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    Neat Paper Group to a Victory Parade Miner!


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    I'm betting that from the title, you can't quite figure out what this thread is about...

    I just bought out a small collection and these docs were in the lot. After sorting all of these out of the other piles of documents, this became a neat group!

    This group is to a senior Coal Miner by the name of Gorshkov (no relation to the Admiral, I don't think) Anyway, this guy was hooked-up politically and got to go to all sorts of neat things in Red Square and in the Kremlin. Without further ado, his stuff....

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    Next, some of his passes. These are some of the neater ones... passes for the 800 Years of Moscow parade, a day pass for the Kremlin, the 1 May 1945 parade on Red Square... There were many more, these were just some of my favorites...

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    Now, ready for the cool one? In 15 years of collecting Soviet militaria, this is the first one of these I have ever seen. I think this may be one of the rarest documents out there and most interesting...

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    He did a LOT of traveling back and forth ABOVE ground for a coal minier!!!! :speechless1::rolleyes::cheeky:

    But what an immaculately clean (another oddity, eh?) group--

    no medals, all paper?

    I betcha he was a COMMISSAR type and not a digger...

    though his civil Orders (and a late 1941 Red Star tossed in for good measure-- evacuating vital equipment/demolition before the Germans arrived? I am sensing a Research Story there...) are

    just awesomely amazing.

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    I congratulate you. That is the kind of group that most of us can only dream about. It has been a pleasure to discover how many people enjoy the old documents as much as I do. I hope you will share your research results with us.

    I think it's a neat group, but it's not really my "thing". I hope no one is dissapointed, but I don't intend to research the group. I've got so many other things that are in my backlog for research that I just have neither the time nor funds to dedicate to a paper-only non-military group, even as neat as it is. As soon as I come back from TDY travel this weekend, it will be looking for a new home. :jumping:

    Dave

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