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Old 04-24-2007, 04:30 PM   #1
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The medal described on post number 13 is for sale on ebay for a modest price of US $325.00.....

This is the first medal of this kind that I see on ebay.
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Old 04-24-2007, 06:04 PM   #2
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Tal,

It's very cheaply made, but legit. Comes with an equally cheap document.

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Old 09-15-2007, 09:45 AM   #3
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Soviet Spanish Civil War Veteran badges

These badges are exceedingly rare, awarded to surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War. If memory serves me correctly, the silver badge was awarded at the 30th anniversary of the war (1966-69) and the gold was obviously for the 50th (late 80's).

I have a JOMSA article somewhere listing the number of recipients and each badge was somewhere in the hundreds. Not hard to imagine the low number of people surviving the Spanish Civil War itself, purges, and Patriotic War, let alone 50 years.
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Old 09-16-2007, 03:37 PM   #4
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These badges are exceedingly rare, awarded to surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War. If memory serves me correctly, the silver badge was awarded at the 30th anniversary of the war (1966-69) and the gold was obviously for the 50th (late 80's)
Do you know were these badges awarded also to foreigners? I mean other than Soviets.

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Old 09-16-2007, 04:05 PM   #5
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Yes, I have one (30th, documented) to a German (East German, of course, by the time he got it).
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Old 09-21-2007, 03:44 PM   #6
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I found the article by the late Professor Victorov-Orlov in JOMSA volume 52 #6 - The Badges of the Soviet Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. For the 30th reunion in 1966 there were 478 veterans still living and in 1986, for the 50th reunion - only 98.
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Old 12-05-2009, 04:47 PM   #7
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Re: Soviet Spanish Civil War Veteran badges

The 1967 badge (he got two of them)
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Re: Soviet Spanish Civil War Veteran badges

and the document.

From the few (!) bits of the group to the East German Generalmajor Ewald Munschke that came my way. Other awards? To the four winds. :(
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Old 12-05-2009, 11:50 PM   #9
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Re: Soviet Spanish Civil War Veteran badges

Your document appears to have Marshal Timoshenko's original signature too - nice! And also indicative of the few awardings of this award - I can't see him signing hundreds of these...
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Old 12-06-2009, 03:04 AM   #10
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Re: Soviet Spanish Civil War Veteran badges

Hi Ed,

You did well in securing this nice document. Well done !! :thumbsup

Cheers.

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