out in my excitement. Knew someone would answer it soon. I just didn't expect it would be so soon: Just over one hour from posting to answer! :blush:

    Correct, of course, Christian! :beer:

    And you have already given us your question. :beer:

    No, I do not have one of these badges. :( Two were awarded, and only three were produced. And the two that have been seen are both screwback (like the one shown).

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    Dear Ed,

    many thanks for your congratulations :beer: .

    Dr. Herfurth noted in his small booklet, that the medal is fixed with a needle ...

    What about my new question?

    He is really a very famous marshal, who played a major role in the liberation of a city - and we all know this medal ;) .

    You can also see this strategic genius on photographs with comrade Stalin ...

    Best regards

    Christian

    Sorry, I really made that one too easy. Not knowing much about architecture and personalities, I was so excited to actually have won one of these through mundane knowledge/guessing regharding awards that I rushed a question out in my excitement. Knew someone would answer it soon. I just didn't expect it would be so soon: Just over one hour from posting to answer! :blush:

    Correct, of course, Christian! :beer:

    And you have already given us your question. :beer:

    No, I do not have one of these badges. :( Two were awarded, and only three were produced. And the two that have been seen are both screwback (like the one shown).

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    Is it Konev when he still had his hair? :P

    Dear RedThreat,

    sorry, it is not Konev :( .

    But the form of the marshal's face is rather similar, but not the eyes ;) and it is not the Berlin-Medal also ...

    O.K., it is not Konev and it is not the Berlin-Medal, but there are still some other marshals in the line, who received the Order of Victory :P .

    There are not so many capturing or liberation of medals left and our marshal's contribution was really rather important.

    Best regards

    Christian

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    I thought he liberated Warsaw.......

    But a point.....the medals you mention are not all liberation medals.

    Liberation medals are Warsaw, Prague and Belgrade only ;)

    Vienna, Budapest Koenisberg and Berlin are Capture medals.

    Get your hints right :P

    Jim

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    Liberation medals are Warsaw, Prague and Belgrade only ;)

    Vienna, Budapest Koenisberg and Berlin are Capture medals.

    Although having said that....it is a very thin line that separates Liberation from Capture...... and i guess some never knew the difference. :D

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    Thank you, Christian and Wild Card :beer:

    Christian, you threw us a nice curve ball: Marshal doesn't have to be a Marshal of the Soviet Union :P

    In what hero city is this monument located?

    Cheers,

    Simon

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    Gentlemen,

    the meeting took place in autumn 1942 in Stalingrad and the four friends are discussing in front of the big map the great military counter-offensive concerning the smashing of Hitler's 6th Army. We see the Military Council of the Stalingrad Front + the Political Commissar of the Rokossovsky's Don Front, comrade Kirichenko + Stalingrad's Party-Dude:

    The friends from left to right:

    - Nikita S. Khrushchev, Political Commissar - Zampolit - of the Stalingrad Front; rank: Lt.-Gen.

    - Alexei I. Kirichenko, Major General (later Politburo-Member and party chief of the Ukraine)

    - A. S. Chuyanov, party chief of the Stalingrad Oblast

    - Andrei I. Yeremenko, Colonel General, Commander of the Stalingrad Front

    The 3 comrades in military uniform are genuine and authentic Ukrainians - not Russians, despite the fact, that Stalingrad is part of the Russian Republic ;) . A demonstration of internationalism ...

    At Yeremenko's uniform you can see his two golden fabric stripes for two severe wounds. No other army in the WW II had so many top-generals among the KIA or among the severly wounded, as the Red Army!

    Attached you will see of photograph of comrade Khrushchev around one year later, showing him in a correct uniform as a Lt.-Gen. and with his Lenin, Suvorv 1cl, RBL and Stalingrad-Medal.

    Khrushechev's success as a Political Commissar for the goals of the Soviet Union had been much brighter, than his fiasco as a party leader and economist in later years ;) . Also comrade Brezhnev had been a rather meritorious Political Commissar, but at a much lower level, than Khrushchev, who had been all times political responsible for a Front or even several Fronts!

    Best regards

    Christian

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    NEW QUESTION

    Gentlemen,

    again a very easy question, to make the process faster ;) :

    What do we see at the front of SU-Medal: "Medal of Merit in Teaching and Education USSR" ("Medal Sa saslugi w obutschenije i wospitanije CCCR")??????

    Please describe what you see in a few words - thanks :beer:

    Second, very small additional, question:

    What is the more familiar name among collectors for this prestigious (and rare) Soviet State-Medal?

    Best regards

    Christian

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