Finally collected all three grades of this beautiful award.
As you can see from the low numbers they are variation 1 and likely WW2 issued.
Hope you like them
Nick
Orders of Maternal Glory 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class
Finally collected all three grades of this beautiful award.
As you can see from the low numbers they are variation 1 and likely WW2 issued.
Hope you like them
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
Nice set. There is something quite fascinating about these awards in the context of the concept of "total war" observed at that time and this series is similar in principle to the Nazi Mutterkreuz albeit that the MK was established in 1938 whilst the Soviet series came about in 1944 so was there an element of plagiarism here?
Anyway, just for comparison here is my set including the Hero Mother and the two Motherhood Medals which I acquired in Berlin in the late '80s;
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."
Thanks Mark
A lovely set you have there
I would like to add the Hero Mother and Motherhood medals some time too
Nick
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