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    Nice badge,

    What is Halhingol? :unsure:

    More commonly and correctly, Khalkhin Gol, the river in eastern Mongolia when Mongolian and allied Soviet troops met and defeated Japannese invaders in 1939. The Mongolian badge/medal was awarded to the Soviet allies as well as to Mongolian troops.

    See a more extensive and more focused discussion over at

    http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5087

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    Gentlemen,

    I have to ask the following question and apologize I missed the answer somewhere in the other thread.

    Can anyone explain why the inscription on the banner, ?Avgust 1939? is in English; as is (more or less) the ?HALHINGOL? on the bottom? Any insight to this would be appreciated.

    Thank you,

    Wild Card

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    For a very brief period of time (in 1940), around 6 months if I remember correctly, the Mongolians used the latin alphabet as their official script. Then they quickly changed to cyrillic, I presume under enormous Soviet pressure. This badge is the only tangible reminder of this period.

    So not really English, rather Mongolian in letters we can read.

    Jan

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