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Old 08-21-2012, 09:56 PM   #1
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87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

In Transbaikalia very old man dealt with the 35-year-old criminal who broke into his house in the village of Casanova to profit the military orders.
Late at night, a wounded pensioner with difficulty reached his neighbors. The old man, standing on the doorstep, was literally bleeding. Hand clutching the wound in his chest, barely living veteran admitted that he killed a man.

Police arrived following a call, found on the floor of Pavel Vasilyevich Veretelnikov's house a man's body.

- The investigation suggests that the veteran killed a thief in self-defense. It's preliminary found that on the night of May 21, previously convicted villager Paul P. entered the house of a veteran and demanded money and valuables, threatening him with a knife - said "Your Day" senior assistant SU IC on Transbaikalian edge Yegor ******.

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As it turned out, the villain with a knife in his hand reached into the house of lonely old man, not expecting to get an adequate resistance from ailing veteran. But the robber clearly underestimated the war hero.

Small savings for "to the death" and military awards - that's all the wealth of Pavel Vasilyevich.

But when the veteran realized he could lose his orders, he, as a young man at the front, went after the robber, ran, not even thinking about that he faced a bandit who will stop at nothing. Not expecting resistance, robber struck the old man with a knife in his chest, but the veteran contrived, snatched weapon and plunged the blade into stomach of a villain.

The wounded, bleeding old man somehow made it to the neighbors. Hardly living grandfather was taken to hospital.
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Re: 87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

He can chalk up another invader!

If only all the 87 year olds were so agile.
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Old 08-25-2012, 01:20 PM   #3
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Re: 87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

I love this type of story!

I do recognize the OGPW, but I do not recognize many of the medals he is wearing on the other side. I do see a couple of anniversary medals and a Labor Veteran Medal, but the rest, I do not recognize. Also, he seems to be missing a few things as well(VoG/VoJ and etc).
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Re: 87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

You may want to have a look through the "Umalatova" section of the Post-Soviet States.

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We have them all here at the Soviet Awards Forum! No need to stab anyone.
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Old 08-25-2012, 01:35 PM   #5
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Re: 87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

The whole top row with the same color ribbons has me. The all look like the Yugoslavian bravery medal to me.

The shock worker/5-year plan pins scattered on both sides and the military forces anniversary and GPW jubilee medals as well as a veteran of labor are the only ones I recognize.

Perhaps its just bad lighting.

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Old 08-25-2012, 01:43 PM   #6
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Re: 87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

Yep, there seems to be a lot of non-official stuff.
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Re: 87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

The fact of the matter is with the Soviet Union being gone 21 years a great deal of living veterans will have more post-Soviet awards than Soviet awards on their chests.

The Russian Federal and Departmental awards and also not the most common sights with all the organisations and Ms. Umalatova decorating anyone with the funds to be decorated.

If anyone intends to collect groups to Soviet Patriotic War Veterans that continued to live after the fall of the Soviet Union they will definitely have to familiarise themselves with not only the State but Organisational awards of all former Soviet nations. There are Medals that cover the entire CIS, some cover most, some cover single countries and some are even more specific.

Russia and Ukraine are the first nations I would suggest familiarising.

We have a rather large area dedicated to this post 1991 awards on the forum and these awards were and are awarded to veterans of the Patriotic War.
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Re: 87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

True, the GPW ended some 67 years ago and, assuming the veteran was 20 at the time, . . . well, you do the sums. And those who came out of the war with significant combat awards would, arguably, have been older. So they (1) must be getting pretty thin on the ground and (2) may have fallen victim since the end of the USSR to a desire to "augment" a slim and less impressive group of medals.
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Re: 87 y.o. veteran wins knife hand-to-hand combat to save his medals.

I am just suprised with all of the various commemorative medals, that he is lacking one of the most important WW2 medals, the Victory over Germany(or Japan) medal.
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He may not have done the term required for any of the "Victory" Medals but awarded commemoratives due to being in the "War Veterans" union later on whilst the Soviet Union was still around. Don't forget Umalatova also awarded OPWs too.

I am still fighting for a 84 year old WWII veteran to get his War Medal 67 years later.

As an update;

His OPWII'85 gives us a little insight... Pavel Vasil'evich Veretel'nikov, a 1925 Kazanovo native.

(Still not got the veteran his Medal yet either)
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