Medal for the Defence of Kiev

[Woolgar]

Just added this Campaign medal to my collection

It a nice minty example

Nick

[Mint]

Very nice medal -

I see that your ribbon has the blue stripe to the left of the red stripe, but I have been told that ribbon should have the blue stripe to the right of the red stripe, does anyone know which side is accurate or does it matter?

[Marcel Banziger]

Blue should be right of red indeed but it happened that ribbons were put on the wrong way.

[Watchdog]

I think it even more likely that the Kiev ribbon would be found the wrong way around as it was issued so long after the war ( easy to change round though). I was lucky enough to find one for my collection back in 1989 in Berlin just before the wall came down and even now it still looks the odd one out because of the shiny modern finish.

Nice example and essential to the set

Regards

Mark

[Marcel Banziger]

Here's mine, also in nearly mint condition. Btw, I wonder why this medal only appeared in 1961 and not much earlier like all other campaign medals??

[Woolgar]

Here's mine, also in nearly mint condition. Btw, I wonder why this medal only appeared in 1961 and not much earlier like all other campaign medals??

Very nice Marcel

I was going to ask the same question

Nick

[Dom]

The medal is published under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev.
Joseph Stalin has always refused his main argument is that the city has fallen far too fast

[Marcel Banziger]

Thanks a lot for the explanation. Sounds like Stalin indeed hahaha