Japan Changkufeng and Nomonhan Incidents in the Mirror of the Soviets Awards

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Documents for the Khalkhyn Gol Badges are pretty dull in design and have no photos of cavaliers inside.

Here comes the most interesting (and rare) first type of document for first variation of the badge.

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Another example

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Edited September 3, 2012 by JapanX

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Photo gallery of cavaliers of this badge can be found here

http://gmic.co.uk/in...adge-cavaliers/

Cheers,

Nick

[kaigunair]

great post about a little studied war. A few years back I went to all the russian antique stores in my area hoping to find these exact badges. I would often see alot of 80's era pins in there as well as at the local swap meets, but never ran into these. Still, nice to see a post on them.

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A few years back I went to all the russian antique stores in my area hoping to find these exact badges. I would often see alot of 80's era pins in there as well as at the local swap meets, but never ran into these.

Pretty salty variation 1 of the Khalkhyn Gol currently at eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Russian-Soviet-Mongolian-Halkingol-Badge-Medal-Early-Type-1940-Russia-/160876764846?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2575009eae

Cheers,

Nick

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Pretty salty variation 1 of the Khalkhyn Gol currently at eBay

http://www.ebay.com/...=item2575009eae

Cheers,

Nick

Thanks for the heads up, but I've decided there's way too much I already collect to be getting into soviet medals!!!! If I did, I'd probably want to first get one of the soviet gold star awards made of pure gold (hero of the soviet republic?). A fellow collector friend, who has authored quite a number of books on jpn military subjects actually showed me a few of those russian medals. He had also returned one back to its owner. I think those are super $$$$ though....

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If I did, I'd probably want to first get one of the soviet gold star awards made of pure gold (hero of the soviet republic?).

Hero of the Soviet Union.

Could cost you somewhere between $10000 and $20000 ;)