For the Capture of New York

[ericlida]

What would happen if USSR did not collapse? :confused:
The medal “For Occupation of New York” :laff:chuckle

[deValcourt]

Mighty funny Photoshopping (I hope ).

Besides, the USSR didn't "collapse" - it underwent global downsizing and management reorganization to meet the need for proactive development and forward thinking necessarily to resolve internal issues arising from the current overly outsourced business plan.

Phillip

[medals73]

Is this being presented as anything real, as anything more than a sad fantasy joke?

Ignoring the reality of Soviet policy . . . .

Praise be the Gods of Photoshop (as has already been suggested)?

[ericlida]

Is this being presented as anything real, as anything more than a sad fantasy joke?

Ignoring the reality of Soviet policy . . . .

Praise be the Gods of Photoshop (as has already been suggested)?

I don't know either.
I know for sure, that if the medal might be a fantasy, but dreams of former USSR Government were not fantasies :thumbsdown

[Esteban_cool]

We all saw it in Red Alert 2...

[Commissar]

Haha, that is wonderful! How funny!

I would love to hear more about the supposed WW3 medals though.

[Simon]

This medal has to be a joke. What Soviet artist with a shred of sanity would have put Iwo Jima memorial on the medal.

[Greg Collins]

Obviously this medal is a joke... at what point did the Soviet army- or any other army for that matter- have enough personnel to occupy the US? Come to think of it, at what point have we ever had enough personnel in our armed forces to occupy a country so vast as the USSR? I believe both of our countries were purely set to launch a nuclear strike in reaction to a launch by the other side; no winners but, hopefully, some survivors. Occupation??? If anyone in the DOD suggested such a thing they should have been fired on the spot for being just plain stupid and unfit for the job... look at the problems we had in Vietnam and are having in Afghanistan and Iraq; look at the problems the USSR had in Afghanistan. Those movies like "Red Dawn" and "Red Alert" pander to the same crock of crap that my generation was fed by watching the old black and white nuclear films and then told to get under our school desks and put our heads between our knees- they should have added "and kiss your dead ass goodbye". Thankfully cool and reasonable heads on both sides prevailed and we're all here now to enjoy this goofy medal and appreciate the fact that the DDR did not have reason to award those medals stored in the bunker.

Any real hopes for a Communist government in the US was based on an American Communist takeover of the US government- not from the outside, but from within and not necessarily through violence, but violence was not completely discounted as a means. To this end, the Kremlin did give financial support to the CPUSA up until 1991. For those that have them, the parade films (dvds) of the 1987 Parade at Red Square and the 1989 40th Anniversary of the DDR both feature Gus Hall, the General Secretary of the CPUSA, on the reviewing stand- the Red Square dvd has a short interview with him.

[Greg Collins]

Obviously this medal is a joke... at what point did the Soviet army- or any other army for that matter- have enough personnel to occupy the US? Come to think of it, at what point have we ever had enough personnel in our armed forces to occupy a country so vast as the USSR? I believe both of our countries were purely set to launch a nuclear strike in reaction to a launch by the other side; no winners but, hopefully, some survivors. Occupation??? If anyone in the DOD suggested such a thing they should have been fired on the spot for being just plain stupid and unfit for the job... look at the problems we had in Vietnam and are having in Afghanistan and Iraq; look at the problems the USSR had in Afghanistan. Those movies like "Red Dawn" and "Red Alert" pander to the same crock of crap that my generation was fed by watching the old black and white nuclear films and then told to get under our school desks and put our heads between our knees- they should have added "and kiss your dead ass goodbye". Thankfully cool and reasonable heads on both sides prevailed and we're all here now to enjoy this goofy medal and appreciate the fact that the DDR did not have reason to award those medals stored in the bunker.

[ericlida]

OK my friends, I found a solution to this "medal"
It is just a keychain adverizing the computer game "World in Conflict" :thumbsup:chuckle