Badge "25 Years Of Victory Over Germany In The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945".

[desantnik]

Originally Posted by Kirchgoens

They come in a couple different flavors, and I've always wondered why. I figured it was because of different points of manufacture.

My theory is different contractors. There is the notable "heavy" variant that some believe were either awarded to VIPs like generals or were just the earliest version and thus made the nicest.

We forget that they had to produce millions of these badges in a short time period. At least with Red Stars, for example, they awarded two million over something like 20 years (+).