03-15-2002, 03:04 PM
Leonid was a very good looking young major-general. Also Stalin said once: "Who is this cute Moldavian guy" (of course Brezhnev was no Romanian from Moldavia, but at this time party-boss there).
By the way, because Tal quoted Zhores Medvedev. In an old magazine article from this historian about the career of Brezhnev, he writes that Brezhnev showed at the the Victory Parade by far not so much orders and medals as the other generals. This is a little bit a superfical approach, because Leonid was a polit-commissar and for them it was hardly possible to get nice awards. So if look at Leonid#s breast: 2 Red Banners and a Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2cl - that's quite extra-ordinary for a polit-worker in the Red Army. If you look at the magnificant work of Nikita Chruscev during Stalingrad and Kursk as a polit-commissar (he was a strange and queer politician afterwards), he should have deserved a Order of Victory. But he never got a real big award for military merits. So our friend Leonid knew also in the early stage of his career how to organize great awards, for falling one time into the water of the Black Sea. I think, Leonid's second Red Banner doesen't have a "2", I am right?
You don't have a photograph which shows us the 5 gold stars?
Regards from Vienna
By the way, because Tal quoted Zhores Medvedev. In an old magazine article from this historian about the career of Brezhnev, he writes that Brezhnev showed at the the Victory Parade by far not so much orders and medals as the other generals. This is a little bit a superfical approach, because Leonid was a polit-commissar and for them it was hardly possible to get nice awards. So if look at Leonid#s breast: 2 Red Banners and a Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2cl - that's quite extra-ordinary for a polit-worker in the Red Army. If you look at the magnificant work of Nikita Chruscev during Stalingrad and Kursk as a polit-commissar (he was a strange and queer politician afterwards), he should have deserved a Order of Victory. But he never got a real big award for military merits. So our friend Leonid knew also in the early stage of his career how to organize great awards, for falling one time into the water of the Black Sea. I think, Leonid's second Red Banner doesen't have a "2", I am right?
You don't have a photograph which shows us the 5 gold stars?
Regards from Vienna
