A group shot of my wartime Soviet collection of medals and badges with a dog tag and a couple of shoulder boards thrown in
Nick
A group shot of my wartime Soviet collection of medals and badges with a dog tag and a couple of shoulder boards thrown in
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
Nice collection Nick. I got into these whilst serving in Berlin before the Wall came down and most of mine were obtained "under cover of darkness" for want of a better expression whilst trading things you really wouldn't believe with our Soviet opposites at Allied Checkpoint Charlie ( Soviet Military Mission - SOXMIS vehicles passing through. But this was a rare contact) or at Tiergarten Soviet War Memorial (we manned a police post at the back gate and they would tap on the side window from inside their compound). A popular thing for them was mail order catalogues (I told you you wouldn't believe it!) which they would send back to the USSR for wives and girlfriends etc to copy the styles. Or even Russian vodka Stolychnaya which they couldn't get but we could from "Natashas" the Russian gift shop in East Berlin.
I really must keep my previous promise and post some of my treasures.
Thanks for showing
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Great stuff!
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