I have early Soviet-Russia badge "Graduate of the Finn Red Commander´s Courses".
The Badge is made years 1919-1922 (as far as i know). The badge is 5 x 3,4 centimeters and it is made of silver. There is a silver mark "84 zolotnik" and in the screwback plates words "18.GOC.FABRIKA".
The badge was given to the red finns, who escaped to the Soviet-Russia after the Finland's Civil War 1918. Some of them went to the St. Petersburg International Military School to come red commanders. In the badge there is a Finnish language words: "suom. pun. arm. sotk.". It means in English something like "Finns red army military school".
I like to know more of this badge and its history. I haven´t see many badges and they all have very small serial number: 5, 8, 13 and some have the number at all.
All information are welcome.
In the back of the badge there are three marks:
1. Russia silver mark (used about 1908-1917 and in Soviet Russia until 1922 ) ---> look at picture (scanned from the book, not from the badge).
2. Mark, which is similar as the mark in the picture, but there is not numbers "84".
3. Mark, where is the same Soviet Russia symbol as in badge, not "hammer and sickle", but the one which they used before 1922
--> sorry, I don´t know its name in English.
There is no number on my badge.
The history of my badge: In the years 1918-22 there were so called "Kindred Wars" between Finland and Soviet-Russia. This happened mostly in the Eastern Karelia area. Somewhere there Finnish soldiers got one Red Finn Commander as a prisoner. After they have killed him, one of them took this badge as "a souvenir".
Jussi-Pekka
The Badge is made years 1919-1922 (as far as i know). The badge is 5 x 3,4 centimeters and it is made of silver. There is a silver mark "84 zolotnik" and in the screwback plates words "18.GOC.FABRIKA".
The badge was given to the red finns, who escaped to the Soviet-Russia after the Finland's Civil War 1918. Some of them went to the St. Petersburg International Military School to come red commanders. In the badge there is a Finnish language words: "suom. pun. arm. sotk.". It means in English something like "Finns red army military school".
I like to know more of this badge and its history. I haven´t see many badges and they all have very small serial number: 5, 8, 13 and some have the number at all.
All information are welcome.
In the back of the badge there are three marks:
1. Russia silver mark (used about 1908-1917 and in Soviet Russia until 1922 ) ---> look at picture (scanned from the book, not from the badge).
2. Mark, which is similar as the mark in the picture, but there is not numbers "84".
3. Mark, where is the same Soviet Russia symbol as in badge, not "hammer and sickle", but the one which they used before 1922
--> sorry, I don´t know its name in English.
There is no number on my badge.
The history of my badge: In the years 1918-22 there were so called "Kindred Wars" between Finland and Soviet-Russia. This happened mostly in the Eastern Karelia area. Somewhere there Finnish soldiers got one Red Finn Commander as a prisoner. After they have killed him, one of them took this badge as "a souvenir".
Jussi-Pekka
