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Hi and welcome to the forum..I am sure one of our members, probably from Russia, can help answer your question on this post-Soviet nationalist group.
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Well, I don't know how "anti-communist" it is - the lower date seems to be 1794-1945 and the communists were firmly in control 1918-1945... The top reads "Russian Empire" in old-style, pre-Revolution letters.
The inverted tri-color chevron was a Russian Civil War chevron worn by anti-Red forces if memory serves me correctly.
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desantnik Wrote:Well, I don't know how "anti-communist" it is - the lower date seems to be 1794-1945 and the communists were firmly in control 1918-1945... The top reads "Russian Empire" in old-style, pre-Revolution letters.
The inverted tri-color chevron was a Russian Civil War chevron worn by anti-Red forces if memory serves me correctly.
I´m sure of having seen the same black patch on ultranationalist orthodox groups. I´ll look for the reference.
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
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Desantnik: You are absolutely correct about the chevrons.
Those are the style worn by the counter-revolutionary forces fighting for the Tsar. :)
Perhaps it is a very anti-communist dembel uniform?
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the uniform on its own aside from the badges, what is it?
it looks like a digital kinda camo , witch only came in to use in the west the end of the 90's.
so it would definitely be after soviet ain't it ?
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07-01-2009, 11:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-01-2009, 12:05 PM by Panzerwerk.)
The Uniform is the standard 2 piece KLMK which was introduced around 1975, it is Soviet era , that is what makes this interesting , are and were these groups active in the 1980's and 90's ??
I was told the ultra nationalists would remove the date on purpose to show the Empire was still alive and well !
The date on the patch is machine cut , not hand removed , so the patch was made that way on purpose , the patch is of some kind of vinyl material , the chevron is cloth .
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This pattern and cut was introduced around 1975 , I have a question for our Russian friends , Did these kind of groups gain in popularity or grow in numbers during the Afghan war ??
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how cool ,, the western country's did really only catch up to this good digital camo in the beginning of 2000's.
that is nearly 60 years later !!!
How stunning.
